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  • verb Past participle of outride

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Examples

  • The men with the lanterns had now fallen into the rear, or rather, the equestrians of the rescue-party had outridden the pedestrians.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • No attendant was within sight; indeed, it was often a nice strain of flattery to permit the Sovereign to suppose he had outridden and distanced all the rest of the chase.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Agesilaus meanwhile, considering that the horse had outridden the foot, but that he himself had the whole body of his own army entire, made haste to engage them.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • He also saw Manu Bappoo who had outridden the British pursuit and now gestured to Dodd from the gate-tower's turret.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

  • He had far outridden them, and was alone in the undulating uplands, when he saw the first traces of the assault which had broken the empress's army.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • He had far outridden them, and was alone in the undulating uplands, when he saw the first traces of the assault which had broken the empress's army.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • Still more horsemen had appeared in the gateway, several of Domville's outridden retinue, and among them Simon and Guy, by the look of their faces by no means eager to be noticed or take any part in this encounter.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • Still more horsemen had appeared in the gateway, several of Domville's outridden retinue, and among them Simon and Guy, by the look of their faces by no means eager to be noticed or take any part in this encounter.

    The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

  • In one race he was quite clearly outridden in a tight finish by the champion jockey, but all he said about that was that he would improve, he supposed, with practice.

    Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

  • The effect of this speech, as the orator, pale, exhausted, shattered, unstrung, with nerves like the torn cordage of a ship that has outridden the tempest, descended from the tribune, baffles all description.

    Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

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