emulous

We are emulous of all that man can do.

Both the and emulous demand a perfect accentuation.

Her voice was thin and emulous.

Her voice causes the rose to bloom and sets the emulous nightingale to song."

But in mine emulous honour let him die With every joint a wound, and that to-morrow!

He is not emulous, as Achilles is.

Most of what-it wants will be pressed upon it by emulous flatterers; the rest can be taken by force.

It can be enough of an ordeal for parents to throw - and pay for - the ever more emulous birthday parties of their own children.

He writes of "emulous younger writers" and "the perceived surplusage" of the man of letters.

In either case, Susan was lost to all sense of passing events; and Susan's breathing became musically regular, emulous of the musical regularity of the brook.

Tastefully emulous, Villard wanted his home to transcend its less fashionable location and magnify its owners through classical restraint rather than ostentatious display.

Young Patriotism, Culottic and Sansculottic, rushes forward emulous: That is my name; name, blood, and life, is all my Country's; why have I nothing more!

Admiration then gives place to friendship, properly so called, because it is cemented by esteem; and the being walks alone only dependent on heaven for that emulous panting after perfection which ever glows in a noble mind.

It was impossible to look without surprise on a place that had been prepared through so many generations, had cost so many tons of minted gold, and was maintained in order by so great a company of emulous servants.

The next moment, forgetting their own disappointment in that contagious sentiment of success, they gave three cheers that scared the sea-birds; and the next they had crowded round the captain, and were jostling together and groping with emulous hands in the new-opened mat.

Then must he bound from spot to spot, reduplicate, triplicate, sexduplicate his single personality, and swell and hasten his blows., until he produce a perfect illusion for the ear, and you would swear that a crowd of emulous masons were continuing merrily to roof the house.