Ah, the long-coveted chance almost within her reach!
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
This monastery is the coveted place of burial to the soldier, statesman, and poet.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
In this room he sat day after day, and slept night after night, until he almost became afraid of the quiet that he believed he coveted when he came to Davy's Bend; and at times he looked longingly toward the speaking-tube behind the door, hoping it would whistle an announcement that a visitor had arrived; for his habit of sitting quietly looking at nothing, until his thoughts became so disagreeable that he took long walks about the place to rid himself of them, was growing upon him.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe