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  • Even after his injury and when his job made great demands on his time, he always found the time to train and play with the children of our neighborhood, emulating Sefior Faz's ideals.   (source)
    emulating = imitating
  • Fastidious Johnny had bought his own cup, emulating men who were in better circumstances.   (source)
  • emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur   (source)
    emulative = imitative
  • emulating the confidence of their more experienced associates, Munro and Duncan slept without fear,   (source)
    emulating = imitating
  • Give up this wish for emulation's sake to face a stronger fighter.   (source)
    emulation = imitation's
  • Max was looking to emulate his moment of glory.†   (source)
  • Well, in retrospect, there was another story his godfather told that was just as worthy of emulation.†   (source)
  • I shut down the emulator and began to browse through my video files.†   (source)
  • "If, instead of trying to intimidate your young brother, you would emulate him and use that mind of yours, perhaps you'd find things much easier.†   (source)
  • I wore it everywhere, emulating in my own way my father's prewar flair for style.†   (source)
  • wanting to emulate the Illuminati†   (source)
  • He could emulate the captains of ships, in olden times — the ship going down in a storm, the captain in his cabin, doomed but intrepid, filling in the logbook.†   (source)
  • I'd like to appeal to all our listeners to emulate their example, perhaps by casting a protective charm over any Muggle dwellings in your street.†   (source)
  • Lord Tywin was oft quiet in council, preferring to listen before he spoke, a habit Tyrion himself tried to emulate.†   (source)
  • His commitment to their friendship of thirty-odd years is rooted in his admiration of Troy's honesty, capacity for hard work, and his strength, which Bono seeks to emulate.†   (source)
  • She couldn't stand racists of either color and had great distaste for bourgeois blacks who sought to emulate rich whites by putting on airs and "doing silly things like..."†   (source)
  • The last twenty minutes pass with Henri throwing objects at me—sometimes just allowing them to fall to the ground, other times deflecting them in a way that emulates a boomerang so that they twist in the air and go blazing back towards Henri.†   (source)
  • At least I didn't emulate the actions of a former colleague, who, according to SEAL folklore, fired up the direct link and advised a cruising U.S. fighter/bomber of the GPS position.†   (source)
  • Burnham claimed the agreement was a victory for the exposition, but in fact the fair's concessions were a breakthrough for organized labor, and the resulting contracts became models for other unions to emulate.†   (source)
  • No wonder so many modern writers have often borrowed from and emulated Homer.†   (source)
  • Everyone knew it worked, the three-headed model of management, and the dynamic was thereafter emulated elsewhere in the Fortune 500, with mixed results.†   (source)
  • BMW drivers take evasive action at the drop of a hat, emulating the drivers in the BMW advertisements-this is how they convince themselves they didn't get ripped off.†   (source)
  • But it was the fast food industry that turned franchising into a business model soon emulated by retail chains throughout the United States.†   (source)
  • ...when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence.†   (source)
  • I was sure I wanted to emulate their self-sacrifice.†   (source)
  • Paul studied Idaho, marking the feline movements, the swiftness of reflex that made him such a difficult weapons teacher to emulate.†   (source)
  • He was one of the people I wanted to emulate.†   (source)
  • He was, his son remembered, morally meticulous, and though Ishmael might strive to emulate this, there was...†   (source)
  • Dan envied the kid's perfect five o'clock shadow, something Dan could never emulate given the way his facial hair grew in patches.†   (source)
  • By the age of seventeen I knew that making it, in the terms I had tried to adopt, was not only unlikely, but false and empty, no more authentic for me than trying to emulate my Great-aunt Toyo.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I should emulate Nasuada .†   (source)
  • We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions.†   (source)
  • In her worry over Brett's wanting to emulate his father, ...†   (source)
  • David Beckham, Ronaldo ... , the stars they wanted to emulate on the field.†   (source)
  • He knew how to encourage other rabbits and to fill them with a spirit of emulation.†   (source)
  • But already Johnnie knew that the spurious elegance of this young person's appearance was not what she wished to emulate.†   (source)
  • Now I sat down to write a different kind of letter, one that tried to convey how much she meant to me, how much she had taught me, how I wanted to emulate her rigor and rectitude, how much I loved her and missed her.†   (source)
