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Definition of Outstares
1. outstare [v] - See also: outstare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstares
Literary usage of Outstares
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"There is a little head of a boy in a blue dress (for once in a way) which kills
every picture in the room, outstares all the red-coated generals, ..."
2. The Christian Examiner (1856)
"... some one " all the stars outstares, Gazing them down," we are strikingly
reminded of some of the verbal exploits of Mr. Alexander Smith ; but when the ..."
3. Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets by William Howitt (1863)
"Full well he knows what minds combined cnn do, Full well maintains his birthright—He
is freel And, frown for frown, outstares monopoly ! ..."
4. The Moral Damage of War by Walter Walsh (1906)
"... a refuge of despair lapsing into blatant defiance and an atheism that outstares
the heavens ; it is the assertion of " manifest destiny. ..."
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