Significados de more covetous en inglés

But the sight of these things only made Tiidu more covetous than before.

Hence, the more people are employed in the acquisition of affluence or competence, the more covetous they usually become.

The joy at winning back his money only makes a gamester the more covetous of winning that of his adversary.

But the folk of that city were more covetous than the men of Lucca, and harder than they of Perugia.

The Nis took as much as he thought he could well carry, but the boy was more covetous, and said-

Men in trade in America are not more covetous than tradesmen in England, nor probably are they more generous or philanthropical.

As years went by, they lost all the innocence of the early world; they grew more and more covetous and evil-hearted.

The same can be said of the Ulsterman and he will be casting more covetous glances at Roque Santa Cruz this evening.

He was a good commander, though we used often to wonder whether he was more covetous than cruel, or more cruel than covetous.

The Sol barrier, though, had brought back all her anxieties in the same way it had seen a resurgence of his more covetous traits.

And if we understand what life here means, we shall be more covetous of spheres of diligent service than of places of shining dignity.