The port is a harbour of refuge, of which there are not many on the north coast of Brittany, and the traffic in salmon and sardines is considerable, though not rivalling in bulk that of the greater ports in the southwest.
It was in connection with William Hone that George Cruikshank suddenly rose to supreme popularity--out rivalling his compeers, including Rowlandson, then poor and dissipated like Gillray, and near his end.
That house was famous for its financial prominence--rivalling that of his own, and Messer Giacopo's three girls were noted for good looks and clever brains.
He had a veritable genius for interpreting chemical reactions and discovering new substances, in this respect rivalling Priestley himself.
In their progress we find the Bishops and dignitaries of the Church occasionally substitute the mitre by the helmet, and the crosier for the sword, and rivalling the feudal chieftains in their military exploits.
This polity existed equally in Britain, where the Church became a rich and powerful corporation, oftenrivalling and occasionally transcending the feudal Barons in wealth, dignities, and influence.
The Figaro of Beaumarchais is a descendant of the Mascarille of Molière; but the glory of rivalling Molière was reserved for our own stage.
Some of these he himself subsequently adopted, and others have been followed up by some dramatists without rivalling Molière.
About this same time, when his popularity was at its zenith, and was rivalling that of Dr.
Hard Times Hance persuaded himself that he had reached his "Utopia," and that his past forty years of loneliness and savagery was the price he had paid for the present heaven-rivalling blessings.
To a mild temper and amiable disposition he united the great advantage of rivalling no man, and interfering with no man's career.
He had even set his heart on rivalling Bourdaloue and Bossuet.
But when the Lady Badr al-Budur considered the jewels, she waxed distraught and cried, "Meseemeth that in the treasuries of the world there be not found one jewel rivalling these jewels.
Richard Dehmel at the age of fifty-six removes after a long interval the second of the two poets who were admiringly regarded by their contemporaries as rivalling the literary partnership which once existed between Goethe and Schiller.
He appears to have written with the intention of rivallingand excelling Vasari.
He there decorated with his frescos the churches, galleries, halls, and ceilings in great number; often rivalling the celerity without attaining the merit of his master.
Mexico was indeed a city of palaces, interspersed with temples and pyramids, rivalling in splendor and luxury, as well as in extent, many of the proudest capitals of the Old World.
Here was a lady rivalling in illustrious birth and immenseness of possessions the famed west country heiress Cicely Bonville, one of whose daughters her grandfather had married as his second wife.
At the early age of sixteen years, according to his biographer, he resolved on strictly conforming himself to the precepts of Pythagoras, and, if possible, rivalling the fame of his master.
He is equally at home painting on white enamel a delicate border, or rivalling the rich hues of a gaudy butterfly in a life-like imitation of the fluttering insect.
Having enriched his palette with a wealth of colors which made him the envy of his cotemporaries, he turned his attention to reviving Oriental styles in hues rivalling those of the East.
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