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
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
Fired by this hope I hurried back to my carriage, preceded at an emulous gallop by the officials.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
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
A babel of oaths and sporting outcries shook the place, pierced from the street without by the strains of an emulous organ-grinder jocularly jerking out the tango.
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
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