Both Uses of
covet
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.†
Chpt 2 *covet = strongly desire
- Tom presently wondered to find that his coveted vacation was beginning to hang a little heavily on his hands.†
Chpt 22coveted = strongly wanted
Definition:
to strongly want (something--especially something that belongs to another)