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Recording sales were rivaling such alltime British favorites as Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn.

From Time Magazine Archive

His and Polly's Rhode Island Reds were rivaling my Leghorns in productiveness, and all of Riverfield seemed to have gone chicken mad.

From The Golden Bird by Chase, Edward L.

And then came the blood-curdling sounds––whimpers and groans that were rivaling the whistling of the wind.

From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

Two years afterward, frigates such as the Labrador, Orenoque, Albatros, etc., of 450 H.P., were rivaling English vessels on the ocean.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

It appears alternately red and green, as though the colors were rivaling each other for complete mastery.

From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Luckiesh, Matthew