All 4 Uses of
covet
in
Anna Karenina
- The first telegram was the announcement of Stremov's appointment to the very post Karenin had coveted.†
Part 4 *
- Stepan Arkadyevitch was familiar by now with the title of the post he coveted, and he brought it out rapidly without mistake.†
Part 7
- In Petersburg, besides business, his sister's divorce, and his coveted appointment, he wanted, as he always did, to freshen himself up, as he said, after the mustiness of Moscow.†
Part 7
- "But a man may feel himself unworthy sometimes to rise to that height," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, conscious of hypocrisy in admitting this religious height, but at the same time unable to bring himself to acknowledge his free-thinking views before a person who, by a single word to Pomorsky, might procure him the coveted appointment.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(covet) to strongly want (something--especially something that belongs to another)