Adjective : boys emulous of their fathers.    From Dictionary.com. 

Until, in emulous murmur like your own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference

Thither his the votaress eunuchs with an emulous alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

    Thither his the votaress eunuchs with an emulous alacrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

Obj. 2: Further, a gloss on Ps. 36, "Be not emulous," says that hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

They were not emulous; each was content to be valued for what he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

An emulous industry was never more apparent than in this beautiful assembly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference

To first reach this, the winning-post, was evidently the emulous desire of each.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

No; this was the incantation reserved for souls athirst for fame, of virtue emulous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memorabilia] Reference

But her strong towers of defence and bulwarks are ye, emulous only to show your love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 52: Romans The Challoner Revision] Reference

The unwearied Dawnay set out sentries, who, emulous of their smart commanding officer, did a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

But by their offence, salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Most of what-it wants will be pressed upon it by emulous flatterers; the rest can be taken by force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

“Rakib” = spying, envious rival; “Ghábit” = one emulous without envy; and “Shámit” = a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Both of them left it wounded; and fought another also on Agdar Ness with an emulous thirst for glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

His companions on the present occasion were two ladies who seemed to be emulous in supplying his wants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Richmond] Reference

A true lady should be emulous to deserve that praise which the old poet Chaucer bestows on his Virginia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

This studied panegyric is nevertheless vigorous -- emulous as that of Longinus, of showing the author to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

There is some little pecuniary advantage attached to the office of monitor which makes them emulous to obtain it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Fry] Reference

We must therefore be cautious in looking for autobiographical hints in Shakespeare's portrayal of emulous siblings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

“Do you speak thus of a charge which the most noble of your countrymen feel themselves emulous to be admitted to?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

This year, Burton, emulous of fame as an original poet, published The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, A Lay of the Higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

If so, I say it is to be expected that these several matters, thanks to emulous ambition, will one and all be vigorously cultivated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiero] Reference

Captain Ewing, but she did so in a tamer manner than was usual with her, and she made no emulous attempts to dance down other couples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of all countries] Reference

It was in fact a sort of emulous struggle with himself, as it had been with another, how he might outdo his past actions by his future.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

“Summon him to our presence,” said the Lord Abbot; and with an obedient start the two attendant monks went off with emulous alertness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Every class, and creed, British and natives, Princes and people, Hindus and Mohammedans, vie with one another in noble and emulous rivalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference

There were afterwards many other "kids" emulous of Billy's renown, because of which, and their youthfulness, they were always the most dangerous of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

The burgomaster was emulous of so much generosity, and introduced a clause in the contract, settling his whole fortune on his son-in-law, in case of Maïna's death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

It seemed emulous from the beginning to be the first to catch the beams of morning, and, like the statue of Memnon, to respond to the golden touch by sounds of music.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference

We hurry far away in precipitate flight, with the suppliant who had so well merited rescue; and silently cut the cable, and bending forward sweep the sea with emulous oars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Our friend introduced my brother to him by name, and as "a boy emulous of seeing and following noble examples.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference

His brother Ned, a boy still more frail than himself, but emulous of his military ardour, goes in another regiment on the same expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference