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Updated: May 18, 2025
He stood a moment with his stubby little body tensely poised, then plunged afresh with feverish eagerness to his task. The sand-storm recommenced, and Chris turned with a sigh to contemplate the blue horizon. A large steamer was travelling slowly across it. She watched it enviously. "Lucky people!" she said. "Lucky, lucky people!"
Proud of his success, he was anxious for some new duty of an active nature, and he hoped that it was at hand. Langdon and St. Clair looked at him enviously. "He ought to have sent for us, too," said Langdon. "Colonel Talbot has too high an opinion of you, Harry." "I've been lucky," said Harry, as he walked lightly away. He found that Colonel Talbot was not alone in his tent.
But Hallowell senior heard little of anything else. At his office, at his clubs, on the golf-links, every one he met congratulated him on the high and peculiar distinction that had come to his pet college. "You certainly have the darnedest luck in backing the right horse," exclaimed a rival pork-packer enviously.
"You are beautiful," she said to the moth, "beautiful, really." She was awed and solemn. "Who is your companion?" the moth asked the sprite. "A bee. I met her just as I was leaving my flower." The moth seemed to realize what that meant. He looked at Maya almost enviously. "You fortunate creature!" he said in a low, serious, musing tone, shaking his head to and fro.
The Earl had sent in haste for a picked and chosen band of his own retainers, on his demesnes near the city. These I joined, and learning thy name at the monastery at Gloucester, I stopped here to tell thee my news and hear thine." "Dear brother," said the abbot, looking enviously on the knight, "would that, like thee, instead of entering the Church, I had taken up arms!
If the mean beggar'd on'y square up with me, I'd let summedy else do his" "Thon's a brave wee shilty, sur-thon grey wan o' yours," broke in the contractor, who had been conversing with Thompson, whilst looking enviously at Fancy, hitched behind the wagon.
Unhappily, it was remembered, there are spectators of its method of getting to an equipoise out of the agitation of extremes. The peep at our treasures to regain composure had, we fear, given the foreigner glimpses, and whetted the appetite of our masses. No sooner are we at peace than these are heard uttering low howls, and those are seen enviously glaring.
The night was hot and he had thrown off coat and collar and rolled his sleeves high, so a brawny arm gleamed in the bright lamplight, and the open shirt exposed a powerful neck. Chester, who was of slighter build and not as tall as he would have liked to be, watched enviously.
We can pardon it even in conquered races, like the Welsh and Irish, who make up to themselves for present degradation by imaginary empires in the past whose boundaries they can extend at will, carrying the bloodless conquests of fancy over regions laid down upon no map, and concerning which authentic history is enviously dumb.
"I'm a gentleman's son. He was a Master at a big school until he was kicked out that was when I was four and my mother died. I'm thirteen now. How old are you?" "I'm twelve," answered Marco. The Rat twisted his face enviously. "I wish I was your size! Are you a gentleman's son? You look as if you were." "I'm a very poor man's son," was Marco's answer. "My father is a writer."
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