outshone

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LOCK: Sam Whitelock, New Zealand Outshone his more esteemed second-row teammate Brodie Retallick, and was a key player in the final with his takes at the restart and fine work in the loose.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2015

Not to be confused with the British poet and civil servant who wrote High on a throne of royal state which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind .

From Time Magazine Archive

Outshone by the shimmer of the orphreys and the stones, the costumes of the other judges appeared darker and discordant.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

We played at chess one wintry night Beside the fire, that warm and bright   Was mirrored in her hazel eyes;   Methought a gleam from Paradise Outshone the back-log's flickering light.

From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

Outshone The childish frocks and childish tresses Of the late cast that had put on Demureness and its party dresses.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 by Various