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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
outsoar .
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Examples
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{108} Evidently, granting all the facts, more than one reading of the facts is possible; not cloistered mystics, or anchorites withdrawn from the world, but heroes engaged in fighting its ills, have steadfastly proclaimed that God is good; is it an altogether unreasonable hypothesis that their faith, if it outsoars ours, may be the result of
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer
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If the poet's genius consists of his peculiar capacity for love, then in proportion as he outsoars the rest of humanity he will be saddened, if not disillusioned, by the half-hearted return of his love.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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And when the Eagle outsoars the Wren it shall be proved that the Headman of Windy-Gap is a catiff, and his village and everyone in it will be sold to the Saracens.
The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926
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He now had to learn the bitter knowledge of the trials which beset a President whose vision outsoars that of the practical rulers of his party.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919
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A joy that is more than gladness; a hope that outsoars desire;
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Love flies straight to God, and outsoars intellect.
Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field 1902
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This distant hill outsoars that less distant, but all are on the wing, and the plain raises its verge.
Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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This distant hill outsoars that less distant, but all are on the wing, and the plain raises its verge.
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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The emotion of the lovers is reinforced by the penetrating influences of the beauty of external nature; and both are interpreted with incomparable harmonies of style and poignant lyrical cries, in which the violin note outsoars the orchestra.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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By two strong brethren whose bounteous blossom outsoars it, year after year,
A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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