There he met with store of exceeding great ice all this coast along, and, coveting still to continue his course to the northward, was always by contrary wind detained overthwart these straits, and could not get beyond.
That scoundrel Cousinho--Andreas, you know--has been coveting the brig for years.
Thinker, stylist, and man of the world in his time, the elder Heyst had begun by coveting all the joys, those of the great and those of the humble, those of the fools and those of the sages.
He imagines his son to be still coveting these things, and coveting them in vain.
He has enlarged the frontiers of the South, whilst notcoveting the region of the North.
Keep us from coveting any thing that is our neighbour's.
Mr. Wylder could not well object to sir Richard Lestrange on the ground that his daughter had loved him before she or her father knew his position the same he was coveting for her; and within two months they were married.
Now prudence requireth that I examine this breach and see if there be aught therein which may lead to perdition; and coveting shall not make me cast myself into destruction.
Between his wrath at the suspicion of an injury, and the prudence enjoined by his abject coveting of her, he consented to be fooled for the sake of vengeance, and something besides.
He saw full surely the dissolving process; and sincerely admiring and coveting her as he did, rashly this ill-fated gentleman attempted to precipitate it, and so doing arrested.
He dragged her through the labyrinths of his penetralia, in his hungry coveting to be loved more and still more, more still, until imagination gave up the ghost, and he talked to her plain hearing like a monster.
Coveting the possessions of others, doing injury to others, and disbelief in the ordinances of the Vedas, are the three acts done with the mind which should always be avoided.
Verily, by coveting that which is unattainable, thou art sure to meet with destruction in no time.
O Matanga, by coveting that very high status thou art sure to be destroyed.
Absence of coveting the possessions of others is the act that is directed to be followed.
Yoshitoki is, in truth, one of the rare figures to whom history can assign the credit of coveting neither wealth nor station.
No coveting nor envy burns In thy bright golden eye, That calm and innocently turns On all below the sky.
I would not instruct thee in coveting wealth; Yet beauty, we know, is the offspring of health; And health, the fair daughter of freedom!
We have it first in the most moderate form when Haman is forced to assist in bestowing on Mordecai the honours he has been coveting for himself, by leading the horse of the hated Jew in his triumphant procession through the city.
For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
So far from coveting their praises, who are never well pleased but with things that are evil; I shall continually pray to be preserved from such things as they are delighted with.
Our warrior had seen some of the officers from the fort strolling around, and straightway fell to coveting his neighbors' straps, which observing, Sachem at once purchased from a store the emblems of power and pinned them upon him.
His whole nature coveting excitement, nothing was left to the beautiful, the luxurious Edward, already wearied with pomp and pleasure, but what was unholy and forbidden.
They might all, as the world's ambitions went, be excused from coveting the stranger's promotion.
I never could see the appropriateness of the Bible precept aboutcoveting your neighbor's wife," he resumed after another brief silence.
I believe there is a clause there about coveting children.
