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Definition of Outsparkles
1. outsparkle [v] - See also: outsparkle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outsparkles
Literary usage of Outsparkles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"... intended for the model of empty-headed coxcombry, quite outsparkles in
conversation his brother Tom Fashion, though the latter in action is clever ..."
2. Birds and Man by William Henry Hudson (1920)
"Still, it was a human voice ; and, just as Carlotta Patti (outshining the best
of her sister-singers even as the diamond outsparkles all other gems) rose to ..."
3. The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the by Elizabeth Inchbald (1808)
"... which outsparkles every other, " The School for Scandal," made its first
appearance at Drury Lane; whilst " Know your own Mind," was in the zenith of ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"Still, it was a human voice; and, just as Carlotta Patti (outshining the best of
her sister-singers even as the diamond outsparkles all other gems) rose to ..."
5. The Freedom of the Fields by Charles Conrad Abbott (1898)
"... emerald outsparkles the dewy mosses ?j Here, at the foot of an old oak that
had sheltered many a passing Indian from the midsummer sun, and perhaps bore ..."
6. Clear Skies and Cloudy by Charles Conrad Abbott (1898)
"... but there is a glitter in the eye that outsparkles the diamond ; there is the
line of strength in every muscle if not the line of beauty, ..."
7. Festus: A Poem by Philip James Bailey (1903)
"Fill 1 I'll drink it till I die, Helen's lip and Helen's eye 1 An eye which
outsparkles The beads of the wine, With a hue which ..."
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