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Definition of Outvying
1. outvie [v] - See also: outvie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outvying
Literary usage of Outvying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism by Truman J. Spencer (1891)
"From all the hills the maples wave Their gold and scarlet banners, With tints
outvying those which lave The evening's cloud-built manors. ..."
2. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"The pastime of princes, all others outvying, No sport upon earth with the chase
can compare. Yoho ! tra, la, la ! &c. Not even with day is the hunter's ..."
3. The Presbyterian Magazine edited by Cortlandt Van Rensselaer (1856)
"Thine is the magic spell With deepest tones the human heart to thrill; The power,
outvying feeble speech, to tell Tidings of good or ill. ..."
4. The Christian Treasury (1867)
"... Thine is the magic spell With widest touch the human heart to thrill; The
power outvying feeble speech to tell Tidings of good or ill. ..."
5. The Casquet of Literary Gems by Alexander Whitelaw (1828)
"... The hound in the greenwood, the hawk in the air The pastime of princes, all
others outvying, No sport upon earth with the chase can compare. ..."
6. Shaffner's Telegraph Companion: Devoted to the Science and Art of the Morse by Taliaferro Preston Shaffner (1854)
"With deepest tones the human heart to thrill; The power, outvying feeble speech,
to tell Thine is the magic spell Tidings of gooil or ill. ..."
7. The Stanley tales, original and select by Ambrose Marten (1827)
"... The hound in the greenwood, the hawk in the air I The pastime of princes, all
others outvying, No sport upon earth with the chase can compare. ..."
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