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  • Despite her not inviolate past, what still abode in such a woman as Tess outvalued the freshness of her fellows.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • The certainty of one more day's affection, which she gained by silence, outvalued the hope of a perpetuity combined with the risk of all.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

  • He saw that life itself infinitely outvalued anything that could be feigned about it, but its richness seemed to corrupt him, and he had not the clear, ethical conscience which forced George Eliot to be realistic when probably her artistic prepossessions were romantic.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • He saw that life itself infinitely outvalued anything that could be feigned about it, but its richness seemed to corrupt him, and he had not the clear, ethical conscience which forced George Eliot to be realistic when probably her artistic prepossessions were romantic.

    My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878

  • What a wide distinction is here! and how far the slightest portion of the latter merit have outvalued the utmost degree of the former!

    Drowne's Wooden Image 1846

  • What a wide distinction is here! and how far the slightest portion of the latter merit have outvalued the utmost degree of the former!

    Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • After this he commanded that all that had belonged to him should be given to the lady, the which was not so little but that it outvalued ten thousand doubloons.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • The certainty of one more day’s affection, which she gained by silence, outvalued the hope of a perpetuity combined with the risk of all.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • In ancienter days, a few pages of good poetry outvalued a whole ell of the finest Genoa. "

    Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819

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