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Definition of Outwrestled
1. outwrestle [v] - See also: outwrestle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwrestled
Literary usage of Outwrestled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American in Paris by John Sanderson (1838)
"What signifies the strength of Hercules, if it may be outwrestled by a vapour ?—It
is vexatious, too, to see how much ..."
2. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1914)
"And they tell of a rtain Spartan who refused to be bought off from a contest at
Olympia by large sums of money, and after a long struggle outwrestled his ..."
3. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"But that this is lawful in poetry, is shown by the great and peculiar pleasure
that it gives : as in the description of the nymph, who has outwrestled ..."
4. On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
"Worthless persons of little or no estimation for rank, learning, or integrity,
not seldom profligates, with whom debauchery has outwrestled rapacity, ..."
5. Lay Sermons by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1852)
"Worthless persons of little or no estimation for rank, learning, or integrity,
not seldom profligates, with whom debauchery has outwrestled rapacity, ..."
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