She had been feeling envious for a long time of the higher life of the state, where there was now heroism, renown, and vigor, and where the youth and strength of an old woman, vainly expended in deprivation and horror in the old days, were in demand again.
In the years after returning to London in 2001 I was amazed at friends wheeling dealing talk of flats, properties, buying up Bulgaria and trips to Thailand - I was to say a little envious - me just in my first graduate job felt as if they where racing ahead.
On top of all that, a wave of envious rivals with copycat products is quickly appearing on the scene.
For a country with an envious unemployment rate of 4.9%, it seemed an odd change in priorities.
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The cynical or the socially envious will take that to mean a feeling of protection from the hoi polloi, including the many of us who drive feeble regular cars.
Drop a rope ladder to the envious Jets fans, still fuming from an exasperating season and another Rex Ryan prediction that came up short.
This man is envious of me, Tengo began to think at a certain point.
After a quarter in which investors appeared to be having a bad romance with stocks, the market has been reeling off hits at a pace that would make even Lady Gaga envious.
Fellow Ohioan Dick Mastin, 73, a retired corporate pilot, admits he was "always envious" of Mr. Miller's Stuart and jumped at the chance to buy it.
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As he tried to hold the line on the conference that wasn't, Mr Davies must have cast an envious look around the chamber at the three other leaders who enjoy far more of a grip on their parties than he could ever hope to have.
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