Lexicographical Neighbors of Outmastering
Literary usage of Outmastering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best British Short Stories of edited by John Cournos, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"... petulant derision; of a bitterness outmastering control. Rachel shivered, but
held her ground before the mirror. She had nothing to fear from that ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1842)
"... that he hurled him ten feet out of his saddle, and his own horse outmastering
his bridle-arm, drove on, with his lance still unbroken and in its rest, ..."
3. The Appeal to Life by Theodore Thornton Munger (1887)
"As such a spirit grows better, the more keenly will1 remorse bite it, outmastering
the dulling power of time, and haunting the conscience with deathless ..."
4. The Percy Family: The Baltic to Vesuvius by Daniel Clarke Eddy (1868)
"... the delicacy of fabrics, and outmastering the artisans of civilization in the
statuary which God himself has been setting up here for ages on ages past. ..."
5. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1903)
"... our guide, The enemy now to charge in chief ; and while Their force by ours
outmastering, force and guile Alike crushed, bind, in love's constraining ..."
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