Which preposition to use with envious

of Occurrences 79%

It was, then, while I was living in sweet content, amid every kind of enjoyment, that Fortune, who quickly changes all things earthly, becoming envious of the very gifts which she herself had bestowed, withdrew her protecting hand.

at Occurrences 5%

And again, "I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

by Occurrences 2%

What may ye not become, when rendered mercenary and envious by too close a contact with those worldly interests which are never admitted to an ascendancy without destroying all your moral beauty! Chapter VII.

before Occurrences 1%

Enormous and unexpected wealth excites envy and suspicion at the same time that it confers influence; and the envious before long become enemies.

for Occurrences 1%

It is very, very hard to endure the slings and arrows of the jealous and envious for whose good you are toiling; to be slandered and reviled by your neighbors whose feeble intellects fail to appreciate your strenuous efforts to push forward the car of progress in their midst; but the consolations expressed in this poem bring balm to every wounded spirit.

than Occurrences 1%

Aretine's Lucretia, a notable quean, confesseth: "Gluttony, anger, envy, pride, sacrilege, theft, slaughter, were all born that day that a whore began her profession; for," as she follows it, "her pride is greater than a rich churl's, she is more envious than the pox, as malicious as melancholy, as covetous as hell.

to Occurrences 1%

He is the most slavishly submissive, though envious to those that are in better place than himself; and knows the art of words so well that (for shrouding dishonesty under a fair pretext) he seems to preserve mud in crystal.

about Occurrences 1%

Her eyes twinkled, and she smiled; but there did not appear to be anything envious about her.

toward Occurrences 1%

They were, generally speaking, too unaspiring to feel envious toward any one of their race who excelled them intellectually, and so there was little or no jealousy of Annette in Tennis Court; in fact some of her neighbors felt a kind of pride in the thought that Tennis Court would turn out a girl who could stand on the same platform and graduate alongside of some of their employers' daughters.

against Occurrences 1%

But how true, as Mr. Glennie said, that we should not be envious against the ungodly, against the man that walketh after evil counsels.

as Occurrences 1%

Funnily enough he is as envious as ever, even though the opportunities for travel are no longer available.

Which preposition to use with  envious