outvie
Example Sentences
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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
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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
And now doth shine within its humble home A star, that doth each other so outvie, That grateful nature hails its lovely birth.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
Living, great nature fear’d he might outvie Her works; and dying, fears herself may die.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
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 Charles Rogers
