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 William Wordsworth
With all the alacrity of men fresh and "eager for the fray," they began the ascent, and, such was the emulous ardor to be first, that it assumed all the features of a race.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
This treat gives fresh animation to the emulous tongues.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
Excited by the chase, and emulous each to outrun the other, the colonel threw off his shako, and Briolle his sword, in the ardour of pursuit.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
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