Meaning of out-throw | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To throw outward.
2. To surpass in throwing.

Examples

“Engrossed in the rich, transparent beauty, pathos, and wisdom of Virgil, and the living rhetoric of Cicero's elaborate pleadings, as well as those other classic writers of antiquity, who, amidst outward barbarism, darkness, and dismayful ignorance, then brought to the student's lonely heart the solemnized civilization of the past, the light, fragrance, and magic of genius, and the hope of a time coming to him, too, when the world shall listen to his voice, and he may win admiration, or draw tears, by the out-throwing of his thoughts—Luther invigorated his spirit by his student toils, enriched his mind by the noble sayings, and graphic images, of orator and poet, and fed his ambition for the attainment of the marvellous faculty of power, which literary culture gives, by training his unworn and tender youth—"To scorn delights, and live laborious days;"”

“No man ever forgot his laugh—genial, hearty and out-thrown; and no friend who knew him well has failed to see the struggle to keep the mist back from the eyes when he was listening to or narrating a pathetic story .”

“Thy heart, it is a diamond And noble rays out-throweth.”

“My whole life I had been forced together with him at every family gathering, and he had used every opportunity to out-throw me, outrun me, out-eat me.”

“They had the same thing—running races and I outran everybody and out-threw everybody but one fellow, and he had the same name I had, John Wilson, a big, blond-haired kid from up in Alexandria, which is nine miles from here.”

“Don't try to out-throw the Jo. He wasn't drafted by the NFL for nothing.”

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