bear the palm

Example Sentences

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Let him who has won bear the palm.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George

Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone!

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.

I hear, Tell, you're a master with the bow— From every rival bear the palm away.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

So, too, in laments for the dead, the superior brevity and simplicity of Martial bear the palm away.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

I hear, Tell, you're a master with the bow, From every rival bear the palm away.

From Wilhelm Tell by Martin, Theodore