All 4 Uses of
vie
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.†
Chpt 2
- But he must send me La Vie de Jesus by M. Leo Taxil.†
Chpt 3 *
- The gombeenwoman Eliza Tudor had underlinen enough to vie with her of Sheba.†
Chpt 9
- Had kind fate but willed her to be born a gentlewoman of high degree in her own right and had she only received the benefit of a good education Gerty MacDowell might easily have held her own beside any lady in the land and have seen herself exquisitely gowned with jewels on her brow and patrician suitors at her feet vying with one another to pay their devoirs to her.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(vie) compete for something