Lexicographical Neighbors of Outburns
Literary usage of Outburns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"... sons that kiss her mouth, Children worthier all the birthright given of the
ardent north Where the fire of heart; outburns the suns that fire the south. ..."
2. The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song: Selected from English and American by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1910)
"... sees hope That outburns the sun ? At what shrine what wine, At what board what
bread, Salt as blood or brine, Shall we share in sign How we poor were ..."
3. The American Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by Caroline May (1853)
"Behold! how mine outburns them all ? God's smile is in its glow!" Fair blows the
wind, the sail swells free, High shoots the diamond spray, ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1828)
"... the twenty-four states and the territories catching the flame; the Indians of
the forest kindling in a blaze, that outburns all their firewater, ..."
5. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... Her gold to Chrysoprase; When each low-hanging star outburns Its faint,
mysterious rays, As from the prison of faery urns Which faery hands upraise. ..."
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