Porler was completely outdone.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
"Oh, I can do that," said Peter Junior, not to be outdone by the stranger, and they all tried it.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
My dear, whether it is that a grown man as clever as the Major can not give half his heart and mind to anything-even a plaything-but must get into right down earnest with it, whether it is so or whether it is not so, I do not undertake to say; but Jemmy is far outdone by the serious and believing ways of the Major in the management of the United Grand Junction Lirriper and Jackman Great Norfolk Parlour Line, "for," says my Jemmy with the sparkling eyes when it was christened, "we must have a whole mouthful of name, Gran, or our dear old Public"-and there the young rogue kissed me-"won't stump up."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes