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  • Once, they traveled to the mall to buy Christmas presents with the holiday throng and let Jimmy roam so he could locate a toy he coveted.†   (source)
  • At the foot of them unconscious Doxys lay crammed in the bucket beside a bowl of their black eggs, at which Crook-shanks was now sniffing and Fred and George were shooting covetous looks.†   (source)
  • It soon became clear neither had any idea what the privileges were, only that they were much to be coveted.†   (source)
  • For one thing, Dinah Ericson's bedroom had a window seat in the closet that I coveted.†   (source)
  • "What else do I need my memory for?" my mother asked her sister; the two women would smile at each other—my Aunt Martha coveting that part of my mother's memory that might tell her the story of who my father was.†   (source)
  • When churches honored their most distinguished members with ornate tombs inside the sanctuary, surviving family members often demanded the family be buried together …. thus ensuring they too would have a coveted burial spot inside the church.†   (source)
  • This ring, she told me, drew coveting stares from women and made them inattentive to the children they guarded so jealously.†   (source)
  • When someone covets something, they desire and lust after it.†   (source)
  • He put on his hat and the dark cordovan gloves I coveted.†   (source)
  • The books had been promised to Ashoke throughout his childhood, and for as long as he could remember he had coveted them more than anything else in the world.†   (source)
  • Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods, nor make unto thee any graven image.†   (source)
  • After the American explorer Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909 and Roald Amundsen led a Norwegian party to the South Pole in 1911, Everest-the so-called Third Pole-became the most coveted object in the realm of terrestrial exploration.†   (source)
  • Immigrants weren't just taking jobs natives didn't covet; they competed for work as painters, mechanics, and construction workers.†   (source)
  • If during the year one of us coveted something that belonged to another, we might get the temporary loan of that item for January of the new year.†   (source)
  • I thought of the gold-stamped steering wheel the sailmakers wore on their collars; I had coveted that insignia for so long now.†   (source)
  • As the notion of an exposition gained shape, however, other cities began to see it as a prize to be coveted, mainly for the stature it would confer, stature being a powerful lure in this age when pride of place ranked second only to pride of blood.†   (source)
  • He sees that he does not love the woman he is engaged to nor the conformity which she and her father, as members of the rising middle class, covet.†   (source)
  • Bailey's eyes widened, as if pleased she'd led him to an idea he coveted.†   (source)
  • A persistent nag involves constant requests for the coveted product and may include the phrase "I'm gonna ask just one more time."†   (source)
  • She takes off her coat, the one that is black and velvet and that I have coveted since she bought it at some mall in New Jersey on a trip to visit her grandparents.†   (source)
  • I'd have written my phone number in permanent marker on the back of Brittain's alligatorshirt before the class was over if I was in your covetous state.†   (source)
  • Pappachi would not believe her story—not because he thought well of her husband, but simply because he didn't believe that an Englishman, any Englishman, would covet another man's wife.†   (source)
  • He's coveted that for a long time, and now he has it.†   (source)
  • His real father was the one whose affection he most coveted.†   (source)
  • What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant?†   (source)
  • But in time the affection of his family, the Sundays in the country, and the covetous attentions of the unmarried women of his class mitigated the bitterness of his first impression.†   (source)
  • But she found no covetousness in these faces.†   (source)
  • There were others who coveted our land, and we were too small to hold it.†   (source)
  • Colton's eyes never left Rosie as first a boy then a girl held the enormous spider and the zookeeper awarded the coveted stickers.†   (source)
  • That November, my newspaper promoted me to columnist, a coveted position that gave me my own space on the section front three times a week to spout off about whatever I wanted.†   (source)
  • Ole Jurgensen told everything—the way the politeness had gone out of the Japanese man, the unreadable Japanese expression on his face when he heard that the land he coveted had been sold.†   (source)
  • Junior considered the playground his own, and the schoolchildren coveted his freedom to sleep late, go home for lunch, and dominate the playground after school.†   (source)
