463 collocations for envying

"One envies men like you who build railways and sail ships," she said, and now Lister wondered where she led.

Standing here, on United States ground, beneath that flag under which we are proud to live, I repeat that no people was ever more loyal than are the Canadas to their Queen; and it is the purpose of the present Ministers of Her Majesty's Government to make the people of Canada so prosperous and happy, that other nations shall envy them their good fortune.

Thus, they soon learn to think themselves exempt from all other laws; of which they either do not discover the use, and, therefore, easily consent to abolish them; or envy the happiness of those who are protected by them, and so prevail upon themselves to destroy those privileges which have no other effect, with regard to them, but to aggravate their own dependence.

"I envy you your power.

And now you envy me the possession of a wretched man, whom tempests have cast upon my shores, making him lawfully mine; whose ship Jove rent in pieces with his hot thunderbolts, killing all his friends.

JANE O brother Robert, say not so; It is not very long ago, Ah! brother, you've forgot, When speaking of a boy you knew, Remember how you said that you Envied his happy lot.

Now it was that I almost envied Jacob his position.

No, my dear, you needn't envy this woman!

Sometimes in those mountaineering excursions with John to Zermatt, to Chamonix, to Grindelwald, I have found it in my heart to envy the unaspiring people who spend long days pottering about on level ground.

"Ah, Beltane, dear lad," quoth he, "I envy thee and grieve for thee!

"But we saw it, and we envied her so much love, so much respect," she replied frankly.

But if you know them, my dear old chap, I really don't envy you your friends," declared the Major with a laugh.

Whatever is stuck on as ornament affects us as ornament; we do not think an old hag young and handsome because the jewels flash from her brow and bosom; if we envy her wealth, we do not admire her beauty.

You naturally lick your lips, and envy me my felicity.

I envied Ringan his ease, and Bertrand his light cheerfulness, and Donaldson his unshaken gravity, and especially I envied Shalah his godlike calm.

I don't envy the Grand Bashaw his Circassian beauties.

They did not dream that 'Frisco Kid ever looked up at them from the cockpit of the Dazzler and in turn envied them just those things which sometimes were the most distasteful to them and from which they suffered to repletion.

Every body hated the tyrant, nobody loved or honoured him, but all suspected him, and he began to envy the condition of Duncan whom he had murdered, who slept soundly in his grave, against whom treason had done its worst: steel nor poison, domestic malice nor foreign levies, could hurt him any longer.

I envy not the rich or great, however; for one that has seen as much of life as I, knows the difference between the gay colors of the garment, and that of the shrivelled and diseased skin it conceals.

I don't envy Pen's feelings as he thought of what he had done.

And I, envying him his gift of credulity, weakly strive for it.

Oh, how I envy your fate!

Every day I hear men reading in the papers about some lucky dogs having strayed, or having been stolen, a large reward being offered for their recovery: and I envy each lost dog!

Rachel envied her sister, being barren, Gen. xxx.

But most of all I envied Elspeth the courage which could know desperate fear and never show it.

463 collocations for  envying