outvie

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The lapse of a few months transformed her from almost a homeless, friendless, impoverished widow, to be the bride of one whose advancing greatness seemed to outvie the wildest creations of fiction.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

The average wool-sorter will outvie an artist in his perception of colour shades.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial

Not only did he love his work with all the passion of a creator, he was also concerned to outvie his professional rivals.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

The dank fungus, luxuriant in its foul growth, emerged from the velvet moss as if to outvie in glow the variegated richness of the dried leaves of the forest.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander

In this way, all the world may be an aristocrat, and play the duke among marquises, and the reigning monarch among dukes, if he will only outvie them in tranquility.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew