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Updated: June 10, 2025
Who would guard her from other eyes, that as her beauty and charm came to their full bloom might look covetously upon her? What if in his absence another's hand should be stretched to pluck his heartsease blossom that left unguarded, unprotected by him, another should snatch it, in its beauty, its purity and innocence, to his bosom? The thought was hell!
He noticed that one or two customers sat round covetously watching the operation of the syringe not having the money with which to indulge themselves; he also observed several who appeared to be in the last stage of their existence thin to emaciation, mere wrecks, like half-dead flies, scarcely able to crawl about the floor.
There were many lines wrinkling the circle of his eyes, and the brilliant color on his cheeks was the effect of rouge and fever. The queen gazed covetously at Mazarin's winnings.
She was even incited to his embraces by the splendour of his beauty; nor did he fail to offer her the gifts of love. Having won Groa, Bess proceeded and learnt that the road was beset by two robbers. These he slew simply by charging them as they rushed covetously forth to despoil him.
So we voyaged on, and my heart became attached to her with exceeding attachment, and I was separated from her neither night nor day, and I paid more regard to her than to my brothers. Then they were estranged from me, and waxed jealous of my wealth and the quantity of merchandise I had, and their eyes were opened covetously upon all my property.
Every now and then he lost himself in the mere intoxication of the spring, in the charm of the factory valleys, just flushing into green, through which the train was speeding. But in general his attention was held by the book in his hand. His time for reading had been much curtailed of late by the toils of his business. He caught covetously at every spare hour.
He did not cling covetously to his inherited wealth, and the noble attribute of liberality was not strange to him, but the coarseness of his nature showed itself most when he was most lavish, for he was never tired of exacting gratitude from those whom he had attached to him by his gifts, and he thought he had earned the right by his liberality to meet the recipient with roughness or arrogance, according to his humor.
Military men saluted courteously; the women stared modestly and prettily perhaps covetously; the merchants and citizens in general bowed and smiled a welcome that could not have been heartier. The strangers remarked the absence of vehicles on the main streets.
She took up the silk of the dressing-gown and passed it through her fingers covetously; then her tired eyes ran over the room, the white bed standing ready, the dressing-table with its silver ornaments and flowers, the chintz-covered sofas and chairs. "Why shouldn't we be rich too?" she said angrily. "Your father is richer than the Tathams. It's a wicked, wicked shame!"
His hair emerged a mass of dripping ringlets, covetously eyed by his companions. They walked along the streets, Schilsky between the others, whom he overtopped by head and shoulders: three young rebels out against the Philistines: three bursting charges of animal spirits.
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