outvie
Example Sentences
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The dank fungus, luxuriant in its foul growth, emerged from the velvet moss as if to outvie in glow the variegated richness of the dried leaves of the forest.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth
The lapse of a few months transformed her from almost a homeless, friendless, impoverished widow, to be the bride of one whose advancing greatness seemed to outvie the wildest creations of fiction.
From Hortense Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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
Their study was to outvie each other in the grossness, and insincerity of their flattery.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
No product of the present can outvie the charms of such old silver.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
