surpass

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The follies natural to each Surpass the other’s moral reach.

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

Surpass thyself even in thy neighbour: and a right which thou canst seize upon, shalt thou not allow to be given thee!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Surpass not these, sweet love, for very shame, But let my tears, my vows, my sighs entreat; Then shall I say as by trial find; These all are hard, but you, my love, are kind.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote

Far as Phæacian mariners all else Surpass, the swift ship urging through the floods, 130 So far in tissue-work the women pass All others, by Minerva’s self endow’d With richest fancy and superior skill.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

Surpass, sur-pas′, v.t. to pass beyond: to exceed: to excel: to go past in space.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various