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The district includes a mass of valleys which vie with each other in singularity of character and dissimilarity of climate.
In the annals of literature there is no example recorded of precocious talent which can vie with that of Thomas Chatterton.
The publicans on the road are sensible of this, and therefore they vie with each other in giving satisfaction to travelers.
No other nation can hope to vie with the French in the talent of communicating information with ease, vivacity and consciousness.
On the other hand, during those weeks of cloudless summer, natural objects vie with each other in giving one amateur representations.
Crowned heads and statesmen, parliaments and corporate bodies, literary institutions and the people, all vie in pronouncing the eulogy.
Various countries take a pride in possessing the last remains of venerated persons, and vie with each other for this privilege.
Books and newspapers vie with one another in describing the wonderful growth, and the still undeveloped riches, of the interior.
Both expressed great vexation at being away when I had called before, and seemed to vie with each other in being friendly.
"Demos" does not aspire to vie with "Alton Locke," but it tells a story more practical, and of more brightness and variety.'
The best critics agree that the originality and richness of his allegorical personages vie with the splendor of ancient mythology.
Southey certainly has no pretensions to vie with you in the sublime of poetry; but he tells a plain tale better than you.
Many such men were extremely skillful in trade and made themselves rich enough to vie with the Roman aristocracy in outward show.
Conscious of his inability to vie with the hero, in his personal presence, he affected the utmost simplicity of dress and equipage.
Schoolgirls can be patriots as well as rebels, and the seminary can vie with the college, or possibly outdo it, occasion given.
The gleam of oranges and limes comes from the tangled groves; grapes and pomegranates vie with each other in unattended profusion.
Underwood and his sister Darrell had found two steadfast friends, each seeming to vie with the other in thoughtful, unobtrusive kindness.
During the next two years the French and English consuls seemed to vie with each other in the manufacture of petty grievances.
Squeaky made a model of a Teddy Pig so cunning and lifelike, it bid fair to vie in popularity with the famous Teddy Bear.
Then there were the fish of the Hawaiian Islands which vie with the butterflies of South America in their multitudinous combinations of colors.
The search still went on with unabated zeal, each boy trying to vie with his mates in the endeavor to make some new discovery.
One feature of this feast is that the two former adversaries are seated together and vie with each other in reciprocating food and drink.
This encouragement has great influence, and makes them vie with each other in endeavors to excel in sobriety, cleanliness, meekness and industry.
I am of opinion, were all his voluminous centuries of fabulous relations compiled, they would vie in number with the Iliads of many fore-running ages.
There are tones which nobody had ever invented yet, a richness, a profusion, a subtlety which almost vie with the resources of music.
Galleons would be of no use in such engagements, as they cannot vie with galleys, which can get under cover whenever they wish.
The English and Welsh, hitherto sworn foes, and continually at strife, seemed to vie with each other in their attacks on the invaders.
Inventors vie with each other as to who can produce an automatic pistol having the most powerful cartridge, just as rifle inventors do.
The female is much smaller, and seldom exceeds ten pounds in weight: her plumage cannot vie with that of the male in splendor.
Truly, they think and strive over their art, write treatises and dogmas and speculations, vie with and rival and outdo each other.
We bought some of this fruit, which we thought delicious: it is the only tropical fruit which, in my opinion, can vie with European kinds.
Their hospitality is entirely reserved for those monster meetings in which they vie with each other in displaying fine clothes and costly furniture.
Even the sound of battle, the mingled shrieks of wounded man and beast, and the roar of guns, cannot vie with it in horror.
The daily paper chronicles sensational charity, where men vie with each other to see who can give most and get the most advertising.
No furniture of the kind can vie with Hogarth's prints, as a fund of inexhaustible amusement, yet conveying at the same time lessons of morality.
Near the recreation establishment is the canteen, devoted solely to the sale of beer, and not permitted to vie in attractiveness with the recreation establishment.
The villagers vie with each other in having the best decorated and painted bullocks, and large sums are often expended in this way.
There is an originality, richness, and variety in his allegorical personages and fictions which almost vie with the splendors of the ancient mythology.
They were proud of having one countryman who had shown that he wanted nothing but opportunity to vie with the ablest Marshal of France.
Happy days, when my father, when you, when Arabella will vie in your calls on my filial respect, my confiding love, my watchful friendship.
A land where the hues of earth can vie with the brilliancy of the sunset, and the eye is feasted with delicately blended colors.
People are usually astonished, on seeing a good series of the color and variations of these two shells, how they vie with those of warmer regions.
These spaniels will sometimes vie with almost every other species of dog in intelligence, and will not yield to one of them in fidelity.
Oak, elm, beech, butternut, ash and maple, seemed to vie with each other in the size of their stems and the spread of their branches.
You would therein perceive how the old chroniclers vie with one another in lamenting unanimously over this bloody page of the history of their city.
Vanity and worry now begin to vie with each other as to which shall annoy and vex, sting and irritate their victim the more.
The several species of government vie with each other in the absurdity of their constitutions, and the oppression which they make their subjects endure.
It is a sociable race, and the women vie with each other in promoting the innocent gaiety which makes up a large part of their lives.
Others were sturdy yeomen of good repute in arms, also on horseback, (with their serfs on foot) anxious to vie with the knights themselves in gallant deeds.
Indeed, all the foreign ambassadors admit that none of the levees of the European courts can vie in splendor with those of the Chief Consul.
Each guest seemed to vie with all the others in complimenting Side, who had never looked more lovely or more unapproachable than in her bridal array.
They will vie with one another in dutiful affection to you, and the loss of one son will be supplied by the love of two others.
Prince, I cannot say too much, there is no spectacle in the world which can vie in magnificence with this one you have just given us.
