Use jealousy in a sentence
Sentences starting with jealousy
- Jealousy ran red-hot through Tom's veins. [5]
- Jealousy will torture her, and--I know her well--perhaps no one will ever render the siren a greater service than I did when I compelled her to leave the city. [10]
Sentences ending with jealousy
- And as he watched her, in silence, the colour that flowed and ebbed in her cheeks registered the coming and going of memories; of incidents in her life hidden from him, arousing in the man the torture of jealousy. [9]
- Both had wronged the woman, but Villiard most, for he had let her die because of jealousy. [11]
- As Orlando talked, the old man was seized by terrible hatred and jealousy. [11]
- We read between the lines of his own eulogies of himself, that there was a widespread skepticism about his greatness and his achievements, which he attributed to jealousy. [4]
- But in another sense the dead man was not himself; and in that case all compliments and affection lavished there were wasted, and a sufficient basis for jealousy. [5]
- She fancied she saw Cambyses holding out his hand as if to ask forgiveness for his hastiness and foolish jealousy. [10]
- For all these reasons, he decided to pick a quarrel with Miss Wackles without delay, and casting about for a pretext determined in favour of groundless jealousy. [12]
- Even where these poisonous kinds of food seem to be useful, we should still regard them with great jealousy. [3]
- The whole scene passed like a shadow in the dusk before Ledscha's eyes, half dimmed by uneasiness, perplexity, and suddenly inflamed jealousy. [10]
- Philip had a pang of disgust and jealousy. [4]
Short sentences using jealousy
- Apparently her jealousy never sleeps. [5]
- To arouse his jealousy? [10]
- You know what jealousy means. [10]
- Jealousy. [9]
- Jealousy, perhaps. [11]
- Jealousy, oh! [5]
Sentences containing jealousy two or more times
- She was continually tormented by jealousy of her daughter, and now that jealousy concerned a subject near to her own heart, she could not reconcile herself to the idea. [2]
- Jealousy, petty, unworthy jealousy is at the bottom of it! [10]
More example sentences with the word jealousy in them
- When she gets wicked or mad enough to hate, either through jealousy or because she cannot love where she would, she is merciless. [11]
- And the jealousy which, fool that she was, she had desired to arouse in her lover, what abundant nourishment it would derive from the events which had occurred on her return from the festival! [10]
- The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. [12]
- Even the jealousy which had clouded the happiness of her love like a fleeting, rapidly changing shadow, she believed she had now renounced forever. [10]
- With that ingenuity which always accompanies jealousy, he tortured every circumstance of the last few weeks so as to make it square with this belief. [6]
- What those wishes were Katharina knew only too well; the probability of their accomplishment had roused her fierce jealousy and made her hate Heliodora. [10]
- But I am very willing to confess a great jealousy of many agents, and I could almost wish to see the Materia Medica so classed as to call suspicion upon certain ones among them. [3]
- Yet when she turned her face toward him, and his ardent gaze rested yearningly upon her, she felt that the opportunity had now come to carry out her half-forgotten intention of arousing the jealousy of her royal lover. [10]
- His purpose was to make some arrangement with Heinz Schorlin about the lost estate and obtain definite knowledge concerning his quarrel with him, of which he remembered nothing except that intoxication and jealousy had carried him further than would have happened otherwise. [10]
- Was this due to jealousy or merely wounded vanity at being supplanted in a heart which he firmly believed belonged, though only in bitter hate, solely to him? [10]
- He went on to influence her jealousy by praising Paula's charm and loftiness, excusing himself in his own eyes by persuading himself that a lover was justified in inducing his betrothed to save his happiness and his honor. [10]
- He had said to Ian Stafford that he would do nothing, but, with the maggot of revenge and jealousy in their brains, men could not be trusted from one moment to another. [11]
- For the first time in his life Gering had a pang of jealousy and envy. [11]
- Her feelings towards this thing did not assume the proportions of jealousy or fear; they were merely alert, vaguely disquieting. [9]
- She had attributed this latter partly to jealousy of her, for no one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. [5]
- Every possible motive, then,--his interest, his jealousy, his longing for revenge, and now his fears for his own safety,--urged him to regard the happening of a certain casualty as a matter of simple necessity. [6]
- Now I know that it was not merely my old deceitful foe, jealousy, which warned me against her. [10]
- Care had been taken to provide for his personal safety, for the attack might perhaps yet prove to have been connected with the jealousy of the Biamite husbands. [10]
- Resentment against the Swiss, hatred, and jealousy, had made him a knave, and at the same time the most shortsighted of fools. [10]
- Between Viking and Sunburst there was a great jealousy and rivalry; for the salmon-fishers thought that the mills, though on a tributary stream, interfered, by the sawdust spilled in the river, with the travel and spawning of the salmon. [11]
- It was exquisite sport; still, in one respect it did not fulfil her intentions, for Paula gave no sign of suffering the agonies of jealousy which Katharina had hoped to excite in her. [10]
- Surprise, unrest, nay, some little jealousy had been mingled with her delight at Gorgo's singing. [10]
- Suppose that she should profit by the wish he showed so plainly, and through jealousy bind the man whom she loved anew and more firmly than ever? [10]
