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Meanings of covet in inglês

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Usage of covet in inglês
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Many see it as a move by Okowa to try covet support.
The South African
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We get tired of the old ways and covet the new ones.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
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But I enjoy - and covet - those growing two gardens away.
The Irish Times
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The prosperity we covet is more dangerous than the adversity we dread.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects / Written Partly on Sundry...
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When economies lack demand, governments covet spending that leaks overseas on imports.
The economist
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I have never coveted it from you, and do not covet it.
Castle Richmond
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The amrita here that these covet is, of course, the Sacrificial libation.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament
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They covet the colonel's business: they think well of the proposed extension.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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But I am not sure that I do not most covet No.
A Wanderer in Florence
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But men sometimes covet death out of hope of a greater good.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 09
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I wish for Retirement & covet Leisure as a Miser does money.
The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4
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She had just spotted an item she knew her masters would covet.
The accident man
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These he was too humble to covet, and too earnest to refuse.
Life of Bunyan
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Wherefore brethren covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
The first New Testament printed in English
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I was starting to covet that man's authority for my very own.
Karen Memory
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