  • While the other armed services routinely had their components run exercises against allies or themselves in emulation of Eastern Bloc tactics, the navy had its attack submarines play their games against the real thing—and constantly.†   (source)
  • Admire but do not emulate.†   (source)
  • Bing Crosby had long been deeply impressed with Howard's racing success—he once suggested to his wife that they name their son Seabiscuit—but every attempt to emulate his friend ended in spectacular failure.†   (source)
  • Mortenson tried to emulate him, but bent only partway forward, stopping when he felt the flaps of his torn shirt gaping inelegantly and the breath of the fan on his bare back.†   (source)
  • He lived by simple values, values his children could understand and emulate.†   (source)
  • Aven hesitated only an instant before dropping to a slightly more dignified kneeling position, which Jack, John, Charles, and Bug quickly emulated.†   (source)
  • He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.†   (source)
  • His talented roommate was obviously a person to be studied and emulated.†   (source)
  • I had tried—with only moderate success—to emulate her in this.†   (source)
  • Really, considering everything I'd just gone through, Harriet was someone I should be trying to emulate, not convince otherwise.†   (source)
  • Case in point: Kahlid, the terrorist who'd emulated BoneMan and thrown Ryan into his psychological tailspin to begin with.†   (source)
  • I believe in the way he lives his life, and I try to emulate him.†   (source)
  • Seivarden's accent and way of speaking would be familiar to most educated Radchaai, from old entertainments and the way Anaander Mianaai's speech was widely emulated by prestigious—or hopefully prestigious—families.†   (source)
  • Some of us remember that, and we will not emulate that enemy.†   (source)
  • Here, we poor souls of this village may emulate Our Blessed Lord.†   (source)
  • As Max and the others seated themselves and struggled to emulate him, he abruptly stood and started walking around the room.†   (source)
  • Brandon Spikes became a leader others were willing to emulate.†   (source)
  • In fact, Oswald would very much like to emulate JFK.†   (source)
  • Riding the nose—standing at one end of the board to emulate the surfing maneuver.†   (source)
  • We feel that the training cadre is composed of specially selected elite men whose personal appearance and devotion to military excellence provide a high standard for the plebes to emulate.†   (source)
  • The "Empire waist"—a waistline beginning just beneath the bust—was popularized by Napoléon Bonaparte's wife, Joséphine, who, during her husband's reign as emperor beginning in 1804, favored the "classical" style of Greek art, and emulated the togalike robes worn by figures on ancient pottery from that time.†   (source)
  • Of course, to become a legend, one that other people admire and want to emulate, you also have to add faith and dedication to what you love.†   (source)
  • I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the "do nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist.†   (source)
  • His path in life was to be emulated, she said, not condemned.†   (source)
  • But in the end I had enough good sense to realize that as a fiction writer I was better trying to emulate Louis Pasteur.†   (source)
  • And so, renouncing cynicism, in the back of his mind he had taken the road Will Jr would take: emulation.†   (source)
  • Seek to emulate the wind and the lightning in your going!†   (source)
  • As a child in a tightly knit Puritan family, John Quincy had been taught by his mother to emulate his famous father; and as a Senator, when colleagues and friends deserted him on every side, it was to his father that he turned for support and approval.†   (source)
  • ...admiring and emulating a man of questionable convictions?   (source)
    emulating = imitating
  • 'Because this impostor, this assassin who calls himself Bourne, can be trapped by the extraordinary man he emulates--'   (source)
    emulates = imitates
  • I booted up my emulator and selected Robotron: 2084, one of my alltime favorite games.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn demanded, emulating Colonel Cathcart's harsh, self-righteous tone.†   (source)
  • They are anger, slight (subdivisible into contempt, spite and insolence), mildness, love or friendship, fear, confidence, shame, shamelessness, favor, benevolence, pity, virtuous indignation, envy, emulation and contempt.†   (source)
  • Woundwort believed in emulation and he let it be known that there would be plenty of chances to win rewards.†   (source)
  • As long as I could fill my days in emulation of Elinor, I did not have to closely consider my own state, or my own bleak-seeming future.†   (source)
