you can't tell what it's like unless you've seen it, and if ever you should have a fancy to see it, you come out to Salisbury Plain, to my little place on the Burra-Burra; for I like the look of you, young man; you're a gentleman, though I've an idea you're down on your luckI ain't so drunk that I can't see through a man's eyes, and there's trouble in yours; been outrunning the constable, eh?

One of the creatures, having outrun its companions, had almost overtaken me.

Some silly talk which had been going round the country about the king of the foxesa sort of demon fox, so fast that it could outrun any pack, and so fierce that they could do nothing with it if they overtook itsuddenly came back into his mind, and it did not seem so laughable now in the dim fir-wood as it had done when the story had been told over the wine and cigars.

See ante, i. 453, where he said:'Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull,' &c.; and iii. 84, note 2, where he said:'I should have thought Mund Burke would have had more sense;' see also Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 216, where he said:'Derry [Derrick] may do very well while he can outrun his character; but the moment that his character gets up with him he is gone.'

Their liberality seemed to have outrun all prudence.

The balance of his command escaped by outrunning their pursuers and all reached the valley in safety.

In doing this, conclusions must, as a rule, be stated with few of the facts upon which they rest, for to give more than the plainest of these would be to far outrun the possible limits of space, and would furthermore lead into technical details which to most readers are obscure and wearisome.

And this land, situated in the very outskirts of the metropolis, continues to be utterly neglected, if not entirely overlooked, at a moment when the whole kingdom resounds with the groans of those who argue that the population of this country has outrun the means of subsisting them.

Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, whose intellect had in other respects outrun his age, and whose shrewd good sense should have emancipated him from so gross an abuse of reason, never undertook any measure of importance without consulting the astrologers.

He could, it was believed, outrun the deer; out-eat and out-drink everyone at the banquet; strike down flying game unerringly; tame the wildest steed, and ride 120 miles in a day.

For Imagination in a Poet, is a faculty so wild and lawless, that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the Judgement.

So much the fury still outran the wit, The pleasure missed her, and the scandal hit.

When a bear was thin he could always outrun the hounds; if he was fat he would get hot and tired enough to climb a tree or mad enough to stop and fight the dogs.

There's only one animal on th' Kiowa range that can outrun that Vermejo horse.

We maybe mistaken, but we think the Rev. gentleman's zeal outruns his discretion.

Of course, there are natures whose perceptiveness outruns their power of expressionand these are, as a rule, the dissatisfied, unhappy temperaments that one encounters; there are others whose power of expression outruns their perceptiveness, and these are facile, fluent, empty, agreeable writers.

As a matter of fact, the seasons themselves decided his conduct in these difficulties; for in cold weather, or times of scarcity, his charity outran his desire for books; whereas, in the warm weather, and when there was plenty, and no pitiful starved faces gathered about his door, he bought books, instead of searching for the few who were still in need.

"He'd outrun any dogs.

Individual actors, with respect to the master claim of humanity, are, for the most part, not unlike that fleet hound which, enticed by a tempting prospect of meat, outran a locomotive engine all the way from Lowell to Boston, and won a handsome wager for his owner, while intent only on a dinner for himself.

But in these decrees the advocates of violence had for the moment gone too farthey had outrun the feelings of the nation.

"You seem to be anxious to outrun that feller," he said at last.

Could a mere girl outrun such fine fellows as they?

Though despatch be the soul of business, yet he who outruns his own feet comes to the ground, and makes no despatch,unless it be of himself.

Andy could easily outrun the fugitive, but this was not his policy for the present.

Each wishes to outrun the future and to afford himself at least an illusion of the triumph of his party.