outvie

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To outvie one another in celebrations of births, weddings, deaths and coronations they beggar themselves.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold

Also sprach Tolstoy in that madman's book called What is Art? a work wherein he tried to outvie Nordau's abuse of beautiful art.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

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

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 Campbell, Thomas

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