For a time the Portuguese held the Indian trade as their own, and Lisbon outshone Venice as a mart for oriental spices; the seventeenth century, however, saw the Dutch grasping at this monopoly.
He was the universal landlord; the wealth and authority of his temples and establishments outshone those of the king.
This appearance of the Fuggers, whose houses and palaces outshone those of the emperors, marks the upward movement of forces that had begun two or three centuries earlier in Cahors in France and in Florence and other Italian towns.
She outshoneevery lady, even the Royal Princesses not excepted.
The Duke of Neuenburg was one of the handsomest men that have ever lived; and, on this account alone, would have outshone our sovereign, even if he had not also excelled him both in vivacity and energy of mind.
He had a mean and jealous dislike for Blaesus, whose spotless reputation far outshone his own, which was tainted with every kind of infamy.
Many terrible blows were exchanged ere Frey fell; but the Fire King's sword outshone the sun, and where was the sword of Frey?
With what ease had Audley, whenever they had stood foot to foot, put him in the second place, got the better of him, outshone him!
At the Races and the County Ball richer men outshone him.
All her guests outshone her, and she outshonethem all.
In these compositions, Mahomet held a very distinguished rank, and long before he announced himself as a prophet, his poetry, which far outshone that of his competitors, had raised him to a high degree of honour and consideration.
But one magnificence outshone another, and made itself the brightest conceivable for the moment.
There was a picture of sunset, the whole sky of which would have outshone any gilded frame that could have been put around it.
The precocious maidens of the great consular families hated Claudia because, in her white and simple dress, and her long natural fair hair, unadorned by a single flower or gem, she outshone their elaborate beauty.
He had known Sir John Pynsent at Cambridge, and had never allowed himself to be outdressed or outshone by him in any way.
I enjoyed at that time so great a renown, and I so outshone all with the glamour of youth and beauty, that I needed to fear no refusal, whoever might be the woman to whom I chanced to address myself.
There were stars of the arena among them, of various magnitudes, but Benny was the comet that outshone and outstripped them all.
Yes; but already the beauty of the bodyoutshone the majesty of the Soul.
The Greeks made better heavy armor--one cause of the victories; but for the most part the Persian crafts and manufactures outshone the Greek by far.
The fearful rays of the Sun of Consternation outshone the day, outshone the sun: from their centre, they penetrated through houses and people.
Fresh from a big city near by, he had outshone the country gallants at the party as he had outshone the cowboys that Ruth had seen since coming to the Flying W.
He saw her as he had never seen her before, a splendid creature whose beauty outshone that of any woman he had ever seen, as the sun outshone the moon.
How could they dare impugn the writings of Maimuni, whose dazzling personality outshone all his great predecessors?
And the sons of the Colchians called him by the new name of Phaëthon,[2] because he outshone all the youths.
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