covetously

Only the eyes remained constant, regarding him covetously through this transformation.

She looks covetously at a toddler, murmuring: "You could be mine."

The poet looked on covetously as long as he could restrain himself.

My guest was gazing covetously at the richly patterned china on our table.

Big companies covetously eyed the growing labor pool and the comparatively low price of doing business in the suburbs.

A shadowy form took shape above the totem, coiled around it covetously.

Meanwhile, our cousins from the steppes look at us covetously; and await their turn.

I noticed theatergoers eyeing them covetously, just the same.

Richard Nixon had achieved the goal he had sought so covetously for many years.

Decker's mood changed quickly as he looked around covetously at Asher's office.

He ran his hand covetously over Armand's shoulders.

Mary Ann watched mother and baby covetously.

Much of the United States travel industry has long been eyeing the island, and no segment more covetously than cruise lines.

At meals, she gaped covetously at the goods he drew from his backpack.

Luke stared covetously at the pearl-handled Colt resting on the dead man's chest.

Ned Turner began to play covetously with the heap of sparkling gems piled before him on the table.

I eyed the twenty thousand dollars covetously.

Many potential takeover targets, though, remain deeply suspicious of the outsiders that are eying them so covetously.

An aggressive commander, Miles thought covetously.

The train butcher eyed the twenty-dollar bill covetously.

He eyed Data again covetously.

Topthor looked rather covetously at these valuable documents.

But still he held it fast, carressing it covetously.

He means that the love so given to one near in blood is covetously withheld from some stranger who, it may be, hungers for it.