Rivalry

Examples

• It was inevitable that Mecca and Medina should be in a state of rivalry and bickering feud. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Louis XIV set up an academy of sciences in rivalry with the English Royal Society of Charles II and the similar association at Florence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had seen something in his travels of rivalry for the means of subsistence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Rowena, said De Bracy, art thou, too, deceived by the common error of thy sex, who think there can be no rivalry but that respecting their own charms? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A generous rivalry, no doubt, as to which should be most attentive to the dear sufferer in the state bedroom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The bidding ran on with warming rivalry. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The rivalry between the McCormick and Hussey machines continued for many years, and they were frequently in competition both in America and England. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There was no jealousy--hardly rivalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The stimulus of this rivalry doubtless had much to do with the development and success of the reaper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When her sweet voice died away, an emulous nightingale began to sing as if in rivalry, and Helena burst out into girlish laughter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There was to be no rivalry, no qualification to the rigid unity of the Church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then I need fear no rivalry from you, Caliphronas? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• By following this course, she thought her mother's mind would be set at rest concerning the rivalry of Crispin with Maurice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You did not, nor will you fancy, pursued he, that a saint in heaven perturbs herself with rivalries of earth? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Tyrannies and race hatred, national rivalries, sex problems, the difficulties of artistic endeavor, all failures, crimes, vices--there is not one which he will not relate to private capitalism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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