4495 examples of rivaled in sentences

The Brotherhood League came into existence and rivaled the National League.

She was propped up upon pillows whose texture her flesh rivaled in whiteness.

Monasteries rivaled one another in their collection of books and in drawing up of chronicles.

Formidable riots had broken out in many quarters, especially in the great southern cities, in some of which the mob had rivaled the worst excesses of its Parisian brethren; massacring the magistrates, tearing their bodies into pieces, and terrifying the peaceable inhabitants by processions, in which the mangled remains of their victims formed the most conspicuous feature.

It was not absolutely a new party, since the foundations of it had been laid, during the last two months of the old Assembly, by Pétion and a low-born pamphleteer named Brissot, who, as editor of a newspaper to which he gave the name of Le Patriote Français, rivaled the most blood-thirsty of the Jacobins in exciting the worst passions of the populace.

It was a sea of light, surmounted at the end of the church by the gilded choir, where the high altar rose in glory, which rivaled the rising sun.

Other great types of literature, like the epic, the romance, and the drama, were first produced by other nations; but the idea of the modern novel seems to have been worked out largely on English soil; and in the number and the fine quality of her novelists, England has hardly been rivaled by any other nation.

Other stories followed rapidly, and Defoe earned money enough to retire to Newington and live in comfort; but not idly, for his activity in producing fiction is rivaled only by that of Walter Scott.

An instant later the whole scene was lit up by a brilliant flasha flash that rivaled the sun in brightness, and made Blake and Joe stare like owls thrust suddenly into the glare of day.

The only one of Mrs. Haywood's scandal novels that rivaled the fame of her "Memoirs of a Certain Island" was the notorious "Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Carimania" (1727), a feigned history on a more coherent plan than the allegorical hodge-podge of the former compilation.

Goa was then the most important city in the East, for its wealth and commerce rivaled that of Genoa or Venice.

Her face rivaled in color Polly's robe.

she cried, and her face rivaled in color the Santa Claus reds, as she met the laughing eyes of her host.

As the young couple were not to keep house for a time, a most elegant suite of rooms had been selected in a fashionable hotel; and determining that Theo should not, in point of dress, be rivaled by any of her fellow-boarders, Madam Conway spared neither time nor money in making the outfit perfect.

The great mass of the people there were at that time but a few degrees advanced above savages, and they carried on their war with a brutal cruelty and bloodshed which could now only be rivaled in the center of Africa.

Perhaps it would be as well to follow Webster here, in writing rivaled with one l: and the analogy of the simple verb say, in forming this compound irregularly, gainsaid.

The tower was built in several successive stories, each being ornamented with balustrades, galleries, and columns, so that the splendor of the architecture by day rivaled the brilliancy of the radiation which beamed from the summit by night.

SEE Willard, Theodore A. WILLARD, THEODORE A. The lost empires of the Itzaes and Mayas; an American civilization, contemporary with Christ, which rivaled the culture of Egypt.

It was rather trying to me at first to have my glowing periods punctuated with a rhythmic wail from all sides of the hall; but as soon as I saw that it did not distract my hearers, I simply raised my voice, and, with a little added vehemence, fairly rivaled the babies.

Rural slums are rivaled by city slums.

I shall proclaim a fiesta, Señorsuch a fiesta as even Monterey never rivaled in the good old days when we were subject to his Majesty, the King.

Their hospitality rivaled that of the old Southern planters, and their charity was equal to that of other Christians.

The ordinary passions of mankind are rivaled in intensity by the mystic passion of their souls for the Heavenly Wisdom.

Rarely has literature of so high an order had such instant success; for the popularity of the Spectator has been rivaled in English literature only by that of the Waverley novels or of the novels of Dickens.

The figure of the Admiral is strong, well carried, firm, and his bearing that of gravity and determination, but no pose for the sake of show, no pomp and circumstance, just the Academy training showing in his attitudethe abiding, unconscious grace that is imparted in the schools of Annapolis and West Pointnow rivaled by other schools in "setting up."

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