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Covetously

adverb
1.
With jealousy; in an envious manner.  Synonyms: enviously, jealously.
2.
In a greedy manner.  Synonyms: avariciously, greedily.





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"Covetously" Quotes from Famous Books



... years he told how he looked covetously at the boys who wore neither hats nor boots, and who did not have ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard
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... of their worldly goods to live in utter renunciation. What was the good of keeping these worldly goods, that the avarice of Government taxation confiscated so easily, and that the Barbarians watched covetously from afar! The brutes who came down from Germany would get hold of them sooner or later. And even supposing one might save them, retain an ever-uncertain enjoyment of them, was the life of the time ...
— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand
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... myself a study into which I gathered covetously the most perfect vintage of the human intellect—the ripest fruit our wise race has garnered during all the years it has been harvesting from time. And here I sat me down waiting for my Beloved. She will surely show Her face ...
— Drolls From Shadowland • J. H. Pearce
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... noticed a fur collar I occasionally wear. It is one of my most valued treasures—an ermine collar studded with emeralds. I had often seen the nigger's eyes gleam covetously when he looked at it. Unhappily, I wore it yesterday. That may have been the cause that lured the poor man to his doom. On the very brink of the abyss he tore the collar from my neck—that was the last ...
— The Lair of the White Worm • Bram Stoker
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... sloop-of-war. A lively trade was done in forged papers of American citizenship, and the British naval officer who gave a boat-load of bluejackets shore leave at New York was liable to find them all Americans when their leave was up. Other nations looked covetously upon our great body of able-bodied seamen, born within sound of the swash of the surf, nurtured in the fisheries, able to build, to rig, or to navigate a ship. They were fighting sailors, too, though serving only in the merchant marine. In those days the men that went down to the sea in ships ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot
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Words linked to "Covetously" :   jealously, enviously, greedily, covetous, avariciously


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