His great rival in satire was Horace, who laughed at follies; but Juvenal, more austere, exaggerated and denounced them.

It was true that she had held her position against the queen before, but all her hatred could not blind her to the fact that her rival was a very different woman to poor meek little Maria Theresa.

His rival was Aeschines, who was vastly inferior to Demosthenes, although bold, vigorous, and brilliant.

His rival was Thomas Jefferson, the founder and chief of the Republican party.

His rival was a lazy student and a turbulent scholar, with whom I had difficulties from insubordination from the beginning.

Some of them grow to a very large size, being indeed among the largest poisonous snakes in the worldtheir only rivals in this respect being the diamond rattlesnake of Florida, one of the African mambas, and the Indian hamadryad, or snake-eating cobra.

France has got a new empire, we are told; she has won a great victory; she is growing and expanding and is richer by something which her rivals are the poorer for not having.

Venice and his lady were included in his sworn allegiance, and to seek to make them rivals would be a danger for the Republic.

This rival is the New Valse, of which we shall speak in its place; but we must now describe the step of the Valse à Deux Temps.

Thiers at this time was the recognized leader of the Left and Left Centre in the Deputies, while his rival, Guizot, was the leader of the Conservatives.

Their only potential rivals were the lumbering, isolationist United States of North America and the newly awakened Island Kingdom of Japan.

Another rival of Beethoven's in public esteem was Daniel Steibelt, forgotten as a virtuoso, but not to be forgotten for his splendid vices which range from kleptomania up, or down as you wish.

The next fortunate event of his life was his marriage with Pompeia, a cousin of Pompey, who was then the foremost man in Rome, having distinguished himself in Spain and in putting down the slave insurrection under Spartacus; but Pompey's great career in the East had not yet commenced, so that the future rivals at that time were friends.

For a long time its chief rival was Nephròdium (kidney-like), 1803.

If his successful rival had been indeed a stranger to him, what reason could there be for so much mystery in the circumstances of the marriage?

A much more formidable rival was Artemesia Christich, a woman as designing as she was lovely, who was quick to envelop the weak King in the toils of her witchery.

But he found that the rival whom he had set up was by no means a pliant tool in his hands, and he then turned against Matilda.

The greatest rivals were the Kureisch and the Hawazin, a tribe dwelling between Mecca and Taif.

Thus the two rivals became deadly enemies.

That rival was Rome.

He learned that his rival was an excellent and worthy man.

In later chapters instances will be given of such wooers killing coveted girls with their own spears as soon as they find that the rival is the winner.

THE PHEASANT-HEN The Pheasant-hen I am, who have assumed the golden plumage of the arrogant male! CHANTECLER Remaining in spite of all a female, whose eternal rival is the Idea!

Jackson's main rivals in the election which followed were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, both of whom had rendered great civil services, and were better fitted for the post.

His only rivals were Dumas fils and M. Sardou (1820-1889).