  • She emulated Brown—putting the team through five days a week of running drills and pushing the young women to work harder and to get better.†   (source)
  • Though I emulated them, I never thought it possible for a boy from the countryside to rival them in their worldliness.†   (source)
  • Rousseau did not care for the allusion, for he had no intention of emulating the conduct of the very creatures he was fighting.†   (source)
  • McLean's bucking for rank," Braselton said, in the only amusing aside of his mediocre and emulative life.†   (source)
  • He breezed along beautifully, even emulating certain characteristic mispronunciations of General Dreedle's, and he was not the least bit intimidated by General Peckem's new colonel until he suddenly recalled that General Peckem detested General Dreedle.†   (source)
  • He had in his possession a file, which he said had been prepared by the security department of his organization, though he did not say precisely what organization that was, only that its members emulated the original followers of Muhammad, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • It was a grand display of wizardry, Nathan's production-inspired mockery of such outrageous, runaway, sublime silliness that I found myself emulating my father, gasping, shorn of strength, collapsing sideways on the greasy banquette.†   (source)
  • If he could emulate Hall, it would quickly catapult Mountain Madness to profitability.†   (source)
  • I urge them to emulate successful adults in the various professions.†   (source)
  • It pointed to the stars and tried to emulate the shaman's speech, but struggled to do so.†   (source)
  • He loved his brother's reckless wrath, but it was their lord father he must try and emulate.†   (source)
  • There was a peacefulness about her father that she'd always yearned to emulate.†   (source)
  • Someone he could admire and try to emulate.†   (source)
  • Is the magic draw still strong enough to make them want to emulate that culture?†   (source)
  • The Knight of Flowers was no sort of man for any boy to emulate.†   (source)
  • Poems celebrated her, streets and squares bore her name, young girls sought to emulate her feats.†   (source)
  • Some pages back I touched upon Andre Gide and the-Gidean diaries I had been trying to emulate.†   (source)
  • Then I said something about considering another solution to the Arrakeen problem and I said the Emperor's prison planet inspired me to emulate him.†   (source)
  • They it is who tend to be always insisting this or that figure is the one to emulate, or repeating what some particular hero is said to have pronounced upon professional matters.†   (source)
  • Or worrying that, in the future, Jared or Lynn or Annette might begin to emulate their father, escaping regularly into booze or pills or God knows what else, until they ruined their own lives.†   (source)
  • I know…… Do you think he didn't tell me about this because he was afraid I might emulate Morzan, like Murtagh has?†   (source)
  • This made him a genuine hero for Soviet seamen to emulate, and the State had named its greatest engineering achievement in his memory.†   (source)
  • Liberals could emulate the willingness of many evangelicals to tithe--to donate 10 percent of their incomes each year to charity.†   (source)
  • Stanley was soon courted by King Leopold II of Belgium, a weak monarch who believed that Belgium should emulate other European powers by establishing its own colonies in Central Africa.†   (source)
  • I said I was grateful for the insight into the state of our country's highest councils and would be more grateful still to hear other such poems, for are not all His Majesty's loyal subjects bound to strive to emulate their king?†   (source)
  • Cody said, "When I fell in love with country music a long time ago, as a singer I started to emulate the singers that I liked.†   (source)
  • The following day I went up to Harlem, an area that had assumed legendary proportions in my mind since the 1950s when I watched young men in Soweto emulate the fashions of Harlem dandies.†   (source)
  • Pass on the kindness, emulate the hero.†   (source)
  • Mahu-ika inquired, "What feat of mutual prowess and emulation shall it be?"†   (source)
  • In his youth he had felt an amicable contempt for the works of Guy Francon or Ralston Holcombe, and emulating them had seemed no more than innocent quackery.†   (source)
  • There is nobody here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organized to prevent feeling alone.†   (source)
  • Years later he remembered Gant, his mustache flecked with foam, quaffing mightily at the glass: the magnificent gusto, the beautiful thirst inspired in him the desire for emulation, and he wondered if all beer were bitter, if there were not a period of initiation into the pleasures of this great beverage.†   (source)
  • Emulation is, after all, a young man's spirit, and Perrault, by the time his monastery was well established, was already full of years.†   (source)
