Suspecting unfaithfulness

Usage examples of jealous.

Now, Ferguson, to put your charges against Rochester in concrete form, you believe that he was insanely jealous of Jimmie Turnbull, that he recognized him in the Police Court in his burglar disguise, slipped a dose of aconitine in a glass of water which Turnbull drank, and after declaring that his friend had died from angina pectoris, disappeared.

Felice and Amice must be inside with Mother Winifred, who was notoriously jealous of her domain.

A great enemy to all jealous persons, and a greater friend to my amorous fancies, I wrote to the young girl that, if she would leave her cousin for me, I would give her a house in which she should be the mistress, and that I would surround her with good society and with every luxury to be found in Venice.

Convicted by her amorous and jealous margarve of infidelity, she had been sent about her business.

She smiled at Amrita, and I found myself jealous, wishing that I had been the recipient of that benediction.

And as a queen disguised might pass anear The bitter crowd that barters in a mart, Veiling her pride while tears of pity start, I hide my glory thru a jealous fear.

The situation of many women, she explained, was not much improved under the anima, for only one woman could be queen, and the queen tended to be jealous of her prerogatives.

He would need a tribe where the government was not as jealous of its power as the Anointed of the Chosen.

One day, vexed at my answering her question as to the reason of my change towards her by stating that I had no cause for it, she, told me in a tone of commiseration that I was jealous of Cordiani.

Crushed though her rival the Khania Atene might be, also she was still jealous of her.

I best not tell Nancy, or she might comeup and ave a jealous fit all over the room.

Scholastica avenged me by reproaching her for having obliged me to appear either rude or jealous, or a breaker of my word.

These men, uniting themselves to the enthusiasts, whose genius is naturally averse to clerical usurpations, exercised so jealous an authority over the assembly of divines, that they allowed them nothing but the liberty of tendering advice, and would not intrust them even with the power of electing their own chairman or his substitute, or of supplying the vacancies of their own members.

Men like me, Baas, who know that now and again it is wise to cease from being wise, lest Heaven should grow jealous of our wisdom and want to share it.

I went out, and on meeting the fair cousin I told her that I was jealous of the honour which she had done my man, and that I begged her to wait on him no longer.