outrival

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But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other .

From Time Magazine Archive

In death as in life he still remains a man of mystery, with a fortune that would outrival the wildest dreams of a fairy prince.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their names were few,—but Agassiz was one, And Peirce, the lord of numbers, and alone: Arithmeticians many more will be, But when another to outrival thee?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

The old gentleman before the blaze began to outrival the kettle in steaming; from his coat-tails a thin veil of mist ascended, his face beaming through the vapor with benign felicity.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

St. Michael's Cave is said to rival, if it does not outrival, the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John