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You are envying a bum: Has it come to this, at last?

From The New Yorker • Jul. 27, 2015

Looking round the table I can see four girls at least who are envying you from the bottom of their hearts.

From The Slave of Silence by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

"I suppose some of them are envying me," he thought to himself, with a smile.

From The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus by Alger, Horatio

We all suppose our trials to be exceptional, and the chances are that the people we are envying are envying us.

From The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

THE most uncomfortable thing about being married is that you can never tell whether your friends are envying you or pitying you.

From Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Rowland, Helen