  • A man who has won a prize coveted by his friend faces a difficult choice: he must either hide his prize away where the friend will never see it—if he can—or suffer damage to the friendship.†   (source)
  • Though everyone knows of Van Gogh and Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci, Ruth and I focused on twentieth-century American modern art, and many of the artists we met over the years created work that museums and other collectors later coveted.†   (source)
  • She fought back a shiver as the four warriors examined her, feeling vulnerable beneath their covetous looks.†   (source)
  • Shooters are scored according to a point system that, at day's end, rewards the most accurate of all with the coveted Sharpshooter's trophy.†   (source)
  • He coveted both the money and the status that a doctor was supposed to enjoy in Iran.†   (source)
  • This one, the most popular and coveted one of all, actually cares.†   (source)
  • Charles Halloway turned a page…. did the scurrying freaks, the Illustrated Marvel, bear the foreheads of the Irascible, the Cruel, the Covetous, the mouths of the Lewd and Untruthful? the teeth of the Crafty, the Unstable, the Audacious, the Vainglorious, and your Murderous Beast?†   (source)
  • The law helped transform the country into a police state; no dictator could covet more power than the Ninety-Day Detention Law gave to the authorities.†   (source)
  • It was clear that she coveted the blade.†   (source)
  • That'll Teach Me to spy to moan to covet my neighbor's boyfriend.†   (source)
  • She's spent years coveting rulership of Gens Veturia.†   (source)
  • For the largest ones, coveted by zoos and scientists and sometimes by snake handlers, they might receive five dollars apiece.†   (source)
  • Yoga Janet had given me a bottle of gorgeous bright magenta polish, which my pedicurist Rose Silva openly coveted.†   (source)
  • Padorin's navy-blue jacket was ablaze with ribbons and the gold star medal of the most coveted award in the Soviet Military, Hero of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • I could ask them for directions back to the marketplace, though my Hindi isn't nearly as good as Father's and for all I know Where is the marketplace may come out as I covet your neighbor's fine cow.†   (source)
  • The man also should have received something even more coveted: the Medal of Honor.†   (source)
  • The coveted insignia recognizes those who have completed BUD/S training, made it through a six-to-nine-month probationary period, and passed advanced SEAL Tactical Training.†   (source)
  • She coveted it and plucked at it whenever she could.†   (source)
  • Of what they brought to light the Orcs have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute to Sauron, who covets it.†   (source)
  • Why do you think she hangs around, covets a relationship with my new wife?†   (source)
  • And so the clock ticked on the mantel; and Madeleine begged to see the performances of the Theatres des Vampires and swore to defend Claudia against any vampire who dared insult her; and Claudia spoke of strategy and said, 'Not yet, not now,' and I lay back observing with some measure of relief Madeleine's love for Claudia; her blind covetous passion.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that Cedric has received the coveted acceptance letter.†   (source)
  • We had to find covet I steered us toward a row of houses.†   (source)
  • The sauna, though coveted by the many, could accommodate only the few, and the only way to get in was by pull.†   (source)
  • For instance, at Jackson at lunch, due to the cramped cafeteria, lack of coveted picnic tables, and general angst, there was always some kind of drama going on.†   (source)
  • Their scarves and pashminas are so coveted, they could probably sell them at twice the price.†   (source)
  • At year's end, after passing his final exams, when Thomas was appointed to the coveted position of Braithwaite's house officer, Shawn Grogan, a bright and well-connected medical student, found the courage to ask Braithwaite what he might have done to be selected instead of Stone.†   (source)
  • They added to his pile of debris on the coveted table while they totally ignored the lawyers on the other side.†   (source)
  • Down in the city there was a scramble to acquire one of the coveted syringes that were now flowing out of Paris.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist wandered through deserted, almost eerily empty corridors and rooms with patterned parquet floors of different kinds of wood, and Tricia Guild wallpaper of the type that Berger had at one time coveted.†   (source)
  • She had never coveted anything until now.†   (source)
  • In the next few weeks, the rector did return to digging graves, somehow finding the strength to bury those so poor as to have nothing that my greedy father coveted.†   (source)
