Envied

Examples

• For her I could not lament, so much I envied her enjoyment of the sad immunities of the grave. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She always envied, almost with resentment, the strange positive fullness that subsisted in the atmosphere around Ursula and Birkin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• How deeply, how suddenly she envied Ursula! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• So Athens was disliked and envied by her own empire; her disasters were not felt and shared as disasters by her subject-cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I envied no girl her lover, no bride her bridegroom, no wife her husband; I was content with this my voluntary, self-offering friend. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Alexander's feelings for Napoleon had always been of a very mixed sort; he envied Napoleon as a rival, and despised him as an underbred upstart. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These people whom she had ridiculed and yet envied were glad to make a place for her in the charmed circle about which all her desires revolved. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The place of all places, the envied seat, the post of honour, was unappropriated. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Smith, the Commandant of Cadets, as the two men most to be envied in the nation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She envied them some spontaneity, a childish sufficiency to which she herself could never approach. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Becky's former acquaintances hated and envied her; the poor woman herself was yawning in spirit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I sorrow for the vagabond student of the Latin Quarter now, even more than formerly I envied him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Gudrun envied him almost painfully. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Lady Lucas herself has often said so, and envied me Jane's beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Late we envied their abodes, their spicy groves, fertile plains, and abundant loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The poor soul envied no one in bitterness, and grudged no one anything. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She took her to her heart as a confidential friend--the post Margaret had always longed to fill, and had envied Dixon for being preferred to. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Far above their own titles, therefore, they esteemed and envied the title of C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How she envied Ursula a certain unconscious positivity! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The more she saw of Annie Moffat's pretty things, the more she envied her and sighed to be rich. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I envied them, but felt how impossible it was to imbibe the same feeling, now that years had multiplied my ties in the world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Truly the youth of to-day are to be envied, seeing how easy travel has been made by steam. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Yet I envied him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They were envied when they went away by people left behind, feigning not to want to go: and that again was the Marshalsea habit invariably. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You speak as if you envied him. Jane Austen. Emma.

Typist: Wilhelmina