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Sentences starting with envy

Envy and ill will would also have a share in this affair, and the usually benevolent King knew no mercy where crime against his own person was concerned. [10]
Envy not the old man the tranquillity of his existence, nor yet blame him if it sometimes looks like apathy. [6]
Envy is defined as hatred of another for some excellence or success; and Bacon insists (Essay ix. [1]

Sentences ending with envy

We admire them without envy. [4]
For the first time in his life Gering had a pang of jealousy and envy. [11]
But what was the good of that when one had passed beyond the reach of envy? [4]
At the end of this row of hotels is a fine granite Casino, spacious, solid, with wide verandas, and a tennis-court--such a building as even Newport might envy. [4]
But Mary felt not the smallest movement of envy. [10]
Their ridicule would naturally appear to him to arise from envy. [4]
I wanted to kill him, for very envy. [5]
The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with envy. [5]
Already she has had her choice from a thousand a year up, and I tell you our English ladies are green with envy. [9]
Ah shall jost expah of envy! [8]

Short sentences using envy

I just envy her. [4]
Was there no envy? [4]
I shall not envy him. [10]

More example sentences with the word envy in them

Can I tell you?--I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. [4]
All I envy you is your friends. [11]
I used to wonder if, in the Brandon attitude of mind at this period, there were not just a little envy of such unclouded prosperity. [4]
Share thy happiness with thy neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. [2]
Where Conspicuousness carries with it a Power which, by the light of our own observation and experience, we are able to measure and comprehend, I think our envy of the possessor is as deep and as passionate as is that of any other nation. [5]
For some days, with a certain sense of isolation and a tinge of envy which she would not acknowledge, she had been watching a group of well-dressed, clean-looking people galloping off on horseback or filling the six-seated buckboards. [9]
But how they will envy Pretty Pierre! [11]
But, after all, who knows whether the good luck we envy others is great or small? [10]
It is you who have made this city the envy of the cities of the world. [5]
Vaudreuil and Montcalm were at variance, and Vaudreuil had, through his personal hatred and envy of Montcalm, signed the death-warrant of the colony by writing to the colonial minister that Montcalm's agents, going for succour, were not to be trusted. [11]
Now the hour was approaching when she would be obliged to confess to him what she still strove to deem a peerless favour of Fate, for which future generations would envy her. [10]
The Athenian was warmly welcomed by many of the group, a fact which seems strange when we remember that courtiers are of all men the most prone to envy, and a royal favorite always the most likely object to excite their ill will. [10]
No, this nocturnal wanderer had left no hour of bliss behind him; and if his demeanor was calculated to rouse any feeling it was not envy, but pity. [10]
This must be vastly different from any other if it is not full of cliques and gossip and envy underneath. [4]
She was amused, too, by the thought that Lise's envy would be modified by the prospect of a heightened social status; since Lise, it will be remembered, had her Providence likewise. [9]
Often I used to watch him with a certain envy as he stood in the doorway, his hands in his pockets, and greeted fellow-merchant and banker with his genuine and dignified directness. [9]
It brought envy to the speaker, a kind of glory; and he basked in it and was happy through all his veins. [5]
They all allude to the envy and detraction to which he was subject, and which must have amounted to a storm of abuse and perhaps ridicule; and they all tax the English vocabulary to extol Smith, his deeds, and his works. [4]
Now she began to look at it askance, as a fatal gift; and to pity, rather than envy, its possessors. [9]
He had said to himself many times that even Armand de la Riviere would envy him. [11]
He remembered the time, twenty- five years ago, when he had proposed to this babbling woman, and had been rejected with scorn--to his subsequent satisfaction; for there was no visible reason why any one should envy the Notary, in his house or out of it. [11]
The two or three who had really been on a sort of familiar footing with him found themselves objects of admiring interest with the public and of envy with their shopmates. [5]
I could envy these poor creatures! [10]
I do envy these Europeans the comfort they take. [5]
Not a rough there but will envy you. [5]
I rely upon them to show myself to you as I was and am, not as envy and slander describe me.--The little ivory casket, Iras! [10]
