"Emulously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... busy hands, which were emulously employed in plundering the fallen knight, whose arms and accoutrements were of a magnificence befitting his quality, instantly forbore the occupation, and half the number of voices exculpated themselves, by laying the blame on the Skyeman, as they ...
— A Legend of Montrose • Sir Walter Scott
... active and energetic of all nations, previous to its Revolution, upon that subject. I am convinced that the foreign speculators in France, under the old government, were twenty to one of the same description then or now in England; and few of that description there were who did not emulously set forward the Revolution. The whole official system, particularly in the diplomatic part, the regulars, the irregulars, down to the clerks in office, (a corps without all comparison more numerous than the same amongst us,) cooeperated in it. All the intriguers in ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
