48 collocations for outshines

Now 'mid these scenes the drearest I dream of her, the dearest, Whose eyes outshine the Southern stars, So far, and yet the nearest.

Mrs. Wilde, like most women of her temper, was passionately fond of such public triumphs, and had determined, at a camp-meeting soon to be held in the vicinity, to outshine all her rural neighbors in splendor.

Addison, in The Spectator, No. 221, tells of a preacher in a country town who outshone a more ignorant rival, by quoting every now and then a Latin sentence from one of the Fathers.

thy beauty shall outshine the sun which lights the sphere.

The Prince de Ligne, who saw her at the Court of France, mentions her in his Memoirs, in terms of eulogy, which I cannot think exaggerated; for when I knew her at Tulczin, though she was then upwards of forty, her charms retained all their lustre, and she outshone the young beauties of the court, amidst whom she appeared like Calypso surrounded by her nymphs.

Methinks we should have an Ambition, if not to advance our selves in another World, at least to preserve our Post in it, and outshine our Inferiors in Virtue here, that they may not be put above us in a State which is to Settle the Distinction for Eternity.

the Parisians, the civic authorities thought their own credit at stake in doing appropriate honor to an occasion so important as the marriage of the heir of the monarchy, and on the 30th of May they closed a succession of balls and banquets by a display of fire-works, in which the ingenuity of the most celebrated artists had been exhausted to outshine all previous displays of the sort.

Homer does not only outshine all other Poets in the Variety, but also in the Novelty of his Characters.

So, in those nations which the sun adore, Some modest Persian, or some weak-eyed Moor, No higher dares advance his dazzled sight, Than to some gilded cloud, which near the light 10 Of their ascending god adorns the east, And, gracèd with his beams, outshines the rest.

They have been men of affairs first, with large practical ability, but with a deep strain of the man of letters which in this generation has outshone the other faculties; strong-headed and hard-working students, with powerful memories and fluent gifts of expression.

In palaces such charms are rarely ours; The woodland plants outshine the garden flowers.

cannot outshine the gloom of his presence, what is to happen in the places where there is no wood-fire, on the days when real miseries, big and little, are on hand, to be made into mountains of torture by his grumbling?

The names of Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster may outshine the glories of any statesmen who shall arise in this great country for a hundred years to come.

"Outshines the sun that mighty hall, Glitters gold on heaven's hill; There shall god-like princes dwell, And rule for aye a happy world.

[Illustration: WOLSEY OUTSHINES THE KING.] Wolsey, who was made cardinal in 1515 by the Pope, held a tremendous influence over the young king, and indirectly ruled the country.

Meantime, he looked at her adoringly, insinuated compliments, performed little services, walked his horse much by her side, did his best in conversation, and in all ways tried to outshine the Lieutenant.

And now a fourth with seraph-beauty bright Descends, accosts them, and outshines the light!

They would not see thee spring from Earth like them, Outshining all their fainter loveliness, And so they left me to my lorn despair; She left me lorn, O false Proserpina!

Turn them towards me, and they will outshine the lustre of the morn, and I shall perceive nothing of the sun, even when he gains his meridian height."

It is thought probable that Clay's native oratorical ability, which he assiduously cultivated,the gift which, as Schurz says, "enabled him to make little tell for much, and to outshine men of vastly greater learning,"misled him as to the necessity for systematic and thorough study.

Who could attend to Maupertuis while Voltaire was talking?Voltaire, who as obviously outshone Maupertuis as Maupertuis outshone La Mettrie and Darget and the rest.

He is thoroughly out of all patience with thy perverseness,thou wilt never find another such a noble lord and one 'twill love thee with such love;and for a face and figurewell, thou art surely blind to masculine beauty;and should his Grace go hence, my lord will be his Grace of Ellswold, and second to none in the realm; he will become as much to the king as the Duke of Buckingham, and will far outshine Monmouth and Shaftesbury.

An effective scene of this type occurs in Monsieur Beaucaire, where the supposed hairdresser is on the point of being ejected with contumely from the pump-room at Bath, when the French Ambassador enters, drops on his knee, kisses the young man's hand, and presents him to the astounded company as the Duc d'Orléans, Comte de Valois, and I know not what besidesa personage who immeasurably outshines the noblest of his insulters.

Thy copy casts a fairer light on all, And still outshines the bright original.

Can any thing be more surprizing than to consider Cicero, who made the greatest Figure at the Bar, and in the Senate of the Roman Commonwealth, and, at the same time, outshined all the Philosophers of Antiquity in his Library and in his Retirements, as busying himself in the College of Augurs, and observing, with a religious Attention, after what manner the Chickens peck'd the several Grains of Corn which were thrown to them?

48 collocations for  outshines