She emulously tried to outdo her older sister.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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

"All have a quarter of the Heavens to which they turn them; but wherever ye be, hasten emulously after good.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference

I bid leave the harbour and sit down at the thwarts; emulously my comrades strike the water, and sweep through the seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

It was formerly said that when a stranger appeared, the inhabitants emulously set to work to take him in, not however in the flattering and hospitable sense of the words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

England will one day emulously display in behalf of your.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock] Reference

Three minstrels emulously stepped forward with voice and harp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference

Sovereigns and subjects alike emulously bowed the neck under my sceptre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

Adriatic all the ports of the continent emulously seconded the creative thought of the emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference

England; and few of that description there were who did not emulously set forward the Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference

Many youths -- all the youths there -- cried "Zuleika!" and leapt emulously headlong into the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference

This proposal was carried by acclamation, and the noble example followed emulously by all the people.    From Wordnik.com.  ["He That Believeth Shall Not Make Haste." A Sermon Preached on the First of January, 1865, in St. Paul's Church, Richmond.] Reference

Every tongue seemed now unloosed, each as if emulously descanting on the injuries of the place he represented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852] Reference

It then found itself compelled to new efforts, in order to maintain its place among the scientific institutions, which have emulously risen in every branch of human knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference

Looms were there, though not in present use, but three wheels whirred emulously, and the finest and swiftest thread of the three ran between the fingers of the house-mistress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Were-Wolf] Reference

Everyone eschewed the pork and bid emulously for mutton, roast or boiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brother Copas] Reference

The spirit of improvement, order and harmony, which reigns in this little community, emulously engaged in the noble work of cultivating the human mind, is most commendable. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference

They emulously courted his alliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

“Nor by me neither,” said Edward, emulously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

12. zealous -- emulously desirous. spiritual gifts -- literally, "spirits"; that is, emanations from the one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Let me be one of the first to show that zeal and that confidence, which I trust all England will one day emulously display in behalf of your Majesty. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference

In 1790, 1791, and 1792, we found our fellow-citizens emulously striving after these gratuitous offices and even proud of the disinterestedness which the law prescribed. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference

How emulously they press on!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2] Reference

Proud Carthage emulously rears?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace] Reference

Lo! modern Critics emulously dare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace] Reference

Whom all the Muses emulously love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

Rush'd emulously through the flood, 210.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marmion] Reference

"Nor by me neither," said Edward, emulously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

Each emulously crowding round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watlington Hill; a poem] Reference

And, emulously, rapid in her raqe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference

Of flying Fortune, emulously panting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi] Reference

31. covet earnestly -- Greek, "emulously desire.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

"They both," said he, "kept hovering emulously round her.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference