outvie

Example Sentences

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Her main endeavor in this is to outvie her neighbors in the extravagance of fashion.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

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 Lang, Andrew

Thou canst not raise thy thoughts too high; As spreads above the earth the sky, So do his thoughts thy thoughts outvie: Believe good things of God.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

It seemed, indeed, that the Danish and Swedish knights, at this joyful festivity, only sought to outvie each other in gentle bearing and knightly courtesies.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

The garden was a little paradise, in which nature and art seemed to outvie each other in offering attractions to eye, ear, and taste.

From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.