"She is the only pearl I have," he said; "and now others will find out that she is pure and of price: they will covet her.
If he would but prove reliable, and he looked reliable, what, beyond his friendship, could I ever covet?
This allowance being more than I needed, I gave half to Ginevra; never varying in my preference, though many others used to covet the superfluity; and she in return would sometimes give me a portion of her coffee.
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
—Do you know that, twenty times a day, I covet Hareton, with all his degradation?
It is impossible that you can covet the admiration of Heathcliff—that you consider him an agreeable person!
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.
Chinese entertainment companies covet the prestige and expertise of established studios in the US, while cosy relations with Beijing bring Hollywood access to China's big audiences of newly affluent consumers.
One thing I did covet were the spectacular views some offices had over London — to sit all day with the city spread out before you must be agreeable.
There is always some rarity to covet in the smallest arboretum in the world.
And for a fee, Mtime will promote movies through all of these services, helping studios to quickly cover a market they covet but do not yet fully understand.
THE GOLD-THREADED ROBE Du Qiuniang Covet not a gold-threaded robe, Cherish only your young days!
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Heaven forbid that I should covet your riches; I will rather add to them, for I desire that you shall not leave my kingdom without some tokens of my good will.
