2253 examples of overtake in sentences

Surely little Jenny will not speed so swiftly from the earth she loved but that you shall overtake her.

" He went on to say "A tremendous revolution may overtake us, originating in a free Press.

He knew Thor had gone in that direction, and if little Muskwa possessed a mind and a soul they were filled with but one desire nowto overtake his big friend and protector.

The whole merit of the course is when the hounds can overtake the wolf and pin him to the ground, so that the keepers can secure him alive.

"'What news?' "'Why, that Washington is on the retreat, and that the British army is pursuing him, and likely to overtake him.' "'Ah!

For some distance, their road would be the same as that about to be taken by the monarch and his attendants, amongst whom it was not improbable Rochester might be numbered; and the possibility that the earl might overtake them and discover Amabel filled him with uneasiness.

Frank hoped they would be able to overtake the fugitive, for if one of the party escaped he would report to the sophs, who were bound to make a big hustle to rescue their captured comrades.

" "But should it, there would be an investigation, and expulsion and disgrace, if nothing worse, would overtake us.

The aim which yesterday filled your whole gymnastic horizon you overtake and pass as a boat passes a buoy: until passed, it was a goal; when passed, a mere speck in the horizon.

He recalled that the abduction of the young wife took place quite late in the afternoon; and, as she must be an unwilling captive of course, she would know enough to hinder the progress of the man so as to afford her friends a chance to overtake them.

Since I had made up my mind to overtake her first or last, it might as well have been a comfortable place like this, where there was good cooking and good music and all the comforts which I may or may not have needed, but which I was certainly beginning to desire.

He could never overtake her.

"I shall soon overtake you, and then, Inshallah (please God), you will not fare so ill as you imagine.

To suppress domestic violence and to repel foreign invasion, should these calamities overtake us, we must rely in the first instance upon the great body of the community whose will has instituted and whose power must support the Government.

But at the top the sward was pleasantit was the sward of the terrace of the old house; and lying at length, fearful lest sleep might overtake him, he looked across the lake.

Budd, too, don't want to break his neck trying to overtake me.

Mont Sterry was safe beyond pursuit, for there was no horse in the company that could overtake him.

"They may overtake him," thought the young man as he turned to enter the house, "but it will not be right away.

No one can overtake you, and I don't think it will be suspected who you are.

" Mrs. Fuller pressed her hand affectionately, and commending her to the Great Spirit, she departed to overtake her companions.

A few seconds sufficed to enable Grim to overtake the woman, who fell on her knees the instant she felt the sailor's heavy hand on her shoulder.

The latter, indeed, he did not overtake; for Oroeses, after the repulse by Celer, had fled on being informed of the failures of the rest; many of the Albanians, however, he overwhelmed near the crossing of the Cyrnus and killed.

[-12-]Caesar now was anxious to join issue with him before he sailed away, to fight it out with him in Italy, and to overtake him while he was still at Brundusium; for since there were not sufficient boats for them, Pompey had sent forward the consuls and others, fearing that they might begin some rebellion if they stayed on the spot.

could they never, never hit it right? "When other lips and other hearts Their tale of love shall tell" and it was she who, as they crossed Calliope street, first espied the rear of the procession, in column of fours again, it was she who flashed tears of joy as they whirled into Erato street to overtake the van and she was first to alight at the station.

They tell me that it was a wise thing, directed by God, that I should drop the letter in which he gave me directions how to meet him, that my sister-in-law should find it, and that my brother should overtake me at the train, and prevent my going.

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