Nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men, that take a pride in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer.
When it came, you were sitting with some friends at the next table, regarding me with an admiring and covetous glance, that glance which had always thrilled me beyond expression. 你和幾個朋友坐在鄰桌，你用讚賞的渴慕的目光看着我，就用你那一向撩撥得我心蕩神馳的目光看着我。
Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.
The most covetous griping Miser in the World would have been cur'd of the Vice of Covetousness, if he had been in my Case; for I possess'd infinitely more than I knew what to do with.
Being too covetous for wealth is bad for one's health, particularly mental health.
Yinchuan cloth Tiehua is very famous, you can say that we are admiring, he helped us to the village home, I see a covetous look, always pull my clothes, where time to yo.
Meanwhile, foreign beer tycoons cast covetous eyes on China's market and have been entering China's market by investing directly or buying shares of some domestic leading beer manufacturers.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.
they are avaricious and will do anything for money; casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields; a grasping old miser; grasping commercialism; greedy for money and power; grew richer and greedier; prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees.
He raised his head, with a look of unrestrained greed in his covetous eyes.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
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