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Definition of Outroaring
1. outroar [v] - See also: outroar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outroaring
Literary usage of Outroaring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1840)
"... waters and icy masses, the tides, and the winds, all in angry collision, and
the raging of the elements outroaring the delirious cries of human terror. ..."
2. History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1854)
"... Mahon outroaring torrents in their force, " Bankes the precise, and
fluent "Wilberforce ! ..."
3. Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and by William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"Minstrels and ballad- singers, it seems, attended fairs in the time of Elizabeth,
and we hear of two men, Outroaring Dick and Wat ..."
4. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1900)
"Outroaring Dick was a strolling singer of such repute that he got twenty shillings
a day by singing at Braintree Fair; but who was that desperate Dick that ..."
5. Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1836)
"... describes him as " Mahon, outroaring torrents in their course." So strongly
did he always enforce his arguments by his gestures, as to become indeed ..."
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