Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbidden
Literary usage of Outbidden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Rome to the Battle of Actium by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (1894)
"... Tarentum, Capua, and Carthage—outbidden by the tribune Livius Drusus—Not
re-elected a third time as tribune for 121—Proposal to annul his colony of ..."
2. Letters from the Highlands, Or, The Famine of 1847 by Robert Somers (1848)
"... upon the People— Motives of the Lairds—The Sheep Farmer outbidden by the
Sportsman— An Historical Parallel—A Crisis approaching in the Highlands. ..."
3. The Game of Ombre by Henry Hucks Gibbs, Chiswick Press (1878)
"He is indeed liable to be in his turn outbidden by either of the others offering
to play Solo or the Vole (to be ..."
4. Autobiography of Dean Merivale, with Selections from His Correspondence by Charles Merivale (1899)
"They have studiously outbidden every concession of the Tories, and are now mad
because, concession exhausted, the Tories at last stand at bay. ..."
5. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1899)
"... who had thus outbidden his neighbor, and the imprudence of the Huron in giving
himself to two Masters, aroused jealousy in the mind of the ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"provoked criticism, and were attacked at an early period; afterwards they were,
without offence, excused, defended, or outbidden. ..."
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