Jemmy was far outdone by the serious and believing ways of the Major" in the imaginative plays which were the most real life of Jemmy.
It was a gay assemblage, for General Lake (who had arrived recently) and all his staff were present in glittering English uniforms, which were not to be outdone in splendour by the officers of Irish militia.
The Right Honourable Claudius Beresford, not to be outdone in zeal, set up a riding-school on Marlborough Green, which later on assumed infamous notoriety as a torture-chamber.
He had shown he was the fittest man to rule; chance of birth and dice-throw had been outdone here.
But, in this instance, he has outdone his original in ruggedness, owing to his excess of conscience as a translator" (p.
And Hercules, so grandly represented by Browning himself as the unselfish toiler for others, feels at one moment that he has been outdone in generosity by Admetus.
Lincoln returned the bow with cordiality, evidently, like Washington, determined not to be outdone in politeness by a negro.
Being remonstrated with for bowing to a colored person, he replied that he did not wish to be outdone in politeness by a negro.
Cormac, his successor, was not to be outdone in generosity, so we find that in A.
His rival, Dermod McMurrough, who was not outdone in villany by any other Irishman of the time, plundered and burned Clonard in A.
We are only too glad of his help, and not to be outdone in politeness we simultaneously raise our hats to him.
The story of Sir Stamford Raffles is outdone by the story of the Rajah of Sarawak, which shows that even in our own times the blood of Drake and Cook runs in the veins of Englishmen.
But the Queen of Heaven did not allow herself to be outdone in generosity.
Sister Bourgeois and her daughters had contributed largely the first time, and their descendants would not be outdone in generosity on this occasion.
XIV Falkenberg was right; the people at the next farm would not be outdone by their neighbours; their piano must be seen to as well.
Moreover, I found myself outdone in everything by the young lumbermen who lodged there.
This evening, too, he was all high-and-mightiness, not to be outdoneby anybody.
She wasn't going to let his sulks and silence diminish hers in the slightest degree, for in the end it seemed clear to her that he was holding his tongue out of sheer ill-temper, and she wasn't going to be outdone by him in that respect.
Dat’s so,” called out one or two others, not to be outdone by Tom, and the tide set in for the Doctor.
Gentlemen, I may submit to be outdone by Mr. Leigh in eloquence, but not in generosity; if he leaves these parts for three years, I do so also.
I have made my heroine fearful of death, which neither Cassandra nor Cleopatra would have been; and they themselves, I doubt it not, would have outdone romance in that particular.
I never thought myself very fit for an employment, where many of my predecessors have excelled me in all kinds; and some of my contemporaries, even in my own partial judgement have outdone me in Comedy.
But Riga on the Baltic, Odessa on the Black Sea, and Warsaw on the Vistula were outdone by some cities in the interior.
Yet journalists and poets were outdone by scholars and novelists in the battle for reform.
That had outdone the low revenge you bring, Much fitter for a woman than a king.
His effrontery was only outdone by his cool contempt for the consolations of religion.
This cold-blooded indifference after the event was only outdone by the premeditation of this horrible murder.
Job was outdone by Rodomont that day, In that the king subdued his haughty pride, And the fell fight which he had ever used To seek with every instance, he refused.
Rheims has outdone even Louvain, and the ruin of the Cathedral of Rheims is an even greater loss than the destruction of the old Belgian Catholic University.
In the full light of the twentieth century the German terror has outdone the deeds and wiped out the memory of the Spanish terror.
The Misses Fairland determined not to be outdone by any, and, the more effectually to conceal their own disappointment, were among the first to call.
Clive must needs not be outdone in hospitality; and invited us and others to a fine feast at the Star and Garter at Richmond, where Mrs. Pendennis was placed at his right hand.
Your beef will on Thursday be salter than brine; I hope you have swill'd with new milk from the kine, As much as the Liffee's outdone by the Rhine; And Dan shall be with us with nose aquiline.
The game was to take place on the Rally Hall grounds, and Big Sluper, the janitor, with his assistants, had outdone themselves in getting the gridiron into fine condition.
We shall not be outdone in the honorable discharge of obligations.
Swift glanced enviously at his autumnal colleague, who had already outdone him in enterprise.
This last was uttered with the contemptuousness one always feels toward a mighty government that allows itself to be outdone by corporations or individuals.
