To this Rose Jocelyn had come--she envied the mind of Ferdinand.
At the moment I write he is one of the most envied and popular noblemen in all the Royal Courts of Europe; and no one thinks of asking him whether he is happy.
If that dark frame of mind had fastened on me in the north, it would have burdened me for a day; but in Havana, with the Marquis de Riscal and a Por Larranaga, I envied no mediocre novelist her stereotyped laurels.
But more than all ladies' favours I envied him such a brave repair of horse to follow him.
Go happy stream, and to my Laura tell What envied joys in thy clear crystal flow!
With these, my brow's young leaves, I fondly dream'd Another work than this had greeted thee: What iron planet envied thus our love?
Or what Heaven's other envied gifts to have, If still I groan the slave Of the fierce despot whom I here accuse, Who turns e'en my sad life to his triumphant use?
But I should think it delightful," cried Ursula, "I have always envied the boys.
The King and the Knights were dumb with surprise that it was Balin who had triumphed over them, and many of them envied him and felt anger towards him.
Many looked upon him and marvelled at the strength of his horse, and its golden trappings, and envied Beaumains his shining coat of mail; but they noted that he had neither shield nor spear.
The Justice of the Peace, a retired attorney, and an old admirer of the fair sex, envied the delinquent.
It was a very comfortable feeling, to find myself one of the circle that I had looked up to and envied so long, but it did not appear to me that I was in any way a different person to that which I had ever been.
I sat outside the officers’ mess on the other side of the street and envied them.
Strickland used to say, sometimes, that he envied the convicts in the jail.
In truth she threatened to pluck out all her hair, which would have been a performance much to be regretted, seeing that it floated over her shoulders like tresses of silk, and was so luxuriant that a Delhian maid might have envied it.
But as Captain Luke took no heed of his request, and thought only of getting into port, the major, in his great anxiety, ran himself upon deck in his shirt, and cut so sorry a figure that no man would have envied him.
How he envied those fortunate mortals who always arrived at the right moment, and instinctively said the right thing!
The smallest events in her life were an open book to him; and it was these worthless details that Maurice Guest enviedhim most.
O'Dowd's carriage stood by, and she envied the coachman his warm fur collar, and with it came the thought of all she had given up to marry Adair.
Yes, she envied that woman, terrible as it was to admit it.
No one was ever hated or envied for his powers of mind, if others were convinced of their real excellence.
Thus, in passing through a fine collection of pictures, who has not envied the privilege of visiting it every day, and wished to be the owner?
The lean dog with freedom, is much more to be envied than the chained dog with a golden collar.
She--for it was never a boy--who had picked the most berries that day, headed the band and was a proud and envied person.
The two girls sitting directly in front of me listened intently, as they passed a little bag of peppermints back and forth, and I envied them the friendship which that furtive bag of peppermints betokened.
Men who had loved Betty, women who had been envied because of her friendship for them, rallied about her now, in her dotage, and helped her keep up the pitiable farce of queenship.
Marie was envied as Lamet's sweetheart; until he went broke, overnight, and had to flee to England to dodge a debtor's cell.
So while his fellow courtiers alternately envied him and longed to kick him, they wondered what might be the secret of his fascination over Ninon.
By slow degrees Hester was learning to love the woman, whose position as Philip's wife she would have envied so keenly had she not been so truly good and pious.
Several times that day, as he perceived Coulson's jealous sullenness, he thought in his heart that the consequence of the excessive confidence for which Coulson envied him was a burden from which he would be thankful to be relieved.
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