"I never was covetous, Jane," she replied; "but I have six children and have buried three, and I didn't marry into money.
Undoubtedly Lady Caroline had cast covetous glances at the honey-coloured room, and if she, Mrs.
This fable applied to the covetous.
Covetous of the peach, he devised an evil scheme.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD) Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625) Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
" The covetous are poor givers.
Then the bailiff was satisfied, for he, too, was a covetous fellow.
The covetous father asked, how is it with regard to his means.
