emulous

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Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent.

From Time Magazine Archive

C. With emulous brightness through the clear blue Heaven.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William

And at the head of this urbane and flourishing commonwealth sat the great Umeyyad khalifa, emulous of the glories of Bagdad and Cairo, and eager to surpass them in elegance and splendour.

From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

Ludolf was a swaggering bravo, emulous, at middle age, of the vices of profligate youth.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

The colonists were emulous of one another as to which of them should harbor the new arrivals until they could provide for themselves.

From The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter by Sue, Eugène