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But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other .

From Time Magazine Archive

In death as in life he still remains a man of mystery, with a fortune that would outrival the wildest dreams of a fairy prince.

From Time Magazine Archive

The birds haste away to the green holly bush, The blackbird now tries to outrival the thrush; They tip the tall branches on fluttering wing, Make nearer approaches, and merrily sing.

From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by Castillo, John

If the devotion of two people to one another seemed likely to outrival their devotion to the Cause, then separation came swiftly.

From The Hippodrome by Hayward, Rachel

Gideon observed his comrade's seeming devotion, and appearing determined to outrival him in excess of zeal, applied himself more sedulously than ever to his book.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various