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Definition of Outstared
1. outstare [v] - See also: outstare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstared
Literary usage of Outstared
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"The two sunflowers that stood before the door, outstared by the sun, drooped
their brazen faces to the sand; and the little cicada-like insects cried aloud ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... our companions the clouds, and we wished it had been meridian, and not the
decline of day, that without winking we might have outstared the sun. ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1838)
"... with a pair of eyes that could have outstared all the eyes in a peacock's
tail, gave him a reception at the parlour-door, and invited him into its ..."
4. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"... who has outstared a thousand générations, blush deep scarlet. My equal !
my superior !—I am, at least, good Master Crumb, the proprietor of my own house ..."
5. The Fly (1839)
"outstared all the eyes in a peacock's tail, gave him a reception at the parlour
door, and invited him into its sacred interior—why then the poor gentleman ..."
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