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The Emperor of Japan's mechanical nightingale outsings the Emperor of China's live one, but breaks down in the attempt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then is there music, indeed, for no bird outsings the spurred lark; and thanks to OLD-man he is not wanting in numbers, either.

From Indian Why Stories Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire by Linderman, Frank Bird

And so am I, to write this 'personal talk' to you when you will not care for it—yet you asked me, and it may make you smile, though Wordsworth's tea-kettle outsings it all.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

Who outfaces skies, outsings the storms, Whose soul has roamed Infinite-homed Through tents of Space, His hand in the dim Great Hand that forms All wonder.

From The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Lee, Gerald Stanley

His low and modulated voice starts a note of music whose rhythmic accents have not done sounding and whose heavenly harmony outsings the discords of earth.

From Why I Preach the Second Coming by Haldeman, Isaac Massey