For had it been the rule for a hundred tragedies tocompete together, the performance would have been regulated by the water-clock,--as indeed we are told was formerly done.

The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven citiescompete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

This new world has already enriched the lives of MILLIONS of Americans who are able tocompete and win in it.

Now, however, I am worn out by labour and sorrow, for I have gone through much both on the field of battle and by the waves of the weary sea; still, in spite of all this I willcompete, for your taunts have stung me to the quick."

Why do you take me,' said Mr Sampson, 'to the glittering halls with which I can nevercompete, and then taunt me with my moderate salary?

And I didn't; for who could hope tocompete with the sun, who was making the whole dewy world shake with laughter at his brilliancy, or with the birds, any one of whom was a poet at least equal to Herrick?

This was reported to the man who declared he wouldcompete, 'but,' he said, 'I shall let my servant run for me.'

"But," said the doctor, "are you not aware that my journey is tocompete with the success of the expeditions now on foot?

I've had tocompete with some of the sharpest wits going to get my pile.

Any one who owned a cart with flanged wheels could drive it on the rails andcompete with the locomotives.

That climate acts in main part indirectly by favouring other species, we may clearly see in the prodigious number of plants in our gardens which can perfectly well endure our climate, but which never become naturalised, for they cannotcompete with our native plants, nor resist destruction by our native animals.

He wished the boys and girls of the two upper classes tocompete; the award to be made to the writers of the two best essays.