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Definition of Outbuilt
1. outbuild [v] - See also: outbuild
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbuilt
Literary usage of Outbuilt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"The king hath outbuilt manifold the proposal of the council board itself in the
project of 200.000/. per annum.*4 The king and duke contrivers for the ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"... such ' outbuilt,' holy, living men, breathing an atmosphere of such lofty
thought and deep devotion, I cannot hope .again to meet together on this side ..."
3. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop (1883)
"Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how
the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? ..."
4. The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor by Oscar Douglas Skelton (1921)
"The British had now outbuilt their opponents on Lake Ontario; and, though American
ships controlled Lake Erie ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn her annual cell? Or how
the sacred pine-tree adds To her old ..."
6. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how
the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? ..."
7. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how
the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? ..."
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