Viterbo in the same year enjoyed a variety of splendid exhibitions, Cardinal vying with Cardinal in magnificence, upon the festival of Corpus Domini.
Belzebub and Belial command the two horns of this formidable array, "Both standing there in shining panoply, Vying in splendors grand.
Thus both stood there in shining panoply, 80 Vying in splendors grand.
All those, who stood below, were startled; and in a body they pressed forward, vying with each other as to who should pick up the gem.
Others again suggested: "Vying with the Hsiang Lu;" and others recommended "the small Chung Nan.
Castilians had clamored; and Urraca, again a free woman, was now the centre of her own little court, where she soon gathered about her a small company of nobles who were vying with each other to obtain her royal favor.
Arriving at Leghorn, they took ship for Marseilles, and then began a triumphal march across the country, cities vying with each other in doing her honor.
But in the old man's room a candle was alight, and the flickering flame, vying with the livid, dying day, made the heavy darkness of the room more oppressive.
The boy began to cry and Melchior to shout, vying with each other until they heard Louisa hurriedly coming up the stairs.
You are aware, I suppose, reader, that the Mountain House is an establishment vying in its style of accommodations with the best of hotels.
The mob, according to their usual practice, rush from all quarters vying with each other, and cheer him, and wish him joy.
Having got the better of their fears, vying with each other, they swim towards him, and the insolent mob leap upon the Log.
And she retained it in all its mysterious power through the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth; men vying for her love when she was ninety.
What must an elector think when he sees three or four gentlemen, none of them previously observed to be lavish of their money on projects of disinterested beneficence, vying with one another in the sums they expend to be enabled to write M.
The essential is, that there should not be any one state so much more powerful than the rest as to be capable of vying in strength with many of them combined.
His great Cardinal, Wolsey, was not less active in building, but Henry was the royal patron, vying with other monarchs in obtaining the services of distinguished artists to adorn his surroundings.
We were always teasing Sally about her vying with Israel, as she certainly did, while they sung out of the same book, and thought a deal more of each other than they did of the music.
The truth was, that 'vying with Israel' was a byword with us.
Early fruits began to ripen, and progressive housewives were vying with each other in the production of early fruits and vegetables, and especially in the quantity of eggs gathered.
Vying with each other in appearance, their receiving rooms are splendidly furnished, but they do not live in them.
Thus shall I return, an eat-bush no longer nor despised, but a David who has slain his Goliath, with the multitude applauding, and the greatest of the Tuamasanga vying to give me the title of their son.
I gripped the rope tightly, sprang to the deck, and faced her as she came out of the group, her lips parted, and the red of her cheeks vying with the hood she wore.
The two universities, Oxford and Cambridge, are vying with each other to get possession of me; at Cambridge I taught for many months Greek and sacred literature, and that for nothing as I am determined always to do.
If, in the vigour of early youth, he has not followed the plough at dawn, and enjoyed mowing grass with a large sweep of the scythe next to hardy haymakers vying in energy with lively young girls who fill the air with their songs?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
