outvie

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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

Their study was to outvie each other in the grossness, and insincerity of their flattery.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

The immense fortune of the duke, his refined taste, and the grandeur of the saloons of his ancestral palace, enabled him almost to outvie royalty itself in the brilliance of the fête.

From Louis Philippe 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

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