envier
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enviers
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Quoth the envier, 'I have journeyed hither on purpose to tell thee a piece of good news.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
This woman is not so ill as she doth make believe, but practiseth deceit upon thee and I ween that some enemy or envier hath plotted a plot against me and thee.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Abide he bade him: nor was need To bid when Balen wheeled his steed Fiercely, less fain by word than deed To bid his envier evil speed, And cried, “What wilt thou with me?”
From The Tale of Balen by Algernon Charles Swinburne
And thus I grasp thy amplitudes, of her Ungrasped, though helped by nigh-regarding eyes; Canst thou then hate me as an envier Who see unrecked what I so dearly prize?
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Then, said the envier, order the Faḳeers to retire to their cells, for the information that I am about to give thee I would have no one overhear.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
Lucky for garden enviers, many of those gates will be opening wide this spring as part of the annual fundraising tradition known as garden tours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
His downfall brought him closer to their level, and thus allowed his enviers to feel better about themselves.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2013
He was such a big target that his enemies and enviers made feature-length documentaries against him, like Michael Moore Hates America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Olaf bade Gunnar to be ware of himself, and said he had many enviers, "For now thou art thought to be a famous man throughout all the land."
From The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor by Unknown
Men had need beware, how they be too perfect in compliments; for be they never so sufficient otherwise, their enviers will be sure to give them that attribute, to the disadvantage of their greater virtues.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
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