1 I will suffer no competitor near the throne; I shall exact an undivided homage: his devotions shall not be shared between me and the shape he sees in his mirror.
2 'So my son took, of his own will, and on no compulsion, to the course in which he can always, when it is his pleasure, outstrip every competitor,' she pursued.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME 3 Roused to nervous desire to regain her position she turned on Dr. Terry Gould, the young and pool-playing competitor of her husband.
4 And letting fly his arrow with a little more precaution than before, it lighted right upon that of his competitor, which it split to shivers.
5 She was not the only one who had seen the opportunities for making money out of lumber, but she did not fear her competitors.
6 But when ladylike airs failed to get results she was coldly businesslike and willingly undersold her competitors at a loss to herself if it would bring her a new customer.
7 The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, as the office-seekers in the political parties seek to please and deceive the people.
8 More than thirty yeomen at first presented themselves as competitors, several of whom were rangers and under-keepers in the royal forests of Needwood and Charnwood.
9 The diminished list of competitors for silvan fame still amounted to eight.
10 Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.
11 It is true that there was not quite fair play between them and their competitors in trade.