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
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 Tytler, Sarah
"The Vierle Balls outrival even the Court functions," she explained.
From The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by Scott, John Reed
The old gentleman before the blaze began to outrival the kettle in steaming; from his coat-tails a thin veil of mist ascended, his face beaming through the vapor with benign felicity.
From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison
