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

The birds haste away to the green holly bush, The blackbird now tries to outrival the thrush; They tip the tall branches on fluttering wing, Make nearer approaches, and merrily sing.

From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by Castillo, John

That is to say, it has refined itself into an abnormality, and from the innocent desire to collect, has shifted off into a selfish wish to outrival.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Hubbard, Elbert

The company consisted only of Lady Carnegie's starched cousins, with their husbands and their daughters, who yet hoped to outrival Nelly with her gloomy Lauderdale laird.

From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Tytler, Sarah