Not one of his fellows but envied the young ensign as he left the ship, steered by Timmins, a veteran bo's'n's mate, wise in all the ins and outs of sea ways.

When he could endure the temptation no longer his two black claws shot out, but Nicholas intercepted the much-envied object, while, as it seemed, he drove a more advantageous bargain.

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

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

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

how I envied him lying, all troubles past, in his quiet grave!

6 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share.

On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain.

But meaner temples strive in vain Perfection's envied height to gain; For in our matchless Street alone, The charm of perfect beauty's known.

Her ladyship was for many years the wonder of the fashionable world, envied by all the ladies that frequented the court.

The rich looked down on the poor, and kept apart from them at the Lord's Supper; and no doubt the poor envied the rich heartily enough in return.

Ray Willets, who wanted passionately to be different, whose hands so loved the touch of the lacy, silky garments that made up the lingerie and negligee departments, recognised the perfection of Miss Jevne's faultless realnessrecognised it, appreciated it, envied it.

I said this morning that I envied the head of the tinware department.

He'd seen mankind in every state, Almost, that man can know; But envied not the rich and great, Nor scorned the poor and low.

She cast in her eye where the honey lay, And her pipe she began to measure; But she saw at once it was clear as day, That it would not go down one half the way To the place of the envied treasure.

The very person who is envied for one blessing perhaps envies another for one he does not possess.

The Subs., my peers, Envied the garment, ransacking the land To find a shirt its equalall in vain.

As to its usefulness, you are to be envied; to have brought light, as I believe you have, to a large number of people upon the most precious and vital interests of life, is something worth living and suffering for.

She envied her superior weapons of seduction; she raged at her own modesty and humility as a home-keeping woman.

He, being crop sick of his bachelor life, Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife (Nota beneThank Heaven, I'm not married): He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats, (All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,) And sighed that so long he had tarried.

Sahwah's notebook came in for inspection and much admiration, for she was good at Physics and her drawings were to be envied.

If he had been elected he would have been an usher at the play with the other new members and worn the club colors in his buttonhole to be admired by the girls and envied by the other fellows.

I tried in vain to hire men nurses, and I sympathized with Paolo Orsini, who slipped a cord around the neck of Isabella di Medici, and strangled her; I almost envied Curzon of Simopetra who had never seen a woman.

Whether the bolt of childhood's Fancy shot For me beyond its ordinary mark, 'Twere vain to ask; but in our flock of boys 90 Was One, a cripple from his birth, whom chance Summoned from school to London; fortunate And envied traveller!

[X] Where senators, tongue-favoured men, perform, Admired and envied.