1647–8. Cotterell, Davila’s Hist. Fr. (1678), 2. Emulously getting possession of.
1677. Life, in Cleveland’s Gen. Poems. Many intermediate Stages … contended as emulously for his aboad, as the seven Cities for Homer’s Birth.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), II. II. 108. Men emulously strove, who should show the greatest gratitude towards the gods.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., III. xxiii. 566. Young women would get together, and merrily and emulously drive the spinning-wheel from sunrise till dark.
