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
No product of the present can outvie the charms of such old silver.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
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
Try to outvie and outdo and even affront that dove-like simplicity he used to adore in you, and into which you are still apt to relapse.
From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Around me a number of whip-poor-wills strove to outvie each other in uninterruptedly uttering their name, and frequently circled round my fire.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
