Reginald Heber and Abraham Moore--especially Reginald--excel Carey; but Pindar in English is reserved for another age.
Among the Arts,' said the Owl, 'the modern English chiefly excel in painting.
They endeavoured to excel each other in the splendour of their equipage and dress, and in the excellence and beauty of their horses, which were adorned with the most costly caparisons.
In Heraldry the eagle is accounted one of the most noble bearings, and ought to be given only to such as greatly excel in the virtues of generosity and courage, or for having done some singular service to their sovereign.
To excel in feats of strength and dexterity was an accomplishment that even a philosopher need not scorn.
Therefore from a long observation of the Stars, and an exact Knowledge of the motions and influences of every one of them, wherein they excel all others, they fortel many things that are to come to pass.
There are but few persons that can defeat a Scorpio [Symbol: Scorpio] person in argument or excel them at their business.
You are artistic, and musical, and should excel as a performer, if you ever took up the study of music seriously.
For a business or profession you would excelin acting, or in an occupation that ministers to the Joy and Pleasures of others.
He scandalized his friends Boileau and Racine; still, it is matter of doubt whether they did not excel him rather in prudence than in purity.
These bipeds of their folly tell us, While thus pretending to excel us.
For if books were written of this, as of the other, I doubt not but learned men with mean experience would far excel men of long experience without learning, and outshoot them with their own bow.
When the Duke of Wellington died, the Continent was searched for the most durable stone for his sepulchre, sufficiently grand and durable to cover his remains, but none could be found to excel that at Luxulyan.
So she consulted her father on the matter, who advised her to accept only the "Bravest of the Brave," or the one who could prove himself to excel all others in martial skill.
Such displays, as though death were something altogether terrifying, are to me astonishing and degrading to our city in the sight of strangers, for persons reputed to excel in anything, as in some respects I am held to excel the generality.
Georgia, and the same was acknowledged to excel that of any other country.
That you may behold Nature contending with Art and striving to equal if not excel many gardens in England.
They excel in the variety and exquisite perfection of this style of work, and under their skilful manipulation it becomes one of the choicest forms of decorative art.
If, however, we place the chief glory of a general in feats of arms and strategy, the Laconian will be found greatly to excel the Roman.
I myself had rather excel others in excellency of learning than in greatness of power.
The French have little humour, because they have little character; they excel all nations in wit, because of their levity and sharpness.
And the misery of this character is often increased by the desire to excel which commonly accompanies instability.
These forgers excel in turning out the white-ground vases, which, even when antique, cannot resist the action of alcohol.
This anecdote may perhaps disgust you with the Indian ladies, who certainly do not excel in female softness.
I am grown very lazy since I married; for the future, I shall make Fitzgerald write all my letters, except billet-doux, in which I think I excel him.
He is the sweetest trifler in the world, my dear Bell: but in what does he not excel all mankind!
He entered upon the clerical state with hope to excel in preaching; but complained, that, from the time of his political controversies, "he could only preach pamphlets.
And of old we gave knowledge to David and Solomon: and they said, "Praise be to God, who hath made us to excel many of his believing servants!
And He it is who hath made the Heavens and the Earth in six days: His throne had stood ere this upon the waters,3 that He might make proof which of you4 would excel in works.
Verily, we have made all that is on earth as its adornment, that we might make trial who among mankind would excel in works: But we are surely about to reduce all that is thereon to dust!
See how we have caused some of them to excel others!
In the first of these particulars, few countriesexcel the New England States.
The intellectual and moral atmosphere of society, which stimulates all to excel one another, likewise aids in equalizing such differences.
Women, who devote themselves to a science, are often animated with an earnestness and will-power in which they excel most other students.
The French, as a people, do not excel in vocal music, either in tone or in harmony, but then they are precise in time.
The afternoon was drummed away by two noisy bands, evidently rivals, and each determined to excel the other in loudness, while both combined to persecute the poor visitors who do wish for quietness, at any rate once a week.
The Tanjongs and Kanowits and Kalabits, who excel in basket-work, introduce a variety of patterns in black, red, and white.
It may be said, we think, without fear of contradiction, that this is the only craft in which the Ibans excel all the other peoples.
Thus some of the Klemantan tribes specially excel in the finer kinds of wood-carving (E.
Some of the Klemantans excel the Kayans in this work, producing very beautiful women's paddles, sometimes with designs of inlaid lead (Pl.
