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Quakers, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists seemed to vie with each other in this pious testimony.
Many of these vie with each other in the extent and delicacy of decorative carvings outside.
It seemed impossible to accomplish anything in clay to vie with the precious metals and stones.
Cordova numbered several thousand rich families, well able to vie with the Arabs in display.
In beauty, variety of scenery, and fertility, it may vie with the most celebrated countries.
Their huge advertisements in newspapers and magazines vie with their shop windows in attracting trade.
Men and women seemed to vie with one another at making themselves look ridiculous and outrageous too.
The assembly was extremely brilliant; the ladies seemed to vie with each other in magnificent decorations.
Our old cities are being rebuilt in towering marble; great new cities rise to vie with them.
The pile-driving machine-men gave me a good-natured challenge to vie with them in driving down a pile.
The pile-driving machine-men gave me a good-natured challenge to vie with them in driving down a pile.
You and I will vie with each other, to prevent our dear countess ever knowing a melancholy hour.
Commerce and the city's lighting boards vie with one another in the splendor of their offerings.
All the great cities then vie with each other in presenting the Government with large sums.
She and the husband vie with each other for solitary possession of their little nasty house.
In act third, scene third, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern vie with each other in flattering the king.
Great publicity attends each award, and the publishers vie with each other in establishing such prizes.
There were many ladies in company who seemed to vie with their male companions in luxury of dress.
As Constance did know, she hastened to greet her, and to vie with Lillie in congratulating her.
We see how nations already begin to vie with each other for the honor of sheltering Erasmus.
The wise man, he said, living on bread and water, could vie with Zeus himself in happiness.
They seemed to vie with each other in supporting the honor of their country, and fully succeeded.
Less eligibility is forgotten, as boards vie with each other to produce more costly and up-to-date institutions.
The orchestra and dancers seemed to vie with each other as to who should make the greater noise.
This, however, was of rare occurrence, as guests began to vie with each other in seeing him home.
In either of these situations his solid and volatile qualities appear to vie with each other for the mastery.
The Great Falls of the Yellowstone, though not so high, vie with the Yosemite in striking beauty.
Almost every valley can boast of its glacier, some of which vie with the mountains in height.
The other feminine glories of the tournament vie with each other in keeping the conversational ball rolling.
They gathered; as if to vie with each other, from all nations, Russians, Italians, French, Germans, etc.
The kings, ministers, and peoples of the kingdoms vie with one another in making offerings at them.
They seemed to vie with one another in their efforts to see which could master them most quickly.
These good-natured compassionate creatures seemed to vie with each other who should take the most care of us.
And they seemed to vie with one another in running swiftly about with them all over the place.
And such discussion is pertinent, because we have Schiller's own word that he wished to vie with Sophocles.
It is here that plant and flower families vie with each other in their parade of color and fashion.
All classes seemed to vie with each other in the efforts they made to bring order out of chaos.
The woods, the waters, and the plains vie with one another in their contributions to the table.
The kings, ministers, and peoples of the kingdoms around vie with one another in making offerings at them.
They march in by classes ahead of the seniors, and vie with each other in giving their yells.
They began to vie with each other in making contributions of work and material for the new building.
I hope that this republic will vie with any monarchy in gratitude to those who have served it.
There are lofty and handsome shops, with most costly contents, which can vie with London or Paris.
Since they were content to copy, it were to be wished that they had been able to vie with him.
In respect of its originality, it may vie with any work of modern times, not excepting 'Don Quixote.'
Did not vie with each other, whose stone should sink the deepest in the forehead of this Goliath.
Stewart said, "My store shall vie with your museum, and people will throng it as they do an exposition."
As he got into the "merits of the thing," the music was obliged to vie with him in activity.
The most eminent men vie with each other in instructing and forming the education of the population at large.
Rich men can always be found to vie with one another in lavish expenditure over a ball or a wedding.
The nobles and princes of the proudest courts vie with each other for the honor of her hand.
For concentrated dramatic quality and sheer intensity of passion few plays ever written can vie with the Medea.
"It is worse than folly, and so out of taste for an actor to attempt to vie with a banker."
