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Definition of Rivalled
1. rival [v] - See also: rival
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rivalled
Literary usage of Rivalled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"... perhaps never rivalled by any private j person, no less remarkable for its
extent than for its completeness and historical and literary interest. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"Is rivalled in the King's favour by Arnold Van Keppel, afterwards Earl of
Albemarle.—Dies of a pleurisy and malignant fever in 1709. ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... amid his children's merry shouts and ours, fairly rivalled the professor at
his own art. Sunday.—WE have been to church for the first time in England. ..."
4. The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History by John Owen (1896)
"Who hath rivalled me—I will repay him. What is under the whole heaven is mine.
I will not pass over his limbs, Nor his strength, nor the form of his build. ..."
5. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"I'll tell you what, Mr Egan," replied Curran, his pistol in his hand, and Egan
scowling at him under brows that rivalled Lord Thurlow's—" I wish to take no ..."
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