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  • This is a grievous offense against charity, but it is not, properly speaking, envy, for envy is always sad; it is rather an effect of envy,

    Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

  • Few thought the project would be prosecuted further, but they miscalculated the power of endurance, the possession of which has brought the success of that man whom they now envy,

    Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

  • Blake in the same city, of whom Thomson writes with a certain wistful envy,

    The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

  • In its course the Emperor touched on the Prince's tour of forty thousand miles round the world, and the effect his “winning personality” had had in bringing together loyal British subjects everywhere, and helping to consolidate the Imperium Britannicum, “on the territories of which,” as the Emperor said, doubtless with an imperial pang of envy,

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • And yet to envy him is natural; and when you ask what I envy,

    The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Aroused by the local society that pursued the poet with hatred and envy,

    Russian Lyrics Martha Dickinson Bianchi 1904

  • She was possibly right; at Rome, at Naples, I might have admitted she was right; but at Assisi, face to face with Giotto's vivid chronicle, we admire too much in its main subject the exquisite play of that subject's genius -- we don't remit to him, and this for very envy,

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • As I saw Lord Castleton step into the street, and wrap himself in his costly mantle lined with sables, I observed, more than I had while he was in the room, the enervate slightness of his frail form, and the more than paleness of his thin, joyless face; and then, instead of envy,

    The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Censure, which arraigns the public actions and the private motives of princes, has ascribed to envy,

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • And needless to say that the name of the game is 'Guess Who', a game that is undoubtedly World's envy,

    unknown title 2009

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