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enviousness



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They tell us, also, that Catulus himself alleged this in vindication of his honor, accusing, in various ways, the enviousness of Marius.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

It is they who seem to have the enviousness, to be torn with desire to get what isn't theirs.

From Christine by Alice Cholmondeley

And was it not something like enviousness which gripped his heart, as if of a privilege denied to him alone of all the men that had ever passed through this world?

From Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad

And it is amusing, though sad, to gee how such folk take for granted in others the same pretty enviousness which they feel in themselves.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

For that reason, perhaps, being free from that enviousness that characterizes so many girls, she was a beauty-lover.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Rena I. Halsey


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