How I envy them that best of blessings, only may they not also go before me! [10]
It rests on the yard for awhile, and they can look at it all they like, and envy it, and thank it for its message. [5]
In spite of the slight antagonism and envy of which I was conscious,--that she was thus superbly in command of the situation, that she had developed her pinions and was thus splendidly able to use them,--my admiration for her had never been greater. [9]
A lady entering the next box shot a glance of feminine envy at Natasha. [2]
I don't envy the man who holds a contrary opinion; he'll be ashamed of it some day. [11]
Pity is for the living, Envy is for the dead. [5]
Who was it that after my first great successes, when base envy clouded many an hour of my life, rejoiced with me as though he himself had won the laurel? [10]
She's one to tame, sir, and I don't envy no young gentleman the task. [9]
Having finished his tale about the enchanting Polish lady, the captain asked Pierre if he had ever experienced a similar impulse to sacrifice himself for love and a feeling of envy of the legitimate husband. [2]
My eyes almost sprang out of my head at the sight, and I could have cried out aloud with envy and vexation, at having to stand there in my ragged sheep-skin excluded from all competition. [10]
At last he spoke: "Verily, Croesus, I the great god, the 'sun of righteousness,' 'the son of Neith,' 'the lord of warlike glory,' as the Egyptians call me, am tempted to envy thee, dethroned and plundered as thou art. [10]
Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature? [6]
He made himself so killingly funny that he was the envy and admiration of the whole mangy rabble. [5]
Think of the short suffering which now and then embitters for you the sweet cup of life, as being the ring of Polykrates, with which you appease the envy of the gods who have given you so much. [10]
I have never seen a man with less envy, or more cheerfulness, or so contented with as little reason for being so. [4]
And because he seems to care but little whether he tells the truth or not, so he scares the reader or excites his envy or his admiration. [5]
He ventured to say that there were few men in the hall who at the bottom of their hearts did not envy and even honour our success. [9]
He paced his room, a prey to jealousy and envy and rage, which his calm temperament had kept him from feeling in their intensity up to this miserable hour. [6]
The man who possesses that kingdom need not envy the very gods themselves. [10]
Now envy can point at us with spiteful joy--and a minute ago I was praising this day! [10]
And an older person than John might envy the free life of these wanderers, who paid neither rent nor taxes, and yet enjoyed all the delights of nature. [4]
Boys of his own size pretended not to know he had been away at all; but they were consuming with envy, nevertheless. [5]
There is one other person, now that I think of it, who may be having a good time to-day, though I do not know that I envy him. [4]
In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy. [5]
For the sake of those eyes you forgot all else; all that was rough in her, and her wide nose with the deep dent just in the middle, and such hair on her lip as many a young stripling might envy her. [10]
As he thought of his wife, of whose death this day was the anniversary, he felt inclined to envy her. [10]
In the presence of his nephew, there grew the envy of a man who knew that youth was passing while every hot instinct and passion remained. [11]
A slight feeling of envy stole into his heart; how rarely he himself was permitted to pursue undisturbed, and without interruption, the scientific subjects, in which alone he found pleasure. [10]
They are full of envy and malice, editors are. [5]
Mrs. Corporal does not envy the reputation of General Sheridan; she knows very well who really won Five Forks, for she has heard the story a hundred times, and will hear it a hundred times more with apparently unabated interest. [4]
You who did not envy me in my happiness will help me to bear misfortune. [10]
But Philip could no longer envy his former rival the wife he had won. [10]
But he had no envy of him, and he evinced no desire to imitate him. [4]
The word justification moved her admiration--and envy, too, I thought. [5]
The word justification moved her admiration--and envy too, I thought. [5]
Moreover, poor church mouse though I am, I sometimes give them one thing and another to guess, and I haven't far to travel to learn what envy is. [10]
If he was more successful than others in trying to get rich, surely a great deal of admiration was mingled with the envy of his career. [4]
Nay, more and more since I am raised to such fortune as thousands may envy me; inasmuch as my granduncle purposes to make me his heir by form of law. [10]
