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  • The King has commanded his demise, vowed to make my father wear an axe, to scissor his eyes, set fire to his skin, all to scratch envy's initials on his heart with a pebble and a rag

    Son of Goya Bill Yarrow 2011

  • Anyway, hope you blog your way out of envy's clutches ... liliya

    Envy, or what it's like to feel L. Lee Lowe 2008

  • This interpretation of envy's characteristic appraisal is more plausible, and it jibes better with the doctrine that envy is not a moral feeling.

    Envy D'Arms, Justin 2009

  • They may be best understood as holding a disjunctive view of envy's constitutive desire.

    Envy D'Arms, Justin 2009

  • A more interesting question concerns the last element in envy's characteristic appraisal: the negative evaluation of the difference in possession.

    Envy D'Arms, Justin 2009

  • Who told you that envy's finger streaked my clothes with yellow?

    Alfonsina Storni greenintegerblog 2008

  • He envy's him right now, for having what he wants, but what he can't have.

    walkercayce Diary Entry walkercayce 2003

  • Please, I've never felt powerful and clear --- the leader - the woman my mother tells me she envy's and wishes she could be ...

    ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2002

  • But for justice and for envy's vile there's no Irish wanted here.

    The Irish Laborer 1997

  • Reply Obj. 3: The number of envy's daughters may be understood for the reason that in the struggle aroused by envy there is something by way of beginning, something by way of middle, and something by way of term.

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

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