outvie
Example Sentences
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They may talk of the viol, and its strings they may try all, For the heart's dance, outvie all, the songs of the dairy!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Her main endeavor in this is to outvie her neighbors in the extravagance of fashion.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
And now doth shine within its humble home A star, that doth each other so outvie, That grateful nature hails its lovely birth.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
Living, great nature fear’d he might outvie Her works; and dying, fears herself may die.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
I mean this feast," said she, "as a reward of industry and piety, and not as a trial of skill who can be finest and outvie the rest in show.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More