And now it came on to rain; and rain and wind and sea appeared to vie with each other in wreaking their fury on the ill-starred expedition.
Purples and blues, reds and greens vie with each other in a seeming desire to extinguish the burnt orange which fades but slowly and reluctantly.
To leap from rock to rock, to attempt to vie with them in celerity and lightness appears to him, with reason, a foolish and impracticable enterprise.
They were dandies and no mistake, but in that respect had no advantage over him, for he could vie in style with the best of them.
These orders were instantly and actively obeyed; the crew seemed to vie with each other in their exertions, and strained every nerve in their eager emulation.
There were a number of young and pleasant men, who would have enlivened any company; but they seemed to vie with each other in the marvelous.
Warren's 'Diary of a Physician,' nothing of the kind has appeared that will vie, in point of interesting narrative, with these reminiscences of a retired physician.
In Love's Labor's Lost a passage occurs where the two seasons, Spring and Winter, vie with each other in extolling the cuckoo and the owl.
The daily paper chronicles instances of sensational charity, where men vie with each other to see who can give most and get the most advertising.
The king and princes seemed to vie with each other who should show him the greatest courtesy, or put the largest alms in his hands.
The reaction from the burial of the dead at such a time is always great, and the officers and men vie in their quick rebound to cheerfulness.
The times had by no means come to an end when many of the higher clergy sought to vie with the lay lords in warlike prowess.
Unquestionably, there is not one among the frail blondes and majestic brunettes of the flesh that can vie with their delicate grace and terrific strength.
It was a custom of the Plains Indians to hold peaceful meetings in summer, at which times they would vie with one another in friendliness and generosity.
In their speeches the two Presidents seemed to vie with each other in congratulations on the good relations and tranquil governments on both sides of the border.
The measures that are calculated to reach and affect the heart can not vie with blows and scoldings in respect to the promptness of their action.
Yet the day will doubtless come when ignorant English people will vie with each other to do honor to the man who struck the miscreant blow.
All his friends and kinsmen, and neighbors whom he hardly knows by sight, vie with each other in trying to keep pace with his returning appetite.
Their habit was to bring down a red cock, and tether him against a chalky cliff, and then vie with one another in shooting at him.
Much of his attention was employed on the enlargement and improvement of his cathedral, which he wished to vie with the most splendid Gothic edifices in Europe.
Lads, lasses, and children dance round the blaze, and when the flames have died down they vie with each other in leaping over the red embers.
It is never well to vie with experts in their own subjects; humiliation surely attends the audacious attempt, and a humiliation which receives and deserves no softening sympathy.
The man of drama contrived to reserve for Christmastime, when no political explosion can vie in interest with the domestic cracker, the announcement of his resignation.
If I should not prove to be quite the phoenix which might vie with so miraculous so unique a sister, I must then be contented to take shame to myself.
The sanctuary is a subterranean grotto, and is committed to the joint guardianship of the Romans, Greeks, and Armenians, who vie with each other in adorning it.
Falling readily into the ways of his better situated countrymen, he endeavors to vie with them, and in the process is lucky indeed if he avoids running into debt.
Since the oncoming of the inoperable tumor, which little by little has deprived him of his sight, the neighbors vie with each other by helping him.
The people in the canoes, on the contrary, seemed to vie with each other in the loudness of their lamentations, which we considered rather as an affectation than grief.
The Skylark, of peerless fame, is his own cousin; and, while he cannot hope to vie with the foreign bird in song, the same poet soul is in him.
The edge of the roof and the front part are covered with a profusion of sculptures and carvings that vie with those that adorn the finest monasteries.
From Texas to Niagara, and from New York to San Francisco, the millionaire and the more humble citizen vie with each other in friendly rivalry as stamp collectors.
I could tell stories, of how I've now and then cured such a distorted mind by a few sound remarks, though I can't vie with you in logic.
The natives and local authorities would consequently rejoice at an event so favorable to them, and vie with each other in according to the projectors every aid and protection.
A scourge so awful needed not the fears of the ignorant to exaggerate its terrors; yet men seemed to vie with each other in their dreadful conjectures regarding it.
Seven suitors vie with each other for the love of a beautiful girl, and she subjects them to a test that is full of mystery, magic and sheer amusement.
Then with supple fingers he played, drawing delicious melodies; or rasping with his nails he beat out complex harmonies that seemed to vie with an orchestra in richness of sound.
In this battle it would be difficult to enumerate particular cases of great bravery, where all seem to vie with each other in the brilliancy and gallantry of their achievements.
Music was simply one of the indispensable departments of their establishments, in the splendor and vastness of which they tried to outdo each other and vie with sovereign rulers.
The opals and gems from White Cliffs and Lightning Ridge in New South Wales vie with other precious stones from Queensland in forming one of the great attractions.
Apparently, all restraint was thrown aside, the noblest families seemed to vie with each other in crime and debauchery, and the pages of history are filled with countless awful iniquities.
They seem to vie with each other as to who can turn out the most ridiculous contrivance, for the farther it departs from the original spoon the more useless it becomes.
The great drawback to this place is the heavy character of its timber and the closeness of its thickets, which vie almost with the American woods in those respects.
No science of man can vie with the mathematical precision of the spider or the bee in the practical construction of lines and planes that shall enclose a given angle.
Nor could the worst aspects of Gould's conspiracy, bad as they were, begin to vie in disastrous results with the open and insidious abominations of the factory and landlord system.
Upon such occasions, great rivalry exists between the First Lieutenants of the different ships; they vie with each other who shall first have his sails stowed on the yards.
Let them vie with each other in the fineness of their native linen: their beauty and gentleness will as well appear, as if they were covered over with diamonds and brocade.
The carpet was green, bold with red roses; roses so vivid in coloring that they seemed to vie with the scarlet geraniums that filled the south window to overflowing.