outstandings

Example Sentences

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First and last, he was an artist, and it is by reason of his technical mastery that he most of all outstands.

From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Judas Iscariot it is who outstands, overshadowing those other fishermen.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

She'll take him in five years' time, if he is still willing, and she outstands her market: but in the mean time she keeps him dangling.

From Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

In the front mid-distance the plateau of Pratzen outstands, declining suddenly on the right to a low flat country covered with marshes and pools now mostly obscured.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

But a tree blasted by lightning outstands the most radiant of living blossoms....

From Jane Oglander by Lowndes, Marie Belloc