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Father Malachi spoke with venom in his voice that Judy would be jealous of.
It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon.
As the most beautiful of God's archangels he became jealous of God's appointed heir and, gathering other angels around him, mounted a challenge.
Older players in the team are jealous of school-boys as they represent their lost youth.
She seemed to be somewhat jealous of the fact that my attentions were divided equally among everyone else in the office and not just at her.
I was jealous of the two friends who settled for a Duck confit salad with poached egg.
It maddened her tremendously that they should all be mockingly jealous of Earl Mowbray's betrothed.
Maybe the mother still carries a torch for her child's father and is jealous of his new woman.
He says the Minimoog was a godsend to keyboard players who were jealous of guitarists and their biblically long solos.
Keira has done really well, and not for one moment am I jealous of her success.
An irascible bachelor, he was often vitriolic in his criticism of the work of other artists, and jealous of their successes.
She admits to feeling jealous of her younger brother's darker skin, thick straight hair and wide brown eyes.
They are contemptuous of fundamental human rights and jealous of any source of power apart from their own.
I couldn't go, I had interviews and meetings, but was jealous of those who did, as I've never been surfing in my life.
After all you have to be envious of somebody to feel jealous of them, right?
I was jealous of my best friend, who had just dumped the girl I was falling for.
My personal view, admittedly pretty neurotic, is that the politician is jealous of hardworking people who can manage to have a good time.
She said they were jealous of her genius and resented her because she was a woman.
We are trying to put an entertaining team on the park, and some people are jealous of that.
His house is huge and his dogs were so happy and friendly when I arrived, but now the oldest seems jealous of the attention he is giving me.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was not the man to undersell the profession, and was jealous of nobody, having a large practice, and a very wealthy wife.
It was determined to get possession of Salonika, and was madly jealous of Greece.
He is very jealous of divo Pan, and if he hears you praising him, will do something to you.
Brown was no doubt jealous of his rival, but Addison's generous heart formed a very different estimate of D'Urfey's talent.
The folklorist is not unnaturally jealous of what, in some degree, looks like Folk-Lore.
Like all small-minded men, Louis was jealous of superior merit and preferred mediocrity rather than genius in his ministers.
Launceston and Hobart are as jealous of each other, if not more so, than Melbourne and Sydney.
In reality they were jealous of each other with an inconceivable intensity.
The country swarms with savage Indians, who are jealous of the intrusions of strangers.
Even the most jealous of that most jealous of professions, surgery, had to admit that he got results.
He, like the other pashas, was jealous of Williams, and wished Kars to fall.
As a boy he had been rather jealous of her lacemaking, declaring that it was dearer to her than he himself was.
Now all the ladies were jealous of La Limeuil, who at that time was thinking of yielding to the handsome lavalliere.
I have been often jealous of this leman in my little airings and poultry-visits.
Poets declared that Proserpine became jealous of Cocytus's daughter, Minthe, whom she transformed into the plant.
What woman might not have been jealous of his enthusiasm for the Roman Hera?
His enemies, meanly jealous of his popularity, often declared that he was a monarchist.
Now he was fond of his wife to a degree of madness, and on that account was unmeasurably jealous of her.
He's gone off hunting navajos, and he's too jealous of her to leave her there by herself.
Well, he was most jealous of Van Doren, who was in his last year at Columbia, and whose father was rich and indulgent.
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