Example Sentences

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Then I bid leave the harbour and sit down at the thwarts; emulously my comrades strike the water, and sweep through the seas.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Lo! modern Critics emulously dare     Ape the great Despot; throw in pompous tone     And massy words their true no meaning down!

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

They then galloped emulously back to me for applause, still bitterly contesting every inch of the snipe, and, having grudgingly relinquished the fragments, waited wild-eyed and panting, with tongues hanging like aprons to their knees.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

It gave him high satisfaction that both the great powers emulously courted the favour and friendship of his King, of which he seemed to have the disposal.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

The German bugle sounded the "Advance rapidly," and the men emulously ran forward, shouting loud hurrahs.

From The Invasion by Le Queux, William