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Updated: May 10, 2025
Such is the irony of life. Visions of one of Aunt Mary's rare lunch-parties and of a small girl peeping covetously through a crack in the dining-room door, and of the gold china set, rose before her. But she could not eat. "Bread and jam and tea at Miss Turner's," Uncle Tom had said, and she had tried to smile at him.
He'll "not believe that the least flower which pranks Our garden borders, or our common banks, And the least stone, that in her warming lap Our mother earth doth covetously wrap, Hath some peculiar virtue of its own, And that the glorious stars of heav'n have none."
Then plunging her hand among the shining pieces, she tossed them about, jingling them together and allowing them to slip through her fingers in a golden shower, muttering covetously: "Ah! what gold! what gold! all good and sound, too! Heavens! what beautiful pieces! What a big sum they must make!"
The great moment of life grasped captured at last! He in his turn understood the Faust-cry "Linger awhile! thou art so fair!" Only let him pierce to the heart of it realize it, covetously, to the full! All the ordinary worldly motives were placated and at rest; due sacrifice had been done to them; they teased no more.
Here he drew a little nearer to her, and looked covetously at the curve of her full, firm waist. "Oh, why!" he resumed in a sort of rapture "why should we say it is a pity to talk any more? Why should we say it is all no use? It is of use, it is noble, it is edifying to converse of the Lord's good pleasure! And what is His good pleasure at this moment? To unite two souls in His service!
And in his private capacity he was an enthusiastic collector of things which Professor Binstead, whose tastes lay in the same direction, would have stolen without a twinge of conscience if he could have got the chance. The professor, a small man of middle age who wore tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles, flitted covetously about the room, inspecting its treasures with a glistening eye.
He eyed his companion's waterproof covetously, and declared that he had had one like it which had been stolen from him the day before. Had the place been lonely he might have contemplated highway robbery, but they were at the entrance to a village, and the sight of a public-house awoke his thirst. Dickson parted with him at the cost of sixpence for a drink.
Envy is that peculiar demon of discontent that cannot see the abilities, attainments, achievements, or possessions of another without malicious determination to belittle, deride, make light of, or absolutely deny their existence, while all the time covetously craving them for itself.
Sink or swim, but you've got clear water to do it in. I'll hang around make my city headquarters with you; lend myself to you; but for the rest I'm going to do exactly what I want to do for a time." Cameron regarded his uncle as the young often do the older yearningly, covetously, tenderly. "I I think I understand about Miss Fletcher, Uncle Dave," he said. "I had hoped you did, boy.
Rolf, seeing him lie abjectly on his face in order to gather up the money, smiled at the sight of a man prostrated by his own gifts, just as if he were seeking covetously to regain what he had craftily yielded up. The Swedes were content with their booty, and Rolf quickly retired to his ships, and managed to escape by rowing violently.
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