envied

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At the center of The Loved and Envied shines Ruby Maclean, a 53-year-old beauty of angelic character, much too good for the decadent and useless idlers who surround her.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Loved and Envied scatters its effect among too many characters, and despite a glossy prose surface often succumbs to lip-trembling sentimentality.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the Envied became a Wazir; and after a while the Sultan also died and the lieges said, "Whom shall we make King?" and all cried, "The Wazir."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

They say, O Afrit," answered I, "that Story of the Envier and the Envied.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

The first story, the Envier and the Envied, is very common in folk-lore, and has been sometimes used in modern fairy-tales.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir