outvie

Example Sentences

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Around me a number of whip-poor-wills strove to outvie each other in uninterruptedly uttering their name, and frequently circled round my fire.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

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

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

The songs which I held so high before, sounded toneless and weak, unworthy the feeblest learner; and yet, befooled by a vain presumption, I burned to outvie you all.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

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