outvie

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I mean this feast," said she, "as a reward of industry and piety, and not as a trial of skill who can be finest and outvie the rest in show.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah

Around me a number of whip-poor-wills strove to outvie each other in uninterruptedly uttering their name, and frequently circled round my fire.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

And now doth shine within its humble home A star, that doth each other so outvie, That grateful nature hails its lovely birth.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Then Mrs Hamps returned the bow with superb extravagance, like an Oriental monarch who is determined to outvie magnificently the gifts of another.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

Dancing, the dissonant corybantes of the Dionysian evangel flitted by, scarce touching earth in their efforts to outvie the Bacchantes.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James