Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstriven
Literary usage of Outstriven
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-one Plays from the Drama of Greece by Brander Matthews (1916)
"And Ruth, as a thing outstriven, Is fled, fled, from the shores of the Greek,
Away on the winds of heaven. Dark is the house afar, Where an old king called ..."
2. Life and Light for Woman by Woman's Board of Missions (1898)
"In this city there are four societies, and each had outstriven the other in doing
honor to the occasion. The church was decorated artistically with festoons ..."
3. The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-one Plays from the Drama of Greece by Brander Matthews (1916)
"And the great Oath waxeth weak; And Ruth, as a thing outstriven, Is fled, fled,
from the shores of the Greek, Away on the winds of heaven. ..."
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