  • He knows our potential but has to watch us forever falling short, all the cruel things we do to one another, the hatred and the lies, the envy and greed and the endless coveting.†   (source)
  • All of the faces turned silently toward hers with either mild surprise or coveted satisfaction over what they knew was coming.†   (source)
  • During all the Sealand woman's disquisition Michael had been gazing out of the entrance, running his eyes almost covetously over the machine that waited in the clearing.†   (source)
  • Last known specimen was captured on the Iberian Peninsula by the famed warrior Roland who coveted its magic but inadvertently slew the animal in his impatience for its quills.†   (source)
  • Asmodeus looked at him with covetous eyes.†   (source)
  • The new King's Hand was seated on an oaken throne carved in the shape of a hand, an absurd vanity his lordship had produced the day Ser Kevan agreed to grant him the office he coveted.†   (source)
  • He would peek into the bag every now and then, and he would roll his eyes and swivel his scrawny neck,, trying to catch people looking covetously at his bag.†   (source)
  • We are the cause of all the values that you covet, we who perform the process of thinking, which is the process of defining identity and discovering causal connections.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: (With a covetous look at NICK) We sure have.†   (source)
  • That she was able to covet Natalie's cashmere sweaters at a time like this, when the people who'd lost everything in the crash had nothing, made her feel ashamed.†   (source)
  • Kimbo believed that Bah-rae coveted his lands and his wife.†   (source)
  • But more, more, she knew, he coveted her gift.†   (source)
  • She doesn't seem the least bit covetous, only rather proud.†   (source)
  • LYING AGAINST a mound of straw as he tried to keep the wind from under two blankets that he had bought, Alessandro held the 9mm pistol he had stolen from the sentry, in case someone in the mass of men huddled in the car should dislike Italians or covet what he had left.†   (source)
  • It-was not a grand house, of the sort that you might expect a man like Junior to covet.†   (source)
  • We covet weirdos; they can do things we can't because they're so strange.†   (source)
  • He smashed the glass with the handle of his gun and picked around the shards for the weapons he would use — weapons coveted by terrorists everywhere — timer grenades, each with the impact of a 20-pound bomb.†   (source)
  • The hostess led Saladin to a coveted table near the front of the restaurant, a few paces from the bar.†   (source)
  • Randy sensed that Pete, perhaps because he had never had much of it, still coveted money.†   (source)
  • …combs, help-wanted ads, Yellow Pages torn from the phone book, rags of old underwear or dresses that already were period costumes, for wiping your own breath off the inside of a windshield with so you could see whatever it was, a movie, a woman or car you coveted, a cop who might pull you over just for drill, all the bits and pieces coated uniformly, like a salad of despair, in a gray dressing of ash, condensed exhaust, dust, body wastes—it made him sick to look, but he had to look.†   (source)
  • In fact, considering how I had so coveted the job in the first place, I was rather surprised at the relief, indeed the alacrity, with which I accepted my dismissal only five months later.†   (source)
  • It was tightly closed, but I opened it, to find to my puzzlement and covetousness two polished buffalo nickels, embedded in white cotton.†   (source)
  • And I wanted to promise him I wouldn't lie or steal or associate with persons of loose morals, or covet my neighbor's wife, or anything.†   (source)
  • Before I finished meting out the bags, Richard was poking Lincoln in the belly because Lincoln had coveted Richard's vampire mask and subsequently absconded with it.†   (source)
  • He had been captured by the world, by lust, covetousness, sloth, and finally also by that vice which he had used to despise and mock the most as the most foolish one of all vices: greed.†   (source)
  • The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."   (source)
  • The covetous man is ever in want.   (source)
  • I covet no man's soul,   (source)
    covet = want
  • No point in telling them not to lie, steal, commit adultery, or covet.†   (source)
  • You are hardly the first student to covet the diadem. she said disdainfully.†   (source)
  • It was one of the ancient world's most coveted and secretive icons.†   (source)
  • She's a magic presence to us, an object of envy and desire, we covet her.†   (source)
  • He decided to end the life of another man who stood between him and the land he coveted.†   (source)
  • What if Andrew wrote that creepy "covet" e-mail?†   (source)
  • I shall not covet my sister's husband, but I shall know him, in my way, better.†   (source)
