Not only is the competition itself an ungracious one, but to make Lincoln a competitor is foolish and useless.
McClure says: "I saw Lincoln many times during the campaign of 1864, when McClellan was hiscompetitor for the presidency.
The latter candidate had for his competitor the celebrated jurisconsult Sulpicius Rufus; who, being assisted by Cato, charged Muraena with having prevailed by bribery and corruption.
The doctrine that the interest of the South is identified with the foreign competitor of the Northern manufacturer, he denounced as in conflict with the whole history of our Revolutionary War, and a satire on our institutions.
A competitor failing to come up at the call of time loses the match.
In 1705 she followed Betterton to the Haymarket, where she found a serious competitor in Mrs Oldfield, then first coming into public favour.
A competitor is allowed one assistant (second) only, and no advice or coaching during the progress of a round is permitted.
When a competitor draws a bye he must box for a specified time with an opponent chosen by the judges.
As yet the Cuban pineapple is a weak competitor of the Bahama fruit.
Another competitor now arose to take the crown from Thomassin, and in the person of one Carlo Bertinazzi, commonly called Carlin.
Another competitor that took up the running to the abolition of Clown and his companions, was the music-hall, which began introducing Pantomimes and ballets.
A more memorable person is Andrea Luigi di Assisi, a competitor of Raffaello, although of more mature years, who, from his happy genius was named L'Ingegno.
Of that artist he was at the same time the competitor and the friend, less powerful in genius, but more correct in his principles.
I knew that Captain Halliard had only to whisper the fact that Tom had been suspected, and had lost his situation in consequence of this suspicion, to throw my chief competitor out of the field.
He had been my competitor in the race for the situation in the bank, and probably would have obtained it if my uncle had not whispered the old slander in the ears of Mr. Bristlebach, the president.
If you had only spoken sooner, you might have seen Pollet, a competitor of Doguereau and of the publisher in the Wooden Galleries.
It is time that we took her business under our own control, by giving her enough work to live upon; we might find a real competitor in David's successor; it is in our interest to keep an eye upon that workshop.
If one of these shall have bestowed its name on competitor A, it will be the signal and the sufficient reason for the other to bestow its name on competitor B or C.
The other, at the end of a long, anxious, and successful struggle, beheld his only possible competitor resuscitated from the grave.
The peaceful operation of disorderly resorts is disturbed from time to time by raids, as in the instance above noted, in which one madame "got a collar," while her competitor on the floor above remained unmolested.
It is a safe rule, laid down by a very successful business man, that one should "Never speak of anything that he is not desirous of his principal competitor hearing--for hear it he will if one speaks of it.
So acceptable was his two years' administration of the chief executive office of the State, that no competitor entered the lists against him or contended with him for the nomination.
The canvass was an active and exciting one; but General Hayes was re-elected over a competitor of so high standing as Theodore Cook, by a majority of two thousand five hundred and fifty-six.
Mr. Lye’s first signal success was a “grey,” which at that time no other competitor had attempted.
A cheaper competitor to crinoline was brought out about 1870, when imitations in cotton fibre braids were put on the market, but these missed entirely the delicate open work of the real article.
Tachos was now full of supplications to Agesilaus to sustain him against his competitor for the Egyptian throne; while Nektanebis, also on his side, began to bid high for the favor of the Spartans.
Indeed we find another person named Argæus, mentioned as competitorfor the Macedonian sceptre, and possessing it for two years.
A competitor for the throne presently arose in the Mendesian division of Egypt.
In mentioning the name of Brunel, we are reminded of him as the principal rival and competitor of Robert Stephenson.
As far as the International Air Board was concerned the "Golden Hind" was a recognised and duly authorised competitor for the Chauvasse Prize.
Now he had enough evidence to form the conclusion that they both had a motive in common--to wreck the attempt of the British competitor to win the Chauvasse Prize.
Loading that crowd of Huns on to us is like a man in a mile race chucking his gear to another competitor and telling him to hang on.
Not a cheer rang out to speed the departing competitor for the stupendous contest.
His competitor was a Hindoo Brahmin whose name has by a terrible and melancholy event, been inseparably associated with that of Warren Hastings, the Maharajah Nuncomar.
Mirzapha Jung, a grandson of Nizam al Mulk, appeared as the competitor of Nazir Jung.
Robert Bruce: the grandson of Robert Bruce, the competitor with John Baliol for the Scottish throne.
As they thronged out from under the arch, many a pennon and shield was to be seen, graced with fresh devices, expressive of the bearer's devoted resolution to become a competitor for a prize so fair.
Since the appointee to the vacancy must be the successful competitor in an examination, the chief who removed an officer could not replace him with a personal friend or party worker.
William McKinley would have been a formidable competitorfor the presidential nomination in 1896 even without the assistance of his rugged friend.
The true friend of inventive progress is generally the rising competitor in a busy hive of industry where the difficulties of securing a profitable footing are very considerable.
The explosive type of engine was next called into requisition to do battle against the living competitor of the engineer's handiwork.
My competitor had for many years as a Boston correspondent the firm of W.
In January a broker in the trade, not a competitor for the reason that he was a specialist in a line that I did not cover, gave me a large order, for future delivery.
The leading firm with which my relations had been most intimate had taken into its employ as a confidential man my most active competitor and I knew his influence would work against me to the utmost.
This I had expected, but I did not count upon my competitor waiving commissions whenever we came into a contest for business of any importance.
With apparently, at least, the greatest composure, however, the modern Swiss competitor viewed this event before its very door.