  • …rose in the rich walnut twilight of his bedchamber, noted approvingly, through the black lenses of the glasses that gave his long, subtle, and contemptuous face its final advantage over the rabble, that one of his country bumpkins was coming from the third pasture with a slopping pail of new milk, another was sharpening a scythe in the young glint of the sun, and another, emulating his more intelligent fellow, the horse, was backing a buggy slowly under the carriage shed.†   (source)
  • When the Lord himself answers Job out of the whirlwind, He makes no attempt to vindicate His work in ethical terms, but only magnifies His Presence, bidding Job do likewise on earth in human emulation of the way of heaven: Gird up thy loins now like a man; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.†   (source)
  • To be sure, my dear, that is very stupid indeed, and shows a great want of genius and emulation.†   (source)
  • The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.†   (source)
  • Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.†   (source)
  • Hence his admiration and his emulation of that shining enchanter.†   (source)
  • When his manager had gone about the business Henchard was fired with emulation.†   (source)
  • I It was a new idea—the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct from the intellectual and emulative life.†   (source)
  • It not only emulated the form of the neighbouring church of the parish, but vied with it in antiquity.†   (source)
  • His name to-day, in this broad land, means little, and comes to fifty million ears laden with no incense of memory or emulation.†   (source)
  • 'My son's great capacity was tempted on, there, by a feeling of voluntary emulation and conscious pride,' the fond lady went on to say.†   (source)
  • Her emulation had been awakened by what she had heard on such subjects; and it at once struck her that now was the moment for her to show that she was truly Sergeant Dunham's child.†   (source)
  • The chief emulation among them seemed to be, to see which could manage to be the uncleanest and most prosperous with vermin.†   (source)
  • RAPHAEL The sun-orb sings, in emulation, 'Mid brother-spheres, his ancient round: His path predestined through Creation He ends with step of thunder-sound.†   (source)
  • Without emulating the feelings of an Emma towards her Henry, she would have attended on Louisa with a zeal above the common claims of regard, for his sake; and she hoped he would not long be so unjust as to suppose she would shrink unnecessarily from the office of a friend.†   (source)
  • One was an aged dog, whose strength seemed to be sustained purely by generous emulation, and the other a pup, that gambolled even while he pressed most warmly on the chase.†   (source)
  • She boasted of beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of French books they could translate; till my spirit was moved to emulation as I listened.†   (source)
  • And now—without the indirect charm of school-emulation—Telemaque was mere bran; so were the hard, dry questions on Christian Doctrine; there was no flavor in them, no strength.†   (source)
  • My son Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his father, he feels for you.†   (source)
  • At court, and in the castles of the great nobles, where the pomp and state of a court was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were delivered in the same tongue.†   (source)
  • "There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master," cried the young emulator of the furious Treville.†   (source)
  • This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.†   (source)
  • [Footnote m: The States in which slavery is abolished usually do what they can to render their territory disagreeable to the negroes as a place of residence; and as a kind of emulation exists between the different States in this respect, the unhappy blacks can only choose the least of the evils which beset them.†   (source)
  • 'Among a number of students there is some emulation and enthusiasm, and I shall have a chance of rising in the world.†   (source)
  • If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, were he presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm Whale Fishery) to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed pre-eminently presuming and ridiculous.†   (source)
  • The little urchins, clad in coarse but warm garments, stood gathered around the more distinguished marksmen, with their hands stuck under their waistbands, listening eagerly to the boastful stories of skill that had been exhibited on former occasions, and were already emulating in their hearts these wonderful deeds in gunnery.†   (source)
  • The heart of the young Gascon beat as if it would burst through his side—not from fear, God be thanked, he had not the shade of it, but with emulation; he fought like a furious tiger, turning ten times round his adversary, and changing his ground and his guard twenty times.†   (source)
