It was not until the second summer that Daylight built the huge fireplace that outrivalled Ferguson's across the valley. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nineveh, which had outrivalled Damascus, the Smile of the ❋ Unknown (2006)
She had plenty to eat, as much tobacco as was good for her, and outer raiment that in gaudiness outrivalled the flame-tree and the yellow hibiscus. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As for practical success they are outrivalled by the officials, who are men of business. ❋ Unknown (1962)
In a commercial competition too, the Great Western Canal of the States would be quite outrivalled by such a superior navigation. ❋ Charles Roger (N/A)
Great Jupiter, king of the Martian night, whose brilliancy, if not his size, outrivalled the pale moons; Saturn, with his tilted ring, was visible to the naked eye; and yon pearly blue star, just rising to announce the morning, was Earth. ❋ Ellsworth Douglass (N/A)
Mulgrave, all set sail during this year, and in a few years discoveries were made which outrivalled all which had occurred since the expeditions of Columbus. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
This was not because the virtues of the person, in whose honour it was raised, were so conspicuous, or because they so far outrivalled those recorded on the other arches, that men were constrained to stop and ponder over a life so remarkable for its heroism. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Stories that outrivalled the Arabian Nights clouded the realm of reason. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)
The long walks, when, to make up for play, her father told her of foreign places with magical names, outrivalled in enchantment any legendary fables. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Ormskirk had for Lord Brudenel's society the liking that a successful person usually preserves for posturing in the gaze of his outrivalled school-fellows: ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
It was not a large piece of silver but its workmanship outrivalled the skill of the bees. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)
[Page 138] them she has outrivalled all her erstwhile conceptions. ❋ Unknown (1911)
They are the acme of Nature's architecture, and in building them she has outrivalled all her erstwhile conceptions. ❋ Unknown (1911)
The dining rooms on the street level were closed and unlighted: but men and women in pairs and parties were streaming across the sidewalk from an endless chain of motor-cars and being ground through the revolving doors like grist in the hopper of an unhallowed mill, the men all in evening dress, the women in garments whose insolence outrivalled the most Byzantine nights of L'Abbaye ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
Ordinarily reverses such as this had seemed merely to serve to put Duncan on his mettle, to infuse him with a determination to try again and win out, whatever the odds; and at such times he was accustomed to exhibit a mad irresponsibility of wit and a gaiety of spirit (whether it were a mask or no) that only outrivalled his high good humour when things ostensibly were going well with him. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
Constantinople, which after fifteen centuries still perpetuates the name of its imperial founder, had outrivalled Rome. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)
Here he remained standing, his hands thrust deep into the pockets of his Norfolk coat, his eyes fixed absently on the last gleam of light in the west, where all that now remained of the sunset's stormy splendour was a handful of filmy fragments, like rose petals dropped from some Olympian rose-bush, and the sickle of a young moon, outrivalled by the mellow radiance of the evening star. ❋ Maud Diver (1906)
Tilly, who, in the campaign of 1625-26, outrivalled him, by successfully combating the invasion of Christian and his Danish forces, and driving them beyond the Elbe. ❋ Unknown (1906)
