o'ertake

• “Oh! let me, like a courser at its speed, or a votary of Bacchus, approach the tomb! for there is something wild about this fellow's looks, who is eager to o'ertake me.”

  Helen

• “Likewise, it is ordained, Orestes, that thou shalt wed Hermione, at whose neck thou art pointing thy sword; Neoptolemus shall never marry her, though he thinks he will; for his death is fated to o'ertake him by a”

  Orestes

• “Unhappy house! what two-fold sorrow doth o'ertake its halls, through heaven's ordinance!”

  Hippolytus

• “Thou think'st them to o'ertake, Thou thinkest to overtake them, for all thou'rt fettered fast; while thou bearest”

  The Life of Sir Richard Burton

• “In their wrath they o'ertake us; the prow is deep-dark”

  The Suppliants

• “The difficulties in the double rhymes he overcomes by the device of inflectional endings and repetition of pronouns which although at first moderately satisfactory must eventually become monotonous: declining hasteth tired shining divesteth expired [183] sing ye make me send you bring ye o'ertake me defend you.”

  Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody

• “Followed his flying steps, and thought each day to o'ertake him.”

  Elson Grammar School Literature v4

• “If sorrow o'ertake thee -- then be not faint-hearted;”

  The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses

• “Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins,”

  English Literature for Boys and Girls

• “When that the spouse of Kriemhild/did wish him to o'ertake.”

  The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original

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