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  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = '"I must say, I\'m a little envious," Bush said.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan 2008

  • Degrees, in Arts or Sciences, yee know there's a kind of Envious

    The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris

  • OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan 2008

  • Fridge Porn Envious glances inside the fridges of total strangers.

    Internet picks of the week 2011

  • With obvious delight he wrote his beloved Marquis de Lafayette—another member of his close military family—that he had “not only retired from all public employments, but I am retireing within myself,” and “tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction—Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Envious and sorrowful, I watched my former friends pack up their cars and start out for the retreat.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010

  • Envious for never having the chance to fight for his country?

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Envious and sorrowful, I watched my former friends pack up their cars and start out for the retreat.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010

  • With obvious delight he wrote his beloved Marquis de Lafayette—another member of his close military family—that he had “not only retired from all public employments, but I am retireing within myself,” and “tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction—Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Envious of his acquisition of the gardens she wanted for herself and jealous of his lover Poppaea Sabina, her rival for the attentions of the celebrated Greek actor Mnester, Messalina put her legal henchman Publius Suillius to work.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

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