How To Use Outbrave In A Sentence
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I felt much moved that Will had faced his fears and outbraved them to come to help me, but this seemed no time for long speeches.
Wicked Will
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The pirates called a council, and decided to give them the slip, having "outbraved them," and done as much as honour called for.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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'I see,' said the genie, 'that you both outbrave me, but both of you shall know, by the treatment I give you, what I am capable of doing.'
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
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A man, or a woman for that matter, should have the courage to outbrave an oath when it hurts the innocent.
Hetty Wesley
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Methinks there should be that magnanimity in every Christian, that he should scorn to be outbraved by any, in point of spiritual fortitude; and to make that noble resolution that Nehemiah did, in chap. vi.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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But Jed was bound to outbrave me, and I was equally bound to outbrave him.
Chapter 13
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Nor was the government only, but also the glory of the English nation changed; distinction of orders confounded, the gentry outbraved, and the nobility, who voted the bishops out of their dignities in parliament, by the just judgment of God thrust out themselves, and brought under the scorn and imperious lash of a beggar on horseback;
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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For some time she endeavoured to outbrave me; neither the fiddler nor she desisted; but at last she gave over, and the musician laid aside his instrument. . .
A Renegade History of the United States
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For some time she endeavoured to outbrave me; neither the fiddler nor she desisted; but at last she gave over, and the musician laid aside his instrument. . .
A Renegade History of the United States
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Only shame to be outbraved by his younger companion and pupil made him nod and mutter his assent.
Black Jack
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Where Basrig ye outbraved, and Halden sword to sword.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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Not that we need suppose him to have made it a point of honour to outbrave the new law in general by continuing to publish without a licence; but because, in this particular case, he had no choice but to do so, and did not mind doing so.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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Though, let them affirm it never so much in words, there are not wanting arguments to persuade us, that their mouth belies their heart; and that they have an inward, invincible sense of what they outwardly renounce, holding them under the iron bands of a conviction not to be stifled or outbraved, or hectored out of their conscience; as shall be discoursed of afterwards.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
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I see," said the genie, "that you both outbrave me, but both of you shall know by my treatment of you of what I am capable.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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Hernan Perez del Pulgar, surnamed "He of the exploits," was present, and resolved not to be outbraved by this daring infidel.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
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He outbraved the enemy
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It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to outbrave the blustering Boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field, was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
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And there can be no more infallible evidence of a miscarriage in such a condition, than when pride, or passion, or prejudice, or any corrupt affection, can either outbrave or stifle that compliance with a just reproof which conscience will assuredly tender, Rom. ii.
The Sermons of John Owen
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What a deal of money did Henry VIII. and Francis I. king of France, spend at that [1719] famous interview? and how many vain courtiers, seeking each to outbrave other, spent themselves, their livelihood and fortunes, and died beggars?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Supposing by the intercession of great friends he has outbraved justice, and triumphed over the law by a full acquitment, 62.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