It turned Brer Merlin green with envy and spite, which was a great satisfaction to me. [5]
When the clothing-store merchant wished to consume the corner grocery man with envy, he bought secured seats in the front row and let the thing be known. [5]
But like all men who achieve success, he became an object of envy and suspicion. [5]
The man owes me a service, for my father commissioned him and his assistants to execute the mosaic pavement in the new arcade he was having built in the capitol; and subsequently, when the envy of rival artists threatened his life, my father saved him. [10]
However improbable it may seem, I have no reason to dislike or envy people who have more than they know what to do with. [9]
He would always manage to have a rusty bolt to scrub while his boat tarried at our town, and he would sit on the inside guard and scrub it, where we could all see him and envy him and loathe him. [5]
One Sunday he made himself the envy of all the youth and the talk of all the admiring village, by reciting three thousand verses of Scripture without missing a word; then he went off the very next day and got drowned. [5]
Our Lord is Love itself; neither hatred nor envy are known to Him as they are to the gods of the Heathen; and when he afflicts us, it is as the wise and tender pastor of our souls, and for our good. [10]
I should have liked to howl out with shame and envy and vexation. [10]
And we all liked him too; perhaps, because no one could really envy him. [10]
In their monotonous life, devoid of occupation, envy easily becomes hatred, and the gratification of these evil passions is the only compensation which the poor creatures can obtain for the total absence of love and loss of freedom. [10]
Not a few joined this party, for larger possession excite envy perhaps even more frequently than greater fame. [10]
I only say it in envy of his indestructible youth, anyway. [5]
Mr. Bentley lives in a world of his own; I envy him with all my heart, I love and admire him, he cheers and soothes me when I am with him. [9]
The first lines, I think, ran thus: "'Let others envy Caesar's lot; To wander through Britannia's dales And be snowed up in Scythian vales Is Caesar's taste--I'd rather not? [10]
Behold with envy how thankfully two mortals can bless the gift of life. [10]
No envy moved him, his soul was free from malice. [11]
I don't envy him, for whoever enters life an orphan is spared the pain of becoming one afterward. [10]
One might envy him the profit--if it were not your father! [10]
The pat made him proud and happy, and the exultation inside of him shone out through his eyes; and his mates were there to see the pat and envy it and wish they could have that glory. [5]
The Emperor perceived her first, beckoned kindly to her, and, after conversing with her for a while so graciously that it aroused the envy of the other ladies in the tent, he said eagerly: "Not sung amiss for your Ratisbon, I should think. [10]
He won all hearts by his perfect modesty, but even more perhaps by a certain air of suffering and melancholy which protected the wealthy merchant against the envy of detractors. [10]
She keeps the happy mean between envy and malicious satisfaction. [10]
Some of these had grievances against Mr. Worthington or Mr. Flint; others, in more prosperous circumstances, might have been moved by envy of these gentlemen; still others might have been actuated largely by righteous resentment at what they deemed oppression by wealth and power. [9]
Some of these had fluted pilasters and cornices, the envy of many a modern architect, and fan-shaped windows in dormer and doorway. [9]
The successful competitor gets the prize which I have before mentioned, and an abundance of applause and envy along with it. [5]
Whether it was from respect, envy, or anticipation, he did not know. [2]
But at the first toll-house, while the toll-keeper was changing some money, I experienced the envy of the gods which hitherto I had known only in Schiller's ballad. [10]
Zopyrus was the first to break the silence by saying, as he drew a long breath: "I really envy you, Bartja. [10]
Physical--Passions and appetites, fear, depraved will, pride, envy, deceit, hatred, revenge, sin, disease, death. [5]
We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. [5]
In this endeavor every obstacle has been thrown in our path that the envy and revenge of a few disaffected students could devise. [5]
Bitter tears of envy, so it was said, were shed in the other booths. [9]
It may be envy, it may be worship, doubtless it is a mixture of both--and it does not satisfy its thirst with one view, or even noticeably diminish it. [5]
No one would envy you, even if your fellow-captive and keeper were younger and less gloomy than your father is! [10]
The very angels envy you, and wish they could establish a government like it in heaven. [5]

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