enviousness
Example Sentences
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“Marse Dave Henry is sholy a lieutender in de company, an’ mistiss she say he’d a done been a giner’l ef dey wa’nt so much enviousness in de army.”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
"It's nothing but enviousness," he said in a lowered tone, which had a stimulating effect upon my wearied hearing.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad
"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 Joseph Conrad
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 William Watson
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
