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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

The Foote girls began again, with rich profusion of detail, their voices rising shrill, one above the other, and playing together at their full height like emulous fountains.

From The Crux by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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

Zephyr and Flora emulous conspire To breathe their graces o'er the field's attire; The one gives healthful freshness, one the hue Fairer than e'er creative pencil drew.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

Thomas Cavendish, emulous of Drake’s example, fitted out three vessels for an expedition to the South sea in 1586.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various