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Definition of Outstaring
1. outstare [v] - See also: outstare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstaring
Literary usage of Outstaring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"... have rivaled Fray Junípero himself in outstaring an ever-present death, and
it was no lack of courage on his part but the fault of his horse that turned ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Where Shasta shapes its mighty cone, Where Mitchell heaves into the skies, Silent
he glares, austere, alone, With sun-outstaring eyes. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... perhaps, grim with formidable cuts of men outstaring monsters—have all a deep
delight in dragons ; which complex emotion, did we choose to philosophize, ..."
4. Poems by Anne Whitney, Henry Kirke White (1859)
"Those peaks, ghosts outstaring Time, through darkness glimmering ! No rush of
pinion there, nor bubbling low— But death, and silence past imagining ;— Only, ..."
5. Poems by Anne Whitney (1906)
"Those peaks, like ghosts outstaring Time, through darkness glimmering! No rush
of pinion there, nor bubbling low— But death, and silence past imagining;— ..."
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