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Envies are gone, and the measuring stick is: “Was he loved or was he hated? Is his death felt as a loss or does a kind of joy come of it?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The shepherd who, beside the murmuring brooks, Leans on his true love's breast, nor cares to look After his straying lambs, in that sweet hour Envies me not my thunderbolt of power!
From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Schiller, Friedrich
Grasshopper Green has a quaint little house, It's under a hedge so gay, Grandmother spider as still as a mouse, Envies him o'er the way.
From The Nursery, May 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various
Sleep guards itself against the hands of foes: Its breath disarms the Envies and the Hates Which haunt our lives: were this mine enemy, My stealthy watch could not less reverent be!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
Another—but can'st thou discern Envies and jealousies that burn?
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John
