Now on the part of the conversion, there is no reason for pride being the greatest of sins, because uplifting which pride covets inordinately, is not essentially most incompatible with the good of virtue.
Pride is not the same as vainglory, but is the cause thereof: for pride covets excellence inordinately: while vainglory covets the outward show of excellence.
In revolutionary days hecovets the glory of a minuteman, and in the deeds of Warren and Putnam finds the consummation of his hopes.
Yet commerce and industry--the glittering prizes which every nation covets when it builds a dreadnought or enlarges its army--demand that the creative forces of peace supplant the destructive wastes of war.
It was that of the man who covets his neighbour's goods, i.
He covets stability and the glory of liberating Italy; and acting with heroic moderation is the obvious way of winning to his side republicans in France and the diplomatists of Europe.
But an earnest friendship is not what a mancovets from the girl who holds his heart.
Great as you know our interest in you to be," Simmonds replied imperturbably, "I don't suppose either of us covets the distinction of hanging for you.
The rich nobleman who is an invalid covets health, on the assumption that health would enable him to enjoy his wealth and position.
For instance, the poor nobleman covets wealth, because wealth would bring him comfort, whereas the nouveau riche covets a pedigree, because a pedigree would make him of what he is merely in.
God, as I told you before, covets to dwell with the broken in heart, and the broken in heart desire communion with him.
Amiableness is the object of love, the scope and end is to obtain it, for whose sake we love, and which our mind covets to enjoy.
Concupiscible covets always pleasant and delightsome things, and abhors that which is distasteful, harsh, and unpleasant.
Will is the other power of the rational soul, [1015]"which covets or avoids such things as have been before judged and apprehended by the understanding.
He who covets the honours or prizes of glory must not be faint with craven fear, but go forth to meet the brave, nor whiten at the cold steel.
For he who covets the pinnacle of another's power must watch and wake all night.
When you say that, you know curiosity alwayscovets the forbidden.
If he bears false witness and lies, he will steal money as he filched character; if he covets his neighbor's wife, the time comes when he murders her husband.
In his ignorance, he covets himself; and he that approves, is himself {the thing} approved.
The second part, the Valkyrie, relates how Wotan still covets the ring.
Of course he covets the notice of the world he has served, as a lover covets the notice of his mistress.
Thus it is that he covets nothing, for there is nothing which is not contained in everything, and everything is his.
Thus he is free from all those great troubles which unhinge the mind, he neither hopes for, nor covets anything, and engages in no uncertain adventures, being satisfied with what he has.
But the miser covets all the money that he can get: the voluptuary ranges land and sea in search of a new pleasure: the philosopher ever longs for a higher knowledge: the saint is indefatigable in doing good.
Every working man, from the sailor to the shop-boy, covets for himself two things, pay and leisure.
As long as the Pharaoh covets them, make him pay well for them.
He must hold steadily to his majesty as a prophet or he cannot control and so serve the crowd, but he covets the man's joy of doing supreme service to the woman whom he loves.
Bishop covets what is costly, but that his highly cultivated taste knows real beauty.
He covetsno estates nor affluence for himself, but refers all to the Supreme Good; and so being contented to possess him, rises above the love of the creature and the world.
But in animals "jealousy," be it that of a fish or a stag, is little more than a transient rage at a rival who comes in presence of the female he himself covets or has appropriated.
Among the Hottentots at Angra Pequena, when a mancovets a girl he goes to her hut, prepares a cup of coffee and hands it to her without saying a word.
Then only is a wife faithful to her husband, when no other mancovets her.
Death, who covets only those who fear her, will not come to me; but my belt will bring her within my power, and as soon as she is mine, she will execute my desire.
But he is anxious to return to her whom he loves and so covets that the way seems long to him as he passes over land and sea: so ardently he longs for the sight of her who has stolen and filched Iris heart away.
Do you not know about grim Death, who desires and covets all things, and everywhere lies in wait for what is best, do you not know what mad act she has committed to-day, as it is her wont to do?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