  • In ancient times, the Hand of the Mysteries actually served as the most coveted invitation on earth.†   (source)
  • Each acre was something to covet, something hard to get that enough of could not be gotten.†   (source)
  • "All men beneath your position covet your station," went the Bene Gesserit axiom.†   (source)
  • You can covet what's already yours," I informed him.†   (source)
  • I'd been inside several times, and it was not a job I ever coveted.†   (source)
  • Then she tried to find where that first e-mail—the one titled "covet"—had come from.†   (source)
  • You know that I've stolen, I've lied, I've coveted …. my virtue is all I have left.†   (source)
  • And from day one I have coveted it bitterly.†   (source)
  • It was obvious why she was feeling so off: that creepy "covet" e-mail.†   (source)
  • You will wait a day, a moon, a thousand years, but you will never have what you covet.†   (source)
  • It was unfortunate enough that he'd begun to covet Alice's and Edward's abilities.†   (source)
  • "The Demon covets the book he sought long ago," the witch rumbled.†   (source)
  • Van Buren covets vindication in the eyes of the law as much as we do.†   (source)
  • He'd sent his stable hands home a hit early, as he'd coveted a little time alone.†   (source)
  • And from what Sam had heard Gorbag would covet it.†   (source)
  • I coveted Richie's respect and played the Admiral Nelson role during the preparation for landing.†   (source)
  • And within the purse was a ring Ruth had always coveted, with a thin gold band and two oval pieces of apple-green jade.†   (source)
  • He carried her around the village, showing her off as though she were the world's most coveted trophy.†   (source)
  • When Mariam spoke, his attention never wavered He nodded slowly and smiled with a look of gratitude, as if he had been granted a coveted privilege.†   (source)
  • It will be a shore fish, a species too paltry and tasteless to have been coveted and sold and exterminated, or else a bottom-feeder pimply with toxins, but Snowman couldn't care less, he'll eat anything.†   (source)
  • He had an angular face, black hair, a black mustache, and dark eyes, the kind of looks soon to be coveted by an industry that Thomas Edison was just then bringing to life.†   (source)
  • I remember you had to crouch to enter the prison cell-sized store, and then had to lift a trapdoor to creep down a set of wooden steps to the dank basement where Saifo stored his coveted kites.†   (source)
  • The matches are wooden ones, in a cardboard sliding-top box, the kind I used to covet in order to make dolls' drawers out of them.†   (source)
  • Normally she drops hints, showing him catalogues, but he has no clue as to what she's coveting this season, if it's a new pair of gloves or a wallet or new pajamas she'd like.†   (source)
  • Also—and I understood this only much later—in a manufactured, slightly ridiculous, faux-European way—complete, of course, with weekly games of lawn bowling and polo and the coveted French wife, all of it to the great approval of the young progressive king.†   (source)
  • Amy Elliott Dunne is like a yeti—coveted and folkloric—and they are two Ozarks grifters whose blurry story will be immediately debunked.†   (source)
  • Surely Annie had been hearing about her deadbeat friend Mae, who took this gift, this coveted job at the Circle—a company that had insured her parents! had saved them from familial catastrophe!†   (source)
  • She remembered all the afternoons they'd spent together, braiding each other's hair, Mariam listening patiently to her random thoughts and ordinary stories with an air of gratitude, with the expression of a person to whom a unique and coveted privilege had been extended "Itis fair," Mariam said.†   (source)
  • On my first day of FIP, just before second-year classes began, I had six interviews, including one with the firm I most coveted—Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP (Gibson Dunn for short)—which had an elite practice in Washington, D.C. The interview with Gibson Dunn went well and I was invited to their infamous dinner at one of New Haven's fanciest restaurants.†   (source)
  • It was clear, however, that Boukreev, Beidleman, and Harris all felt the same way, and it was hypoxic delusion on my part to think that any of them was going to let a client hog such a coveted lead.†   (source)
  • Burnham planned to close the purification plant by Opening Day and give visitors a choice between two other supplies of safe water: lake water purified with Pasteur filters and offered free of charge, or naturally pure water for a penny a cup, piped one hundred miles from the coveted springs of Waukesha, Wisconsin.†   (source)
  • What I coveted was the shears.†   (source)
