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Typically, when her giant flowers were first exhibited in 1925 in the Seven Americans show, reviewer Edmund Wilson stated in the New Republic that she had outblazed the work of the men around her.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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Amidst the subdued elegance around her, she suddenly outblazed a great blue star and multitudinously lacy nebula which dominated the viewscreen.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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Marquis of STROKEFOGIES appeared in a blaze of triumph that outblazed even the Berlin "Peace with Honour" business, and CODLINGSBY JUNIOR
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 Various
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Those women seemed to her so dazzling, so wondrously, so superhumanly beautiful; they seemed like some of those new dahlia flowers, rose and purple and gold, that outblazed the sun on the south border of her little garden, and blanched all the soft color out of the homely roses, and pimpernels, and sweet-williams, and double-stocks, that had bloomed there ever since the days of Waterloo.
Bebee 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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He remembers how the light outblazed even the blinding brilliance of a Syrian noontide.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Stokepogis, our ambassador's lady, appeared in a suite of diamonds which outblazed even the Romanoff jewels, and Rafael Mendoza obtained the little caique.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Seraskier; by bribing Colonel de St. Cornichon, the French envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped — the menaced empire of the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness of Stokepogis, our ambassador’s lady, appeared in a suite of diamonds which outblazed even the Romanoff jewels, and Rafael Mendoza obtained the little caique.
Burlesques 2006
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Seraskier; by bribing Colonel de St. Cornichon, the French envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped — the menaced empire of the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness of Stokepogis, our ambassador’s lady, appeared in a suite of diamonds which outblazed even the Romanoff jewels, and Rafael Mendoza obtained the little caique.
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