outvie

Example Sentences

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But nature often takes a fancy to outvie her skilful and ambitious handmaiden, and is always certain to succeed in the competition.

From The Widow's Dog by Mitford, Mary Russell

When Heaven its gracious manna hail'd, 'Twas vain who hoarded its supply, Not all his miser care avail'd His neighbour's portion to outvie.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Try to outvie and outdo and even affront that dove-like simplicity he used to adore in you, and into which you are still apt to relapse.

From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

There Nature reigns, whose works outvie The boldest pattern art can frame; There ages past have rolled away, And forests bloomed but to decay.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

The immense fortune of the duke, his refined taste, and the grandeur of the saloons of his ancestral palace, enabled him almost to outvie royalty itself in the brilliance of the fête.

From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)