out-dazzle

Updated: June 4, 2025

And then a lazy, drawling voice a voice that once had been sweetest music to my ears, but now was loathsome as the croaking of Stygian frogs addressed me. "Why, here is a great change, sir saint! We had heard you had turned anchorite; and behold you in cloth of gold, shining as you would out-dazzle Phoebus."

Rafael Sabatini - The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza