outvie

Example Sentences

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To outvie one another in celebrations of births, weddings, deaths and coronations they beggar themselves.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold

There Nature reigns, whose works outvie The boldest pattern art can frame; There ages past have rolled away, And forests bloomed but to decay.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

Then Mrs Hamps returned the bow with superb extravagance, like an Oriental monarch who is determined to outvie magnificently the gifts of another.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

But when one is given it seems to be the general’s purpose to outvie all that rumor hath spoken of the Mischianza.

From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Madison, Lucy Foster

Not only did he love his work with all the passion of a creator, he was also concerned to outvie his professional rivals.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)