coveters

Updated: May 23, 2025

Are we, my father we, two well-born gentlemen coveters of gold or lackeys of the great? When I was at college, if there were any there more heartily despised than another it was the parasite and the tuft-hunter; the man who chose his friends according as their money or their rank might be of use to him.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Kenelm Chillingly — Complete

Nevertheless with the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were destroyed in the wilderness. Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted.

T. Haweis - A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek

Are we, my father we, two well-born gentlemen coveters of gold or lackeys of the great? When I was at college, if there were any there more heartily despised than another it was the parasite and the tuft-hunter; the man who chose his friends according as their money or their rank might be of use to him.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 07

Then Erik rose up and gainsaid the project with contrary reasons. "We remember," he said, "how often coveters of other men's goods lose their own. He who snatches at both has oft lost both. It must be a very strong bird that can wrest the prey from the claws of another.

Grammaticus Saxo - The Danish History, Books I-IX