Overtook

Examples

• But before extinction overtook them, even the Neanderthalers learnt much and went far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He overtook them too late. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The engaging young Barnacle was the first arrival; but Bar overtook him on the staircase. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I--I knew nothing of that; I was going to inquire the truth of the story when you overtook me. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The horsemen, therefore, soon overtook them on the road. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I rapidly overtook it, and then, keeping at a discreet distance of a hundred yards or so, I followed its lights until we were clear of the town. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Confederate fleet overtook her just above Grand Gulf, and attacked her after dark on the 24th of February. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Another storm overtook him, and several days more were lost before the army and navy were both ready at the same time to co-operate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had about reached the last of the many chambers and corridors which led to the gardens when an officer overtook us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• My father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Two men overtook me in a chaise. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She was coming home when her father overtook her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We followed up our victory until night overtook us about two miles from Port Gibson; then the troops went into bivouac for the night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He overtook her in a few quick strides, and laid an entreating hand on her arm. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He hastened after and overtook her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The great war, unluckily for them, overtook them in the very crisis of this effort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had got down from the coach, and was walking a little beyond the turning from the toll-house, and I overtook him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Greg