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For what can vie with ruby wine?
The private hostesses seemed to vie with the restaurateurs.
These charlatans vie with the doctors in their ignorance.
You shall vie with each other in hurling the spear.
They vie with the fireflies in making the night attractive.
Erebus wished to vie with this man in cynicism and barbarity.
Under influence of insidious drinks, they vie in recitals of villainous craft.
Martin-cum-Gregory the Perpendicular remains cannot vie with the Decorated specimens.
The modern bards vie with one another in blackening its character.
Yellow, white, and brown species vie with each other in activity.
All the emigrants seemed to vie with each other in being social.
The Chief said these old junipers vie with the Sequoias in age.
The trout vie with the omelet; the mutton outdoes the trout.
The writer finely adds, Belle vie, et fin plus belle encore.
The colors in the sky seemed to vie with the cactus blossoms.
They vie with each other in printing stomach-turning gush about these leaders.
They vie with each other in girding at the new State magazines.
Contemporary observers vie in praising his wit, understanding, and liberality of mind.
Each was trying to vie with the other to produce a sensational description.
Officers and men seemed to vie with each other in the devilish work.
The variety and the magnificence of his labors vie with their extent.
At any rate we cannot vie with him in our researches in English literature.'
The whip cannot outdo the axe, neither can you vie with the Tsar.
Each will vie with the other for the laurels in case of a fight.
Too late, he repented of his rashness in aspiring to vie with brave men.
Its luxury is a tasteless attempt to vie with the splendor of aristocratic banquets.
Needless to say that American "helps" vie with their mistresses in display of toilette.
The officers and men seemed to vie with each other in the devilish work.
Tycoons and politicians, industrialists and bureaucrats all vie for the attention of Mammon.
It was a famous discovery to make glass that should vie with crystal in clearness.
The two Fusilier Regiments seemed to vie with each other in performing deeds of valor.
In the morning, every teamster would vie with his fellows to hitch up fastest.
Young and clever horsemen attend these trials, and vie with one another in courage.
Libel cases vie with police reports in unveiling the tragedy and comedy of life.
The frenzied crowd vie with each other, each trying to light his taper first.
No chief could vie with him in warlike renown, or in power over his people.
Some day, where the rivers part, her laurels will vie with those of Lewis.
Palms line the spacious boulevards; magnificent state structures vie for interest with ancient temples.
In importance as in bulk no literature of these four centuries could dare to vie with French.
No gift can vie with the Giver, no creature usurp the functions of the Creator.
He was a tradesman, and his ruling motive in life was to vie with the nobles.
It was their pride to vie with each other in daring, as in extravagance and dissipation.
The richer people make a great display of dress, and vie with each other in finery.
I might vie with Pythagoras for sobriety, and even with the great Scipio for continence.
Contemporary observers vie with one another in praising his wit, understanding, and liberality of mind.
The youngest seem to inherit the taint, and vie with the oldest in displaying it.
Her dark eyes, blackened into almond-shaped slits, vie with her decorated hair in foreign effect.
Brotherhood would vie with brotherhood in splendor, and one prodigy of luxury would succeed another.
They vie with one another in rummaging among old customs, to find the best cure.
At present both papers vie with each other in disseminating anarchism among the farming population.
Ravens vie with our brave Arctic explorers in the wide circuit they make in their wanderings.
If this is so, he had a citadel that might vie with that of his chief.
They began to writhe about his limbs, but drew no sound to vie with their crackling.
In the construction of temporary homes, colonists would vie with each other in the ingenuity displayed.
Perhaps, by new improvements, we may vie with the East India goods in fineness and beauty.
His promptitude made the wholesalers vie with each other as to who should sell him most.
They vie with each other in doing honor to the guiltless victims of their "pernicious rage."
The literary, scientific and religious worlds vie with one another in trying to gratify the public.
Once gone, we vie with each other in doing our worst; flashes of laughter rumble and crackle.
Surpassing the famous Alpine lakes in majesty, these of Norway can also vie with them in charm.
The generosity of this general and the devotion of his soldiery seemed to vie with each other.
What can vie with that alabaster skin but marble temples, dedicated to the Queen of Love?
When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander.
There are other birds of small size which vie with the peacock in the details of ornamentation.
The wealthy families vie with each other in the grand feasts which they give to all comers.
Few spots between the tropics can vie with this lowland in richness and vigor of vegetation.
The young men were apt to vie with one another at the husking pile of an attractive girl.
Both in ornamentation and character they vie with the best erections put up by the Government.
They read their works, talk about them, criticize them, and vie with one another in improvising verses.
There is no nicety of learning sought by the mind, which the eyes do not vie in acquiring.
It may truthfully be said that "Nature wants stuff to vie strange forms with fancy, to make another."
Already, by its liberality and attention to art, it begins to vie with some of our oldest cities.
Publishers redefine their strategies as new forms of expression and communication vie for public attention and dollars.
Royalty can scarcely be conceived to vie with the style and consummate splendor of this magnificent chamber.
Only opera singers and actors can vie with writers in the amount of undeserved publicity which they receive.
All parties seemed to vie with each other in devising and presenting the most fitting testimonials of regard.
Wild roses, honeysuckle, and meadow-sweet seem to vie with each other in filling the warm air with perfume.
This place was famous for a royal library, formed, with emulation, to vie with that of Alexandria in Egypt.
It is remarkable that the theater never tried to vie with the masque in scenery or dresses or music.
How they vie with one another in praise of solitude, of leisure, of liberal freedom from care and of inactivity!
Lady Mary felt that she could vie in extravagance with the most ambitious in her husband's ambitious land.
Those who perform in public indulge in every obscenity, and vie with each other in their indecent exhibitions.
The inhabitants are rich and prosperous, and vie with one another in the practice of benevolence and righteousness.
The flower stores of our large cities have in mid-winter floral exhibitions that vie with those of the summer.
A dancing master can vie with him in that line, whether the fine clothes are paid for or not.
In great and opulent cities, where men vie with each other in equipage, dress, and the reputation of fortune?
This is one of the clubs, and there are sure to be others that vie with them in startling attire.
The hoary cities of the Old World can only vie with her in her bold and lusty youth.
Each one will vie with the other in overwhelming him with the gifts best calculated to shatter his courage.
When a mean wretch cannot vie with any man in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander him.
The sweet scents of the jasmine flowers, the cinnamon and clove vie with the fragrance of the orange!
She, pretty and coquettish, has many admirers, who vie with each other for the honor of her hand.
If the bloom can be cut clean, a good cluster will vie with many orchids for delicacy and effect.
They then hastily raise their standards, and having set out for Rome, vie in exultation with all they met.
Antony tried to vie with her in the splendor of his entertainments, but laughingly confessed she far outdid him.
The rest of the world seemed to vie with each other, in the debasement and oppression of these unfortunate people.
It is the custom for young men to vie with each other, particularly in the splendor of their convivial entertainments.
In about two weeks the flannel will be concealed in a beautiful verdure, which will vie with any table ornament.
The long fair mustache that droops either side of his mouth, seems to vie with the bushy eyebrows half defiantly.
From all sides, in eagerness to see, the people of Troy run streaming in, and vie in jeers at their prisoner.