  • M. de Bellegarde, whose wife, her imagination having apparently taken flight to the tailor's, was fluttering her silken wings in emulation, shook hands with Newman, and said with a more persuasive accent than the latter had ever heard him use, "You may count upon me."†   (source)
  • The deep remembrance of the sense I had, of being utterly without hope now; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that day by day what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, would pass away from me, little by little, never to be brought back any more; cannot be written.†   (source)
  • "An institution upholding honor, the source of emulation, is one similar to the Legion d'honneur of the great Emperor Napoleon, not harmful but helpful to the success of the service, but not a class or court privilege."†   (source)
  • But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.†   (source)
  • The moon has eyed Tom with a dull cold stare, as admitting some puny emulation of herself in his desert region unfit for life and blasted by volcanic fires; but she has passed on and is gone.†   (source)
  • It was a project of mine to replace the tournament with something which might furnish an escape for the extra steam of the chivalry, keep those bucks entertained and out of mischief, and at the same time preserve the best thing in them, which was their hardy spirit of emulation.†   (source)
  • Of this famous house, some of the greatest noblemen, prelates, and dignitaries in England are governors: and as the boys are very comfortably lodged, fed, and educated, and subsequently inducted to good scholarships at the University and livings in the Church, many little gentlemen are devoted to the ecclesiastical profession from their tenderest years, and there is considerable emulation to procure nominations for the foundation.†   (source)
  • Speranski went on to say that honor, l'honeur, cannot be upheld by privileges harmful to the service; that honor, l'honneur, is either a negative concept of not doing what is blameworthy or it is a source of emulation in pursuit of commendation and rewards, which recognize it.†   (source)
  • His lordship extended his good-will to little Rawdon: he pointed out to the boy's parents the necessity of sending him to a public school, that he was of an age now when emulation, the first principles of the Latin language, pugilistic exercises, and the society of his fellow-boys would be of the greatest benefit to the boy.†   (source)
  • But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the approach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.†   (source)
  • There is only one respect in which I would like you to emulate your father.†   (source)
  • we might at least emulate the illustrious and spare pretty women.†   (source)
  • The example of music, which has long been an abstract art, and which avant-garde poetry has tried so much to emulate, is interesting.†   (source)
  • I resolved that I would emulate the black woman if I were ever faced with a white mob; I would conceal a weapon, pretend that I had been crushed by the wrong done to one of my loved ones; then, just when they thought I had accepted their cru-elty as the law of my life, I would let go with my gun and kill as many of them as possible before they killed me.†   (source)
  • If we are now called upon to endure what they have been suffering, we shall emulate their courage, and if final victory rewards our toils they shall share the gains, aye, and freedom shall be restored to all.†   (source)
  • When he finished, people cried, "Ah!" and crowded forward to try it, eager to emulate the master.†   (source)
  • …since arriving at Lycurgus—how and why he had come there, the incident of the slain child in Kansas City, without, however, mention of the clipping which he himself had preserved and then forgotten; his meeting with Roberta, and his desire for her; her, pregnancy and how he had sought to get her out of it—on and on until, she having threatened to expose him, he had at last, and in great distress and fright, found the item in The Times-Union and had sought to emulate that in action.†   (source)
  • …and the woman than about the relations between both and our courts of law and private juries of matrons, produces that sensation of evasion, of dissatisfaction, of fundamental irrelevance, of shallowness, of useless disagreeableness, of total failure to edify and partial failure to interest, which is as familiar to you in the theatres as it was to me when I, too, frequented those uncomfortable buildings, and found our popular playwrights in the mind to (as they thought) emulate Ibsen.†   (source)
  • That such a scene might stir the less expensively dressed to emulate the more expensively dress could scarcely be laid at the door of anything save the false ambition of the minds of those so affected.†   (source)
