All 7 Uses of
covet
in
Wuthering Heights
- He means to offer liberal payment for permission to lodge at the Heights; and doubtless my brother's covetousness will prompt him to accept the terms: he was always greedy; though what he grasps with one hand he flings away with the other.'†
Chpt 10
- It is impossible that you can covet the admiration of Heathcliff — that you consider him an agreeable person!†
Chpt 10 *
- Abstract your mind from the subject at present: you are too prone to covet your neighbour's goods; remember THIS neighbour's goods are mine.'†
Chpt 10
- He looked astonished at the expression my face assumed during a brief second: it was not horror, it was covetousness.†
Chpt 13
- He has just come home at dawn, and gone up-stairs to his chamber; looking himself in — as if anybody dreamt of coveting his company!†
Chpt 17
- — Do you know that, twenty times a day, I covet Hareton, with all his degradation?†
Chpt 21
- Compare the present occasion with such an affliction as that, and be thankful for the friends you have, instead of coveting more.'†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(covet) to strongly want (something--especially something that belongs to another)