outbidden

I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more.

Bleak House 2007

"It is unfortunate that your resources, in the recent markets, have become so limited, or you might have outbidden me," said the Lady Florence.

Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

He rose to scrutinize her closely, and must have been satisfied, for the price he offered was a good one, and he offered it with contemptuous assurance that he would not be outbidden.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

On the one hand did he permit himself to be outbidden his master might visit upon him his disappointment.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

And now Tsamanni not only found himself outbidden, but he had reached the outrageous limit appointed by Asad.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

He had hung there somewhere in the crowd waiting until all competitors but one should have been outbidden, and now he stepped forth to buy her for his own -- his slave!

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

"But it seems that she caught thy fancy, and the fool suffered himself to be outbidden."

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

He would let himself be outbidden where Keith would have carried all before him by a superb if reckless persistence.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

So long as the public will pay for gross personalities, obscenity, and slang, decent journals will be outbidden in the market.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

When Phillips heard that Johnson had outbidden him, he described the offer as 'monstrous,' and that it was

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891