He had instinctively discounted the newspaper fame showered so freely upon him on his immediate arrival in England; he was humorously conscious that he owed it in a great measure to the absence of any other competing lion of the moment.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He alludes here to the prevailing custom of several dramatic writers competing for a prize.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
While waiting till it should be over and he could speak to the auctioneer, he amused himself watching the competing groups as well as those-far the greater number-who were only there to look on; for in a colonial town a public sale of whatever kind draws a crowd of loungers of every description as surely as a store-cupboard draws flies in hot weather.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford