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• After that, he looked more like the quarterback that NFL teams covet -- if he decides to pass up his senior season —  ESPN.com
• He picked up my friend and to him a tale of woe, misery and discontent did unfold This club man had money, automobiles, social standing, possessions, and all the objects and material things envious persons covet--yet he was unhappy. —  Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep
• I might earn millions, I fancy, if I set them steadily before my eyes and loved the means for the end's sake, easier than I could get what I covet--three or four hundred a year, plenty of leisure, and brain and habits unspoilt by money-making. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
• There is still another joy which every one of us must covet--the sense of entering into the intellectual riches of the world, its wonders of science and art and letters, with the feeling that we have a part in a great treasure, a treasure which, unlike gold and precious stones, men have never been able to gauge or to exhaust. —  A Girl's Student Days and After
• But having been born without any effort of his own to all that most men covet--rank, wealth, and title--he showed a rare spirit of contentment, and did his best to make the world happier by enjoying himself As he was a very slow player, I began to think of a matter which lay nearer to my heart than the game, I mean the project of travelling to Venus. —  A Trip to Venus

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