  • It would be a very clever move if Hans Castorp's good uncle would spend a few weeks here reclining comfortably on his balcony and in general emulate the fine example set by his nephew.†   (source)
  • But let there be no misunderstanding here—he had no ambition to emulate fresh-air dandies and rakish athletes, who if fashion had demanded it, would have been just as fanatic about playing cards in a stuffy room.†   (source)
  • At one o'clock the festivities were still under way, held together partly by the leaden palsy of drink, partly by the unusual pleasure of making a night of it, partly by the effect of Peeperkorn's personality, and partly by the deterrent example offered by Saint Peter and friends, whose weakness of the flesh no one wanted to emulate.†   (source)
  • I might envy, though I couldn't emulate, the imaginative writer so constituted as to see his fable first and to make out its agents afterwards.†   (source)
  • The gardens were arranged to emulate those of Versailles, and amidst the terraces and groves there are some huge allegorical waterworks still, which spout and froth stupendously upon fete-days, and frighten one with their enormous aquatic insurrections.†   (source)
  • The student may read Homer or AEschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.†   (source)
  • Emma did not find herself equal to give the pleased assent, which no doubt he was in the habit of receiving, to emulate the "Very true, my love," which must have been usually administered by his travelling companion; but she had resolution enough to refrain from making any answer at all.†   (source)
  • You appear to care only for the pleasure of the hour, and you give yourself up to it with a violence which I confess I am not able to emulate.†   (source)
  • The feeling, from being morbid, was changed to a healthful and active desire to emulate the character, the condition, and, peradventure, the wealth of their ancestors also.†   (source)
  • She found herself desiring to emulate them, and in twenty such ways this lady presented herself as a model.†   (source)
  • The general tone of the story belongs to all ranks and all countries, which emulate each other in describing the rambles of a disguised sovereign, who, going in search of information or amusement, into the lower ranks of life, meets with adventures diverting to the reader or hearer, from the contrast betwixt the monarch's outward appearance, and his real character.†   (source)
  • …we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, sometimes on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Saleve, the pleasant banks of Montalegre, and at a distance, surmounting all, the beautiful Mont Blanc and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her; sometimes coasting the opposite banks, we saw the mighty Jura opposing its dark side to the ambition that would quit its native country, and an almost insurmountable barrier to the invader who should wish to enslave it.†   (source)
  • As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour; accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian from the man: profoundly esteem the one, and freely forgive the other.†   (source)
  • Still no sign of expectation or interest escaped from the youngest among them, the whole appearing to emulate the most phlegmatic of their savage allies, in an exhibition of patience.†   (source)
  • On the other hand she was equally sure that, should the occasion offer, her new friend would strike off some happy view of her old: Madame Merle was too humorous, too observant, not to do justice to Henrietta, and on becoming acquainted with her would probably give the measure of a tact which Miss Stackpole couldn't hope to emulate.†   (source)
  • Then, with an elevation of breeding that many in a more cultivated state of society might profitably emulate, one of the chiefs drew the attention of the young men from the weakness they had just witnessed, by saying, in a cheerful voice, addressing himself in courtesy to Magua, as the newest comer: "The Delawares have been like bears after the honey pots, prowling around my village.†   (source)
  • I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,   (source)
    emulate = imitate
  • an envious emulator of every man's good parts   (source)
    emulator = someone who imitates
  • the teeth of emulation   (source)
    emulation = imitation
  • emulate a god   (source)
    emulate = imitating
  • If any, positively, connivance, introduction of emulation (material, a prosperous rival agency of publicity: moral, a successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the other, protecting the separator from both.†   (source)
  • This emulation is most noticeable in the large cities of the East, and particularly in what Schele de Vere called "Boston and the Boston dependencies."†   (source)
