bear the palm

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Quite free from flattery, I say, Your countrymen, for penetration, Must bear the palm from every nation; For e'en the dogs they breed excel Our own in nicety of smell.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

And no man of this band can bear the palm from me in the use of those powers which Heaven has given us.'

From The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Let him who has won bear the palm.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George

Now patriotism is one thing, and fine clothes another; but there are times when cold beef will bear the palm from either.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno