emulous
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Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew Pranken, he knew tins everlasting galloping style of utterance, which is always so extremely animated, and even becomes enthusiastic when the conversation can be turned into an emulous contest of raillery.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
A friend—envious and emulous of the detective work so minutely described by Conan Doyle—was driving last summer on an old New England road entirely unfamiliar to him.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
With all the alacrity of men fresh and "eager for the fray," they began the ascent, and, such was the emulous ardor to be first, that it assumed all the features of a race.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
An emulous industry was never more apparent than in this beautiful assembly.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
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