outvie

Example Sentences

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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

"Living, great Nature feared he might outvie Her works, and, dying, fears herself to die."

From Famous European Artists by Bolton, Sarah K.

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 Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

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 Huth, Alexander

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 Pope, Alexander