outvie
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Not only did he love his work with all the passion of a creator, he was also concerned to outvie his professional rivals.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
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 Mary Russell Mitford
In this way, all the world may be an aristocrat, and play the duke among marquises, and the reigning monarch among dukes, if he will only outvie them in tranquility.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
Dancing, the dissonant corybantes of the Dionysian evangel flitted by, scarce touching earth in their efforts to outvie the Bacchantes.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
To outvie one another in celebrations of births, weddings, deaths and coronations they beggar themselves.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
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