Not that he begrudged either the honors he had won, but his own reputation as a sprinter had preceded his coming to Winthrop, and Will knew that great things had been expected of him.
On the other hand, many plain people, such as peasants and artisans, begrudged the numerous and burdensome ecclesiastical taxes, and an increasing number felt that they were not getting the worth of their money.
Yet Spanish and Portuguese had developed much the same taste for Oriental spices and wares as had the inhabitants of central Europe, and they begrudged the exorbitant prices which they were compelled to pay to Italian merchants.
I hated to stand confessed before him as a traitor to my dreams of a college education, and I begrudged him his medical books.
But eld adull with winter frost and spent with days of yore, My body over-old for deeds begrudged such government.
She was shabby and penniless, a mere household drudge: for James begrudged even a girl to help in the kitchen.
And now he begrudged the household expenses, begrudged the very soap and candles, and even would have liked to introduce margarine instead of butter.
Some had begrudged him his lot and said it was wrong for the government to have granted him a pension on account of losing his left eye.
I was therefore obliged to come back alone, which I did with what speed I could; for I begrudged every moment spent away from the side of one I had so lately learned to love, and must so soon lose.
You would have been very wrong had you declined to accept this on their behalf; but I think that in return for it you need not have begrudged me the affection and obedience which generally follows from such good offices.
He knew that he had not given the world much; yet he had received largely, and no one had begrudged it to him.
Bernard was his adopted son, and no one had begrudged to the uncle the right of making such adoption.
Adolphe Denot was also there: he, too, had been diligently employed in collecting the different sinews of wars; and as far as his own means went had certainly not begrudged them.
They begrudged them nothing that they possessed, and spared neither their provisions nor their houses.
It is not likely that I should do so, when I have not begrudged the blood of my children.
Nor had he begrudged Prince Albert any of his honours till he was called Prince Consort.
Not that she begrudged her brother his luck, or Mary her happiness.
Francis the First begrudged his hated rival the glories and profits of the New World.
He had entailed for himself endless added work for the pleasure of the companionship of a beautiful girl on the journey down the coast, and begrudged no detail of it.
And neither of the men begrudged him the obvious vanity which his momentary importance had inflamed.
After that it was a relief to stroll in dirty by-ways, past cottages of saffron peasants, and poor stony fields that begrudged them a scanty vegetation, back to the steamer blistering in the sun.
Not that we begrudged the thrifty inn-keeper his fee.
All through their short lives they had done their duty as it had come to them, and had been happy in the mere sense of living, and had begrudged nothing to any man or beast, and had been quite content because quite innocent.
He had always despised luxuries rather thanbegrudged them; he despised them still.
I have never begrudged money for the Church or the poor, have I?
She was glad to see the serious look removed from his face; but she still begrudged all that candy.
Or if you wanted a drop of vodka, goodness, I wouldn't have begrudged you a glass or two.
I begrudged myself the dime for the cabby, and I walked all the way from Rogozhskaya Street to Solyanka.
There had been Aunt Vera Mikhailovna, who had lived on the estate by her brother's favor and died of "moderate living"; for Arina Petrovna had begrudged her every mouthful at dinner and every billet of wood for the stove in her room.
Yet theybegrudged the police the satisfaction of seeing him there.
And so briefly I must tell that I carried out all I designed that night I lay awake, and more besides, for every day discovered new necessities, and we begrudged no labor that ministered to our common comfort.
Thus, knowing I must lose her, I begrudged the movement of the sun, and saw him set each evening with a profound melancholy, knowing another day was past from the few that were to give me happiness.
Was this another snare spread for him by some envious wretch who begrudged him his brilliant success that evening, and was jealous of the marked favour he had found in the eyes of the fair ladies of Poitiers?
She would have thought no more of grudging them if his employ and in his service than priests of Isis or of Eleusis would have begrudged the sacrificed lives of beasts and birds that smoked upon their temple altars.
But here she had only one name, Folle-Farine; and here she had only to labor drearily and stupidly like the cattle of the field; without their strength, and with barely so much even as their scanty fare and begrudged bed.
Dinah had thought Priscilla was throwing herself away; she knew her value and begrudged losing her services.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "begrudged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
