outvie

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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

The garden was a little paradise, in which nature and art seemed to outvie each other in offering attractions to eye, ear, and taste.

From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.

But nature often takes a fancy to outvie her skilful and ambitious handmaiden, and is always certain to succeed in the competition.

From The Widow's Dog by Mitford, Mary Russell

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

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold

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)