And what odor can vie for hungry folk with that of roasting meat in the clear hush of twilight?
Views in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, vie with noble monuments, visible on every side, of commercial civilization and prosperity.
Both actors and spectators appear to vie with each in their rapid march down the slippery path of sin.
Of all fruits, no other can pretend to vie with the apple as the fruit of the common people.
They interrupt, but this Ibsen is deep and delightful, and we vie with one another in an excess of entertainment.
In time both might become united under him into one great power that might vie successfully with any in Italy.
Rich folk soon become popular; the neighbors vie with one another in becoming intimate with people who own a carriage.
"In wealth, wisdom and strict economy," he said, "none of the other living languages can vie with it."
I see everybody happy around me, and vie with each other in proofs of zeal and affection for my person.
You would do yourself great wrong, my child, if you tried to vie with the rose in its own color.
He could never hope, was his everlasting complaint, to vie with other men in the conquest of her heart.
A worse drawback was that so many other interests began to vie in his mind with his medical studies.
Within this favored domain the products of nature and of human industry vie with each other in extent and variety.
The police and the legislative power would vie with each other in their efforts to put a stop to them.
When to such work embroidery was added, it was not unnatural that it should vie with the gold setting.
Those were comparatively pleasant days, and the men learned to vie with the brute in enduring exposures and hardships.
Of all the various products cultivated, but few vie with the tobacco plant in beauty of form and general appearance.
The public buildings are numerous; and many of them will vie with any of the kind in our sister cities.
When a particular flight project came up, two or three centers, each with hundreds of employees, might vie for it.
We vie with each other on the road to ruin, for in literature all the old paths to fame are shut up.
Every region, every corner of the globe seems to vie in hastening to forward hither the tribute of its productions.
The shops are good, the accommodation plentiful, and in amusements the town can almost vie with Blackpool and Brighton.
The poets vie with one another in their efforts to give to even the humblest flowers their emotional and mystic setting.
What city in the world can vie with San Francisco either in the beauty or the natural advantages of her situation?
The mighty monuments seem to look with disdain on every other work of human art and to vie with nature herself.
Many of these houses are hidden away among the trees, some of which, for size, vie with those of the forest.
The new universities vie with the older seats of learning in the colors which they choose for gowns and hoods.
Thus do the two sexes vie with each other in the art of Decoration; and as usual the stronger carries it.
Students vie with one another to bring to class the most interesting contribution from history, biography, literature, current events, etc.
The whole foreign community seemed to vie with each other in tokens of kindness and good will towards us on that occasion.
They were of the hammer-headed kind, and two large ones seemed to vie with each other which should come nearest our vessel.
I saw the peril, but I could not think that such a race could vie with the Children of the Sun.
Your servants stay with you until they die on your hands; and your friends vie with each other in rendering service to you.
The places I saw now, I had already seen before, nor could they vie with those I had so lately visited.
I have abundance of everything; the peasants vie with each other in bringing me fruit, fish, ducks, and all sorts of game.
Trees, rivers, plains, even the dwellings of the people are on a scale with which nothing in the Old World can vie.
Twice had they stopped to drink at cool, clear springs, in which the water seemed to vie with the air in transparency.
She had not sufficient fortune to vie with women who every year spent hundreds on their dress and on their dinner.
Six or seven other girls also sold flowers there, but not one of them could vie with Jill for picturesque arrangement.
Aware of its extent, they calmly and resolutely opposed it; and each seemed to vie with the others in energy and firmness.
Oh, I do not flatter myself that my questions can vie in interest with those addressed to you by your imaginary friend.
Yet her beauty was renowned through Europe, and the illustrated papers seemed to vie with each other in publishing her new portraits.
They never walk and vie with one another to make the most noise and bring their feet down heaviest after taking orders.
The upper branches vie with one another for light, grow unusually fast, and the trees increase in height with special rapidity.
The civilians, too, during the period of a popular war, vie with each other in their treatment and general admiration of the soldier.
From the point of romance, the world may lose; the vacuum pump cannot vie with the pretty milkmaid of the songs.
The rival colors being now set side by side, Nature and luxury may enter the lists, to vie for the mastery.