The quick-witted Florentines excelled at this business, and great banking houses, like the Bardi and the Peruzzi, had branches or correspondents in all the chief cities.
MILAN was the largest city in Italy, not unlike Paris, full of merchandise and craftsmen; it lacked the palaces of other cities, but in size excelled them all, and in throng of people rivalled Venice.
They were skilful weavers of fine cloth, and excelled in the production of feather-work, their gorgeous humming-birds furnishing material for that purpose.
No nation has ever excelledthe Spanish Arabs in the beauty and costliness of their pleasure-gardens.
He excelled as a painter of cottages and ancient ruins, but rarely succeeded with foliage.
Starting as a landscape painter, he, in later years, excelled in rustic figure subjects, whilst as a painter of fruits and flowers he was without a rival.
In that day I lifted up my hand for them to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided for them, flowing with milk and honey, which excelled amongst all lands.
And Daniel excelled all the princes, and governors: because a greater spirit of God was in him.
And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
Hunt also excelled in command of the artillery; and this in spite of much misorganization of that arm at Washington.
The two first on either side of the great square face the river and are both handsome structures, but they are excelled in beauty of design by the two last.
He was naturally of a joyous temperament, and in one amusement, swimming, heexcelled and took singular delight.
Birch excelled Percy in that, as much as Percy excels Goldsmith.
After supper, I talked of the assiduity of the Scottish clergy, in visiting and privately instructing their parishioners, and observed how much in this they excelled the English clergy.
Yet he excelled in the art of duping his fellow-men.
Of middle size, well knit, wiry rather than muscular, he excelled as a horseman, in the use of the spear, and on foot would tire his hardiest followers.
But her loyalty, as it exceeded her brother's in fanaticism, excelled it also in purity.
By Allah," said I, "never did I see a barber who excelled in judicial astrology save thyself: but I think and I know that thou art most prodigal of frivolous talk.
He excelled in several manly exercises: he was a proficient in horsemanship, and danced with great elegance.
Shelley wrote everything (after his intellectual infancy) that he did write, so excellently that he must have excelled here also.
These men showed by the colour of their faces that their work kept them within four walls, yet they excelled their peasant companions in their alert and soldierly bearing.
Appendix) His nature was vain and prodigal, but he excelled in that showy magnificence and careless generosity which wins the hearts of the people.
Few of our writers have excelled De Foe in this kind of biographical narration, the great qualities of which are, to attract by the diversity of circumstances, and to instruct by the usefulness of examples.
It is considered that English binders excelled in this art of "blind" stamping, that is, without the use of gold leaf.
And although his splendid dress and jewels so overshadowed Mr. Calvert's quiet appearance, he was conscious of being excelled before the crowd of spectators by the agility and sure young strength of the American.
I am sure had His Majesty been General Washington himself you could not have excelled it.
Both were good skaters, but the young American excelled them in a certain lightness and grace, and the three friends, as they circled about, trying a dozen difficult and showy manoeuvres on the ice, attracted much attention.
Then, again, Rome cultivated and excelled in the genius of law and jurisprudence.
To both seminarians a class was assigned, and the Bishop of Poitiers says that his American friend, afterward Bishop Fitzpatrick, alwaysexcelled in his position.
He excelled in exposition of the Scriptures, which were his constant study and delight.
He had no one now to come between himself and his real military genius, in which he infinitely excelled William; and he immediately brought his skill into play.
In agriculture and gardening the English were excelled by their neighbours the Dutch and Flemings.
He was only excelled in optics by Newton himself; and in his "Sectiones Geometricæ" he nearly anticipated Newton's principle of fluxions.
Robert White was a pupil of Loggan's, and, like his master, excelled in portraits.
For the "impetuous lyric sally," like the Mariners of England and the Battle of the Baltic, Scott rightly thought that Campbell excelled all his contemporaries.
Having heard, however, that among the twelve girls in the Pear Fragrance Court there was one called Ling Kuan, who excelled in singing, he purposely issued forth by a side gate and came in search of her.
P'ing Erh had ever heard people maintain that all that Pao-yü excelled in was in knitting friendships with girls.
But before I come to mention the distribution she usually made of her time, let me say a few words upon another subject, in which she excelled all the young ladies I ever knew.
For well dost thou know how much she excelled in the graces of both mind and person, natural and acquired, all that is woman.
When it came to Miss Crabb's adventure, every humorist excelled himself in descriptive smartness and in cunning turns of ironical phrasing.
Comparing the two, it needed no phrenologist or physiognomist to tell you that where one excelled the other excelled; where one failed, the other was wanting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
