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Definition of Outflew
1. outfly [v] - See also: outfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outflew
Literary usage of Outflew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharonnida by William Chamberlayne (1820)
"... but busy fame outflew His eager haste, and ere's arrival spread Some scattered
fragments of the news, which bred Suspicion of that doubtful truth, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"They ranged the heights and passes through, Nor for evil tidings backward drew,
Until seven hundred swords outflew. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Milton, John Mitford, Walter Scott (1850)
"He spake: and to confirm his words outflew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from
the thighs Of mighty cherubim ; the sudden blaze 6C5 Far round illumin'd ..."
4. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... Wordsworth as he outflew Thomson and Collins. But the inspiration is in the
highest degree fitful and fragmentary, and is but seldom found allied with ..."
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