But, though he had to admit himself bested by the fortunes of war, he was still undefeated in the world of commerce.
In September, 1892, he bested a bull clique and forced prices down to twelve cents.
It was the old story of David and Goliath, of the Roman youth who bested the Gaul, of Drake's improvised fleet against the Armada.
Now all the way through I had been taking notes Of his disagreeable way, And it tickles me now to be able to say He's bested for good in the end; Got him down where he's bound to stay; I were a pall to his burrying.
Kind of tickled to have him gone; Bested for once and laid away, Got him down where he's bound to stay; I were a pall to his burrying.
If with two more, he would have bested Marvin, and I must take the prize from him.
Were I bested by such as he, 'twould be no honor lost.
He bested you just like he'd best a mink or a fox.
Thick muscles had bested thin iron in a single effort.
For a time he liked to have bested me; but presently the latent possibilities that must have been lying dormant within me for a lifetime came to the fore, and I fought as I had never dreamed a human being could fight.
Ye was fairly bested until somebody ahted me wiv a welt on the skylight.
E fairly bestedthe crowd," he growled, "an' got the girl as well.
Look heah,' he said, 'Harold, your wife has bested me!
My dear,' Lady Georgina cried, 'there the rogue hasbested us.
Dolf Norbury ain't the man to be bested all along the line--and I shouldn't wonder if he didn't begin now.
I suppose Falkner gave you a full, true and particular account of how we bested the precious specimen who claimed him.
Then I was called upon to speak and, in answer to questions, answered frankly that I had stolen the ancient White Seal from the King's servant who carried it as a warrant for the King's private vengeance on one who had bested him.
Only his eyes appeared to still hold the strength that had once bested every man on the planet to win the annual games.
The man--and woman--who had bested every other contestant on the entire planet and who would remain unchallenged until the following year.
One day she mounted an immense height after a ringing lark, bested him, and had had three shots, when a wild merlin joined in.
Mr. St. Quintin once flew a snipe hard with a good game-tiercel of his, which bested it in the air, but it got off by means of continually putting in to a deep ditch.
Though not a fast hawk he has persevered and bested all his larks in the air, though he has put them in so far off that it was difficult to find them.
We played along until about four o'clock, when some of the Canton boys thought I had bested them, so I quit and went to bed.
In the play I bested him out of a few hundred dollars, and he did not like it a bit.
I lay you have seen him, an' I lay he's bested you for all your talk, same as he bested me.
There was developed in the freshman class a sprinter who almost bested Bobby Hargrew at first; but the freshmen had little, after all, to do when the big day came.
Eve had bested all competitors by a full inch and a half.
His opponent, Wharton, the wretched little lawyer who had bested him once before, bested him now, and the weight of the last straw fell crushingly.
Often have you bested me in the secret councils of Issus, but now in the field of war where men are truly gauged your scabby heart hath revealed its sores to all the world.
None of this world could have bested eight of the First Born single-handed.
You have bested me fairly, but for it all I like you not.
I could not wonder that he had not chosen to show himself upon the deck; if it were true that he had bested all contestants at feats of strength, then surely his defeat must have rankled in him.
Why, Sir Swashbuckler, the prowess of Don de Baçan is a byword in the navy of King Philip, and no man in all Spain has bested him in any bout of strength.
When I made my appearance, you put your heads together, and you bested me.
Bested I was; but to-day I'm the best man and he've got to sing second.
Of course afterwards I shall come back again; but not till I've bested you, or you've bested me.
In every encounter the young man had bested him, and these petty defeats had crystallized his antipathy to Burrell into a hatred so strong that he had begun to lie awake nights planning a systematic quarrel.
It woke a savage joy in me to think I had bested him, after all.
I've hunted most things, and men aren't the cleverest beasts and you're not the cleverest man I've bested in my time.
Granted he bested you in the past an' your natural hope an' prayer was to be upsides wi' un some day.
They met on the bridge an' Grimbal bested him, Will bein' weary an' empty-bellied.
I allow you've bested me, God knaws how; but you've got me down.
