outrival
Example Sentences
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But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other .
From Time Magazine Archive
In death as in life he still remains a man of mystery, with a fortune that would outrival the wildest dreams of a fairy prince.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gideon observed his comrade's seeming devotion, and appearing determined to outrival him in excess of zeal, applied himself more sedulously than ever to his book.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
She knew full well that she could yet outrival younger women, that even her much-admired daughter-in-law would not place her in the shade.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
The company consisted only of Lady Carnegie's starched cousins, with their husbands and their daughters, who yet hoped to outrival Nelly with her gloomy Lauderdale laird.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
