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Definition of Rivalling
1. rival [v] - See also: rival
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rivalling
Literary usage of Rivalling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington (1895)
"... her leg broken, and her side eaten into; and there were Bruin's big telltale
footprints, rivalling in size a Gladstone bag, as he had made his way down ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... banks are fine edifices; and they are now erecting many buildings of the most
superb description; among them are, a new hotel, rivalling Astor's in size ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... by which there issued from a Scottish provincial press a series of books
rivalling, in elegance and accurate taste, the productions of a Densley or a ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"as shown by statistics "rivalling that of the bloodiest wars." • In detail a
railroad corporation's duties to its employees require it to provide reasonably ..."
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