So, I would like to win in the game of love; but to win with honor, one must have a worthy rival.

Crafty as his name, this man was a brilliant politician, who could be called a worthy rival to Pitt.

The stag is a worthy rival and a lord of his kind.

But to love Olivia was more important even than to snatch contracts from his worthy rivals in business.

An abattoir until 1989, it is a worthy rival to Tate Modern.

But in Fox, Rankin gives us a worthy rival to them all.

I will therefore, sir, dear as you are to me, give up your person to the happier, to my worthier rival.

"Surely it has a worthy rival in a hay or wheat field on a bright windy day."

Rafael Nadal has emerged from the clay dust as a worthy rival on at least one surface.

If they are worthy rivals to each other, they also seem to make effective partners-but only on a temporary basis.