outvie

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The dank fungus, luxuriant in its foul growth, emerged from the velvet moss as if to outvie in glow the variegated richness of the dried leaves of the forest.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander

The lapse of a few months transformed her from almost a homeless, friendless, impoverished widow, to be the bride of one whose advancing greatness seemed to outvie the wildest creations of fiction.

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

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

On the other hand, to the student of manners, novels have a value no historian can outvie, and on this account alone Miss Edgeworth's should not be left unread.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen

But thee, Love, he made Lest man should defy him, Connive and outvie him, And not be afraid: Nay, thee, Love, he gave His terrors to cover, And turn to a lover His insolent slave. 

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert