enviousness

Example Sentences

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Mr. Hooker was apparently examining the elegant furniture and luxurious accommodation with his usual resentful enviousness.

From Clarence by Harte, Bret

Turning I left the rose unto her pride,   The lily to her enviousness, And soon upon the grassy ground espied   A daisy all companionless.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

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

From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice

"Do not give way to the enviousness of your sister's lot," he admonished her, very grave, in his deep voice.

From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh