Example Sentences

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You will have good times together and I am envying him the privilege.

From The High Calling by Sheldon, Charles Monroe

How can I have any Christian fellowship with a man when I am envying him his successes and grudging him his honors?

From Children's Rights A book of nursery logic by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

I am envying that peasant with his delicious melon on the rock there.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

At present I am envying you that trip to Champèry.

From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis