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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Well, it's hard work to write," said Ben, yawning. "I'd rather chop wood." "I wish! knew how," exclaimed Joel, longingly. "Just you try every day; Ben'll teach you, Joe," said his mother, eagerly, "and then I'll let you write." "I will!" cried Joe; "then, Dave, you'll see how I'll write I tell you!" "And I'm goin' to ma, can't I?" said Davie, unwilling to be outdone.
There was Tracy Park, and Grassy Springs, and Brier Hill, and Collingwood, and he'd be dumbed if he'd be outdone by any of 'em. 'He'd like to call it 'Liza Ann, he said to Arthur, whom he met one day in the park, and to whom he began to talk of his new house.
Visions of boundless wealth floated before the fascinated eyes of the people in the two most celebrated countries of Europe. The English commenced their career of extravagance somewhat later than the French; but as soon as the delirium seized them, they were determined not to be outdone.
The Widow Weld made a frightful fuss. Said that patriotism was all right, but that there were limits. Betty put on her organdie and went. It began with cream soup and ended with shortcake. Even Chug realized that his mother had outdone herself. After his second helping of shortcake he leaned back and said, "Death, where is thy sting?" But his mother refused to laugh at that.
What must have been their exquisite state when the simple line drawn by Protogenes, in the consciousness of his acknowledged perfection, and which was intended to announce the man who drew it, as much as if he had told his name, was so far excelled by another simple line over it by Apelles, that the former at once confessed himself outdone?
In his hand he carried a Christmas candle of various colors. Never, he thought, was a rainbow so exquisitely tinted as that candle. Carefully he watched it when it winked its sleepy eye, eagerly begging his mamma to snuff it awake again. How gayly the streets twinkled with midnight lanterns! And how mortifying to the stars to be outdone by such a grand illumination!
"And a mighty useful thing to have on a bit of a farm," says he ay, calling Sellanraa a bit of a farm, no more! "Where did you get hold of it?" "Up at the mine. Engineer, he gave me the thing for a present, he said." "The company's engineer?" says Geissler, as if he had not understood. And Geissler, was he to be outdone by an engineer on a copper mine?
Far across the mouth of the Bosphorus the minarets of Scutari came faintly into view, and on the Stamboul side the few lingering lamps which had outlasted the darkness, upon the lofty minarets, paled and lost their yellow color, and then ceased to shine, outdone in their turn by the rosy morning light.
Myriads of fruits in every stage of development and disintegration, haggled bits of meat, the hundred sights and sounds and smells one hurries past suggest that Panama may even have outdone Central America before Uncle Sam came with his garbage-cans and his switch. Further on, down at the old harbor, lingers a hint of the picturesqueness of Panama in pre-canal days.
She had never refused Him one gift He craved; withheld one sacrifice He asked; was He to be outdone in generosity? Oh, far from it! In presence of the magnificence of His gifts to her chosen soul, we have but to bow down as we bend before the sun when its ray dazzles us.
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