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  • SPINHANDSPUN is delighted to announce the arrival of a new set of polymer hex buttons, designed, crafted, and out-done by Perishables, an artist who creates her own shipping packages, and uses nature retreats for inspiration.

    Latest Edition: Buttons by Perishables! 2009

  • You should've taken a page from your President and just out-thought, out-worked, and just basically out-done them across the board.

    Steele says he has 'slimmer margin' for error 2010

  • Avatar was already out-done visually, but unfortunately, low-foreheads in the worldwide audience beg to differ.

    James Cameron Options Story About Survivors of Hiroshima « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • A black candidate has out-won, out-earned, and out-done the "inevitable" white candidate on every single measure.

    AP/Ipsos: Hillary Performing Better Than Obama Against McCain 2009

  • My dear whether it is that a grown man as clever as the Major cannot give half his heart and mind to anything — even a plaything — but must get into right down earnest with it, whether it is so or whether it is not so I do not undertake to say, but Jemmy is far out-done by the serious and believing ways of the Major in the management of the United

    Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 2007

  • My dear whether it is that a grown man as clever as the Major cannot give half his heart and mind to anything — even a plaything — but must get into right down earnest with it, whether it is so or whether it is not so I do not undertake to say, but Jemmy is far out-done by the serious and believing ways of the Major in the management of the United

    Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 2007

  • I have done as much for all here: and, I hope, to no bad effect: for I shall now tell them, by Mrs. Jervis, if there be occasion, that I hope they will not let me be out-done in Bedfordshire, by Mrs. Jewkes in Lincolnshire; but that the servants of both houses may do credit to the best of masters.

    Pamela 2006

  • * Or possibly Terry has out-done himself this time.

    Reader reviews of A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett. 2004

  • Not to be out-done by the army, the navy wanted to claim credit first.

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • The widow gave her many good qualities; but said, that she had one great defect; which was, that she could not write, nor read writing; that part of her education having been neglected when she was young; but for discretion, fidelity, obligingness, she was not to be out-done by any body.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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