- But, by instinct, she knew also that Leicester, through jealousy, had increased the complication; and, fretful under the long influence he had had upon her, she steadily lessened intercourse with him. [11]
- That very hour she had heard again the story of the nude stone woman in the shed, and her heart was full of jealousy, fury, and suspicion. [11]
- He might have said he loved her for it--with a kind of love which can be spoken of without blushing or giving cause to blush, or reason for jealousy, anger, or apprehension. [11]
- 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]
- But still I resolved to nourish the king's jealousy, and use it as a means of rendering this impudent creature harmless, as she seemed likely to succeed in supplanting us both in his favor. [10]
- The Young Doctor realized that her reply had meanings which would escape the understanding of the Mayor, and her apprehensive glance had told him of the gruesome jealousy of this old man at her side. [11]
- If I should proclaim that they were protests against the scholastic tendency to shift the total responsibility of all human action from the Infinite to the finite, I might alarm the jealousy of the cabinet-keepers of our doctrinal museums. [6]
- If he could prevent it, there should be, where he was concerned, no jealousy, such as Mazarine had shown towards the Mayor, in connection with this helpless, exquisite creature in the grip of hard fate. [11]
- He says "the President's overweening jealousy would admit of no exercise at arms, or fortifications but the boughs of trees cast together in the form of a half-moon by the extraordinary pains and diligence of Captain Kendall. [4]
- The selfishness in politics, the jealousy in letters, the bickering in art, the bitterness in theology, are all as nothing compared to the sweet charities, sacrifices, and deferences of private life. [4]
- She knew her own heart too well to fear that any jealousy might mingle with her new apprehensions. [6]
- It was not only jealousy which showed him this young, clever, brave, and extremely ambitious prince in a more unfavourable light than before. [10]
- In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy. [5]
- She was urged on by a fever of love and hatred and jealousy, which alternately possessed her. [5]
- Hers was one of those volcanic natures, defying calculation and ordinary conceptions of life; having the fullest capacity for all the elementary passions--hatred, love, cruelty, delight, loyalty, revolt, jealousy. [11]
- He was conscious of the sting of jealousy. [5]
- The enthusiastic shouts of the populace, the overflowing love of his mother and sister, and above all, the warm encomiums expressed by Nitetis, had excited a jealousy which his pride had never allowed hitherto. [10]
- Others, from motives of love or jealousy, would not part from their husbands. [10]
- But the eyes of jealousy are ever the sharpest; my head apprentice, who was madly in love with the maid, betrayed the plot, and then, Mistress Margery, were things said and done--things concerning which I had best hold my peace. [10]
- The sorrowful feeling of being misunderstood and unjustly condemned, mingled with fear of the terrible fate to which she might be sentenced by the omnipotent sovereign, whose clear intellect was clouded by jealousy and the resentment of a mother's wounded heart, paralyzed her tongue. [10]
- We have just now, as it seems to me, more important matters to discuss than the jealousy of each other shown by artists--and in my opinion, by learned men too. [10]
- The great point now was to excite the king's jealousy again, and ruin the Egyptian at one blow. [10]
- If the Italian novels with which she was familiar did not lie, not only jealousy, but apparent indifference on the part of the beloved object, fanned the heart of man to burst into fresh flames. [10]
- And should he not recognise in his aversion to every one of her suitors, and now to the aristocratic young Philotas, a feeling which resembled jealousy? [10]
- His conscience could not endure any more of Amy's grateful happiness, and his jealousy could bear no more of the other distress. [5]
- It was only necessary to hold her impetuous temper in check, and profit by the jealousy which had now been aroused in Charles's mind. [10]
- How easily jealousy might have led to a fatal crime one whose wish promptly becomes action, unless she curbs the undue zeal of her living tools! [10]
- Love is the master-key, he went on thinking, love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. [6]
- By good fortune little harm arose therefrom, since all who knew my mother loved her, and were willing to give her credit for the doubt; many, indeed, thought the story sprang from Grafton's jealousy and hatred. [9]
- The jealousy which lay covered up under his surface-thoughts took this opportunity to break out. [6]
- Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: 'Let him do what he pleases,' she used to say of me. [2]
- King Philip's petty jealousy opposed his wishes, poisoned his hopes, and barred the realization of his dreams. [10]
- She provoked the jealousy of the elderly magnate and told him what she had told her other suitor; that is, she put the matter so that the only way for him to obtain a right over her was to marry her. [2]
- One is, that it represents the jealousy existing between the colonies--the two most important colonies of Australasia. [5]
- There is nothing invidious in this, as I am the oldest of the company, and no claim is less likely to excite jealousy than that of priority of birth. [6]
- Of M. Fille's influence over his daughter and her love of his companionship, Jean Jacques had no jealousy whatever. [11]
- No passion stirred in him, no jealousy, no anger. [11]
- She told Paula how Orion had wooed her, how much she loved him, how her heart had been tortured by jealousy of her, Paula, and how she had allowed herself to be led away into bearing false witness before the judges. [10]
- It was the hot torrent of Polykarp's words that had first thrown the spark into his soul, which jealousy and the dread of having to abandon Sirona to another, had soon fanned into a consuming flame. [10]
- So complete was his absorption in this task that Janet, although she had resented the insinuating pressure of his former attitude toward her, felt a paradoxical sensation of jealousy. [9]
- Tenderness, masterful in him now, matched the absence of joy and blunted the knife-edge of entering jealousy. [13]
- Myrtle's jealousy for her minister's sincerity was roused. [6]
- If Wolf lived--and he desired it from his heart--this act, which he appeared to have committed in a fit of blind jealousy, should do him no injury. [10]
- She ought to have seen that Joel Mazarine was possessed of a jealousy as unreasoning as that of an animal; she ought to have discouraged Louise's kindnesses. [11]
- Pompey would rather have gone to Egypt himself, but the jealousy of the others would not permit it. [10]
- A jealousy and hatred as terrible as ever possessed a man were on him. [11]
- The unwholesome three had shared his moral lapse with wide-open eyes, and were in no sense victims of his; but, disregarding their responsibility, they had, from sheer jealousy, wrecked his past, and, to their own surprise, had wrecked themselves as well. [11]
- She, whose heart had remained free from jealousy of the woman who stood between her and the man she loved, like a solid bulwark erected by Fate itself, was now suddenly overmastered by this passion. [10]
- True, she, too, had often allowed herself to display passionate tenderness, but always only to torture him with reproaches and demands inspired by her jealousy, suspicion, and wounded pride. [10]
- He was too fond of outdoor life, of racing and hunting and shooting and polo and travel, to have his eye unnerved by any such foolishness as jealousy. [11]
- It suited the eighteenth-century conditions of a little English-speaking confederacy along the seaboard, far removed from the world's strife and jealousy. [9]
- Hurt vanity and egotism and jealousy had prevented him from luring her back to that fine atmosphere in which he had hypnotised her so few years ago. [11]
- All their former disharmony and her own jealousy recurred to her mind. [2]
- Her royal lover deprived her of even the possibility of rousing him by jealousy from the consciousness of the secure possession of her person. [10]
- Only in the case of a few need she fear that jealousy and envy had taken possession of them. [10]
- With this thought came a flaming suggestion--Ditmar should see her with this man Rolfe, she would make him scorch with the fires of jealousy. [9]
- Howbeit, I presently called to mind the honest eyes of my new heart's beloved, and that brought me peace; and how I was struck with horror to think that I had known the sting of that serpent whom men call jealousy. [10]
- Albeit as the betrothed of Hans Haller I had been spared the pangs of jealousy, I owed it only to the great and steadfast trust I had gladly placed in him. [10]
- Crime and sin, being the preserves of two great organized interests, have been guarded against all reforming poachers with as great jealousy as the Royal Forests. [6]
- The Indians soon began to be troublesome in their visits to the plantations, skulking about all night, hanging around the fort by day, bringing sometimes presents of deer, but given to theft of small articles, and showing jealousy of the occupation. [4]
- The king had been told of his brother's treachery, and people were afraid his jealousy might have fearful consequences. [10]
- But she had been liberal in her praise of Bartja; that was enough to disturb Cambyses' mind and prepare the way for jealousy. [10]
- If there had been any open neglect or jealousy, any quarrel or rupture, or any scene, these could be described. [4]
- The taunt must be an outbreak of jealousy against the renowned authors who have the audacity to be also orators. [6]
- When birds gaze at themselves in a looking-glass (of which many instances have been recorded) we cannot feel sure that it is not from jealousy of a supposed rival, though this is not the conclusion of some observers. [1]
- Mr. Hunter succeeded at last in naturalizing the doctrine and practice, but even he had to struggle against the perpetual jealousy of rivals, and died at length assassinated by an insult. [3]
- She did not at all realize that before having seen her future sister-in-law she was prejudiced against her by involuntary envy of her beauty, youth, and happiness, as well as by jealousy of her brother's love for her. [2]
- Harriet's jealousy was assuredly voicing itself now, Shelley's conscience was assuredly nagging him, pestering him, persecuting him. [5]
- Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. [7]
- But as soon as Mark Antony returns it will be proved that her jealousy was needless. [10]
- In proportion, however, as he felt its compelling quality, there came a jealousy of the man who was its cause. [11]
- This was jealousy, and where it flamed so hotly love could scarcely be absent. [10]
- But your obstinacy and jealousy are unbearable. [10]
- My resentment rose again against Perry and Tom, and I began to attribute their lack of appreciation of my achievements to jealousy. [9]
- She was experiencing a swift twinge of jealousy, of that familiar rebellion against her limitations. [9]
- He had made a shrewd guess as to the probable jealousy Dick would feel of the schoolmaster, had found out something of his movements, and had cautioned Mr. Bernard,--as we have seen. [6]
- She now beheld a repetition of what she had experienced at the Adonis festival, but this time she knew what had roused Cleopatra's jealousy. [10]
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