When his family commented with a somewhat envious vivacity upon the glories of their Berlin relatives, Desnoyers would say smilingly, "Leave them in peace; they are paying very dear for their whistle.
His envious eyes scrutinized this fellow, tall, thick-set, his jaws bristling with a great red beard.
Not from the dangers that beset our path From storm or sudden death, or pain or wrath, We pray deliverance; But from the envious eye, the narrowed mind Of those that are the vultures of mankind Thy aid advance.
If I can lend A strong hand to the fallen, or defend The right against a single envious strain, My life though bare Perhaps of much that seemeth dear and fair To us on earth, will not have been in vain.
Did he not merely repeat the atrocious slanders of the envious world?
The village maidens of the plain Salute me lowly as they go; Envious they mark my silken train, Nor think a Countess can have woe.
If you were so jealous and envious that you did not want to see Jess's play succeed, you could have refused, at least, to be cast for an important part in it.
Chet and Lance got the Blue Streak out again and there wasn't a girl in the junior class who was not envious of Laura and Jess.
How often wilt thou call aloud saying, The malignant and envious are calumniating wretched me, that they rise up to shed my blood, and that they sit down to devise me mischief.
He said, 'Be silent; for were the envious from malevolence to insist that this is a camel, and I should be seized for one, who would be so solicitous about me as to inquire into my case?
I can so manage as to give umbrage to no man's heart; but what can I do with the envious man, who harbors within himself the cause of his own chagrin?
Hamilton justified Leland's description of him as a selfish, canker-hearted, envious reptile by refusing.
To say of any one in this sense that he has an evil eye, is the same as saying that he is of a grudging, an envious turn of mind.
An evil eye, therefore, is a grudging, anenvious eye.
As eagerly I raised her lovely face; But ere with gentle force I stole the kiss, Too envious Fate did mar my daring purpose.
Neptune became enamoured of her Medusa once had charms, to gain her love A rival crowd of envious lovers strove.
She sang A song despairing, and the whispering winds Seemed envious of her melody and streamed Amidst the wires to rival her, in vain.
The love which had fallen upon Psyche, and the affection which dropped in honied words from Cupid's lips, was so endearing, that the nymph longed to communicate the delightful story of her good fortune to her less gifted, but envious sisters.
It was discovered that the nations wereenvious of the great Republic, and that Britain alone was proud of her eldest daughter.
The world doesn't forgive success; and the ancients informed us that even the gods were envious of happy people.
John went home, after three days spent in Newport, feeling that Lillie was somehow an injured fair one, and that the envious world bore down always on beauty and prosperity.
The doctors of the law and the chief priests were envious of him; they denounced him to Pilate.
Musa, envious of his lieutenant, Tarik, had treated him with great indignity.
Yet once at my side, she knelt and clasped my hand with a tender devotion that fetched more than one envious sigh from the breasts of the younger officers.
At last the enviousriver swept us around a masking hill.
Chita came up beside us, and the moment I released her mistress, hurried her to the envious doorway.
Will it not slap and pinch the envious dowager, that dares to reflect upon its own delicious?
One of those who were mostenvious of him was Binney Gibbs, son of the wealthy owner of the Brimfield Mills.
Still, Glen strove hard not to feelenvious of this other Brimfield boy.
For the first time in his life he was genuinely envious of another boy.
Some rascal, envious of his friendship for me, hath belyed me to him; and the only resentment I desire is, to convince him of his mistake.
Our happiness was, perhaps, too great; for fortune seemed to grow envious of it, and interposed one of the most cruel accidents that could have befallen us by robbing us of our dear friend the doctor.
The Sultan embraced him, the envious Vizier meanwhile hinting that it was the work of enchantment.
Then Cassim grew so envious that he could not sleep, and went to his brother in the morning before sunrise.
So her envious heart had as much repose as an envious heart can ever know.
There can be no peace in the heart of an envious man.
Envy is a disease which does more harm to the envious than to the envied.
It is wonderful that the envious see not the blessing of good health.
We, coz, are the spoilt, the cockered children of the formation: and this is why the common rabble of nature are so malicious and envious toward us.
From this delight, From this wild revel's surge Perchance there may emerge Foul jealousy, and scorn, and envious spite.
Our cotton fields, our rice fields, our sugar crops, our tobacco crops, are the production of slave labor, and the abundant wealth of the South excites the emulation of the cold and envious North.
