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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
outyell .
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Even Robin Wright was carried off his legs for the moment, and, modest though he was, broke in at the chorus with such effect -- his voice being shrill and clear -- that, he unintentionally outyelled all the rest, and would have fled in consternation from the saloon if he had not been caught and forcibly detained by the sporting electrician, who demanded what right he had to raise his steam-whistle in that fashion.
The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859
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