Lexicographical Neighbors of Outmastered
Literary usage of Outmastered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey by Homer (1903)
"Next in the wrestling-ring they put to test Their champions, and Euryalus the
rest outmastered: and ..."
2. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... either to Eustacia or to the revelers, for a round yellow moon was rising
behind her, though its rays had not yet outmastered those from the west. ..."
3. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1914)
"Every sort of passive defence, armour, fortifications, and so forth, was being
outmastered by this tremendous increase on the destructive side. ..."
4. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... but the strain that precedes it is sweeter; And never was poem yet writ, but
the meaning outmastered the metre. Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery ..."
5. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"Nor can I forget your and Miss Lamb's sympathy and kindness when glooms outmastered
me ; and that your pen spontaneously sparkled in the book, ..."
6. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... but the strain that precedes it is sweeter; And never was poem yet writ, but
the meaning outmastered the metre. Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery ..."
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