  • …from extreme circles on the questions of the respective visits of Their Royal Highnesses the duke and duchess of York (real) and of His Majesty King Brian Boru (imaginary): thirdly, a conflict between professional etiquette and professional emulation concerning the recent erections of the Grand Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street: fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist's non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical expression of…†   (source)
  • An emulating zeal inspires his train: They run; they snatch; they rush into the main.†   (source)
  • Emulation Envy Griefe, for the success of a Competitor in wealth, honour, or other good, if it be joyned with Endeavour to enforce our own abilities to equal or exceed him, is called EMULATION: but joyned with Endeavour to supplant or hinder a Competitor, ENVIE.†   (source)
  • Better it were they all came by his father, Or by his father there were none at all; For emulation who shall now be nearest Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.†   (source)
  • And this humour of ordering their gardens so well is not only kept up by the pleasure they find in it, but also by an emulation between the inhabitants of the several streets, who vie with each other.†   (source)
  • See anger, zeal and fortitude supply; Even avarice, prudence; sloth, philosophy; Lust, through some certain strainers well refined, Is gentle love, and charms all womankind; Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave; Nor virtue, male or female, can we name, But what will grow on pride, or grow on shame.†   (source)
  • If it be a public trust or office, in which they are clothed with equal dignity and authority, there is peculiar danger of personal emulation and even animosity.†   (source)
  • We should soon see an honest emulation among the married women, which of them could bring the fattest child to the market.†   (source)
  • I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects: and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous…†   (source)
  • And Of Honour And Order Lastly, considering what values men are naturally apt to set upon themselves; what respect they look for from others; and how little they value other men; from whence continually arise amongst them, Emulation, Quarrells, Factions, and at last Warre, to the destroying of one another, and diminution of their strength against a Common Enemy; It is necessary that there be Lawes of Honour, and a publique rate of the worth of such men as have deserved, or are able to…†   (source)
  • Also to receive benefits, though from an equall, or inferiour, as long as there is hope of requitall, disposeth to love: for in the intention of the receiver, the obligation is of ayd, and service mutuall; from whence proceedeth an Emulation of who shall exceed in benefiting; the most noble and profitable contention possible; wherein the victor is pleased with his victory, and the other revenged by confessing it.†   (source)
  • Salmoneus, suff'ring cruel pains, I found, For emulating Jove; the rattling sound Of mimic thunder, and the glitt'ring blaze Of pointed lightnings, and their forky rays.†   (source)
  • …soever be the Counsellours in any affaire, the benefit of their Counsell is greater, when they give every one his Advice, and reasons of it apart, than when they do it in an Assembly, by way of Orations; and when they have praemeditated, than when they speak on the sudden; both because they have more time, to survey the consequences of action; and are lesse subject to be carried away to contradiction, through Envy, Emulation, or other Passions arising from the difference of opinion.†   (source)
  • This son of Dolon bore his grandsire's name, But emulated more his father's fame; His guileful father, sent a nightly spy, The Grecian camp and order to descry: Hard enterprise! and well he might require Achilles' car and horses, for his hire: But, met upon the scout, th' Aetolian prince In death bestow'd a juster recompense.†   (source)
  • Lastly, amongst the points by the Church of Rome declared necessary for Salvation, there be so many, manifestly to the advantage of the Pope, and of his spirituall subjects, residing in the territories of other Christian Princes, that were it not for the mutuall emulation of those Princes, they might without warre, or trouble, exclude all forraign Authority, as easily as it has been excluded in England.†   (source)
  • [II] Had I the Choice Had I the choice to tally greatest bards, To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will, Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax, Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies, Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers; These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter, Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer, Or breathe one breath…†   (source)
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