outvie

Example Sentences

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It seemed, indeed, that the Danish and Swedish knights, at this joyful festivity, only sought to outvie each other in gentle bearing and knightly courtesies.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

No product of the present can outvie the charms of such old silver.

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.

On the other hand, to the student of manners, novels have a value no historian can outvie, and on this account alone Miss Edgeworth's should not be left unread.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen

To outvie one another in celebrations of births, weddings, deaths and coronations they beggar themselves.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold

Thou canst not raise thy thoughts too high; As spreads above the earth the sky, So do his thoughts thy thoughts outvie: Believe good things of God.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James