outvie
- a word derived from vie.
Example Sentences
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The garden was a little paradise, in which nature and art seemed to outvie each other in offering attractions to eye, ear, and taste.
From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.
The average wool-sorter will outvie an artist in his perception of colour shades.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
In this way, all the world may be an aristocrat, and play the duke among marquises, and the reigning monarch among dukes, if he will only outvie them in tranquility.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
Not only did he love his work with all the passion of a creator, he was also concerned to outvie his professional rivals.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
There is a gladness in her eye, And in the wind her dancing tread Appears in swiftness to outvie The scurrying cloudlets overhead; In brief, her moods and graces are Appropriate to the calendar.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various
