bear the palm

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And when the race is run, the victory given, How sweet with the redeemed to bear the palm, Ten thousand times ten thousand saints in Heaven, Who hymn eternal praises to the Lamb!

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul

So, too, in laments for the dead, the superior brevity and simplicity of Martial bear the palm away.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

Under such a criterion the most popular work of art would necessarily bear the palm of supremacy.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

I hear, Tell, you're a master with the bow,— And bear the palm away from every rival.

From Wilhelm Tell by Schiller, Friedrich

Prynne's fellow pamphleteers, Bastwick and Burton, were not far behind him in the violence of their invectives, but the lawyer must be admitted to bear the palm for sharp sayings.

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)