  • She twisted her precious rings on overknuckled fingers—twist, turn, creak—and fondled my arm (that old-person grope—cold fingers coveting your nice, soft, warm, new skin), and then Binks told me how her late husband of sixty-three years had trouble "keeping it in his pants."†   (source)
  • Along the hallways on every floor shelves ascend to the ceiling, crammed with all the novels one should read in a lifetime, biographies, massive monographs of every artist, all the architecture books Gogol has ever coveted.†   (source)
  • On every night that he did not catch fish he felt his dream recede before him and the strawberry farm he coveted moved further into the distance.†   (source)
  • Reaching the top of Everest is supposed to trigger a surge of intense elation; against long odds, after all, I had just attained a goal I'd coveted since childhood.†   (source)
  • He told the court that Kabuo Miyamoto had been driven by hatred and cold desperation; that after so many years of coveting his lost strawberry fields he had found himself, in early September, in a position to lose them for good.†   (source)
  • But what did you ever covet?†   (source)
  • "Mondele, he wasn't asking for three thousand zaires," Elisabet said quietly when we'd moved on to coveting the pineapples.†   (source)
  • Perhaps his occurred when he was a novice ice most infamous tumble, though, ence, Fischer had decided to attempt the climber: despite his inexperi all' coveted first ascent of a difficult frozen cascade called Bridal Veil Falls, in Utah's Provo Canyon.†   (source)
  • All day, she'd felt like someone was watching her, like whoever had written that "covet" e-mail could jump out at her at any second.†   (source)
  • I coveted you.†   (source)
  • "Great sacrifice, great rewards!" he said then, letting both hands fall heavily from the shoulders, and with all my soul I coveted the delicious weight of goodness he cradled in those palms.†   (source)
  • Spencer, Covet is an easy one.†   (source)
  • But I was unsure which commandment my thoughts had broken—Honor thy father and mother, or not coveting thy neighbor's parents, or even something more vague about being true to your own race and kind.†   (source)
  • Toorlexa Nebee caught me near his latrine one afternoon, loitering he said, as if that stinking place were a coveted shelter and myself a supplicant to his excrement, and now he believes he has frightened me off for good.†   (source)
  • She slumped down in her computer chair and pulled up that first e-mail from A, the one talking about coveting things she couldn't have.†   (source)
  • It was Max who ultimately withstood them, fighting on alone until the only remaining option was to surrender the Book of Thoth to the Demon that coveted it.†   (source)
  • A couple of articles in classical music magazines followed, and a moderately long piece in The New York Times that focused on the father-daughter connection came next, all of which eventually led to a coveted appearance in the Young Performers series at Carnegie Hall four years ago.†   (source)
  • He coveted beauty, talent, and rarity in his immortal followers more than any jewel locked in his vaults.†   (source)
  • It was said that Astaroth himself coveted the book, that he had devoted long study to acquiring the secrets that would permit him to use it.†   (source)
  • She was also the winner, between 1938 and 1958, of nine Poet of the Year awards, culminating finally in the much-coveted State Poet Laureateship.†   (source)
  • Soon, the wanting turned to coveting.†   (source)
  • In some people, that would have struck Gabby as discomfort or shyness; in Stephanie, it came across as the kind of confidence Gabby had always secretly coveted.†   (source)
  • She hoped that Xaro Xhoan Daxos was not an enemy, but the Quartheen merchant had coveted her dragons.†   (source)
  • To the women who were besieging him and coveting him he put the question as to who would pay the most.†   (source)
  • We can understand Prusias's greed and lust for power—we know what he covets, and this makes him far less terrifying than one so alien as Astaroth.†   (source)
  • The intense pain of moisture on their diseased flesh was enough to fill the Scabs with a deep revulsion for the lakes, and Qurong, their leader, had sworn to destroy the waters when he conquered the much-coveted resources of the forest lands.†   (source)
  • An open-walled hut occupied the center of the atrium, which sheltered a forge and an assortment of tools that Eragon knew even Horst would covet.†   (source)
  • She lived in a beautiful house near Valley Forge, which my mother coveted and by which she drove very quickly, so as not to appear to be coveting it.†   (source)
  • I coveted their wool coats.†   (source)
  • Inside the small living room central to their hooch—one of numerous small portable buildings that housed the squadron—was a flat-screen television, couches, and the coveted high-end espresso machine, the one luxury item Adam brought with him on deployments because he couldn't stand what he called "drip garbage" coffee.†   (source)
  • In the coveted, impeccable stamp of his office which can lead to far greater profits for a very long time.†   (source)
  • Magicians coveted such scrolls and books and would sacrifice almost anything to obtain them, for with them one could learn new words for a spell and also record therein words one had discovered.†   (source)
  • That I was a fraud and a coward and should not have coveted and accepted as I had done the confidence of people, their singular regard and trust.†   (source)
  • Max read many such stories concerning petty feuds, coveted heirlooms, and bloodstained jewels plucked warm, from an owner's hand.†   (source)
  • She lived in a beautiful house near Valley Forge, which my mother coveted and by which she drove very quickly, so as not to appear to be coveting it.†   (source)
  • And he is fast on his way to becoming a hermit-or so he thinks one night when he's alone with coveted music control and answers several knocks on the door, like Rob's social secretary.†   (source)
  • No one knew why a man who had always been so generous had begun to covet money with such anxiety, and not the modest amounts that would have been enough to resolve an emergency, but a fortune of such mad size that the mere mention of it left Aureliano Segundo awash in amazement.†   (source)
  • The ones closest to Safia, the ones who had been granted the coveted tables, would be spared the awful knowledge that they were about to die.†   (source)
  • There were several spaces available on the coveted first level of Lot B, but Safia directed Natalie to the second level instead.†   (source)
  • I had removed them from the files, feeling a rather wistful affection for my piece on Gundar Firkin, and coveting especially my musings on Kon-Tiki, about which I had the odd suspicion that they might comprise someday an interesting sheaf of literary marginalia.†   (source)
  • Sophie had coveted the phonograph until she could feel it like a wound in her breast, stealing glances at it as she passed to and fro through the living room on those trips it was necessary to make from her basement lodging to the attic.†   (source)
  • Thing of it was, any idiot in the school could see that Bobby didn't exactly come from a home brimming with goodwill and covetous treasures.†   (source)
  • He had seen them on the kingsroad, troupes of mothers and children and anxious fathers who had gazed on his horses and wagons with covetous eyes.†   (source)
  • Or is ambition and avarice, adulation, baseness, covetousness, the thirst for riches, indifference concerning the means of rising and enriching, the contempt of principle, the spirit of party and of faction the motive and principle that governs?†   (source)
  • There were Covetousness of Will's money, Treason toward his mother's God, Theft of time and hope, sick Rejection of love.†   (source)
  • But before we started I looked with a certain longing through the glass door at a Luigi Franchi 12-gauge double with a Purdy lock so beautiful that I was filled with covetousness.†   (source)
  • They, too, would have laid covetous eyes on Emmi's little radio; there were a few at least who were not beyond larceny and they, too, would scarcely be immune to suspicion.†   (source)
  • He had his eyes on the bone as if he coveted it.†   (source)
  • Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor.†   (source)
  • Winston immediately paid over the four dollars and slid the coveted thing into his pocket.†   (source)
  • I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.†   (source)
  • Oh, I've never denied coveting you, if that's what you mean.†   (source)
  • I am coveting her baby and Scarlett has been so good to me.†   (source)
  • I learned afterwards that Uncle Hoskins had been killed by whites who had long coveted his flourishing liquor business.†   (source)
  • There used to be great friendship between them and the people of Thror; and they often brought us secret news, and were rewarded with such bright things as they coveted to hide in their dwellings.†   (source)
  • The most coveted job in the Bureau!†   (source)
  • And whereas the wants of the Californians were nebulous and undefined, the wants of the Okies were beside the roads, lying there to be seen and coveted: the good fields with water to be dug for, the good green fields, earth to crumble experimentally in the hand, grass to smell, oaten stalks to chew until the sharp sweetness was in the throat.†   (source)
  • He coveted the shoes, and probably he would have liked for his father to have a broadcloth monkey to hand him the jug and to carry the wood and water into the cabin for his sisters to wash and cook with and keep the house warm so that he himself would not have to do it.†   (source)
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