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Leopard face the larger Dutch man-of-war Waakzaamheid in the furious waters off the Cape of Good Hope; Aubrey is outgunned and outsped by a ship determined to sink him.

Fury and Terror On the High Seas Geoffrey Wolff 2011

He outsped even the alarm which his impetuosity only had excited, and passed the quarter of his own gallant troops of Normandy, Poitou, Gascony, and Anjou before the disturbance had reached them, although the noise accompanying the German revel had induced many of the soldiery to get on foot to listen.

The Talisman 2008

At that instant, he even felt as if he could have outsped the arrow in its flight and knocked Merrih out of the way himself.

Darkness of the Light David_Peter 2007

It was he who outsped the gale as he brought warning and summons, he who got Greutung and Taifal and Amaling help, he who overawed the haughty till they worked side by side as he ordered.

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

'We have seen, O citizens, Diomede in his Argive camp, and outsped our way and passed all its dangers, and touched the hand whereunder the land of Ilium fell.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

The great news of his voyage and discovery had outsped him, and the people of Barcelona received him with every mark of respect and honour.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

The anecdotes I have repeated, indicate that Roosevelt must often have outsped his opponent in drawing.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

Mounted on their nimble and hardy ponies, the Avars dashed into Sarras land two hundred strong, and tarried neither to slay nor spoil, but outsped the fleet feet or rumour, till in the grey glimmer of cock-crow they sighted the towers of Sarras city.

A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909

I believed that I was in time to warn him of the threatening danger, that I had outsped the warrant, that I had outrun the redoubtable Lukens, and in the luxury of that thought my overtaxed strength ebbed away and I sank down on a stump, hot and panting.

David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903

The novelist has outsped the poet in absorbing a new ideality conditioned by the advance of science; again, he has cleverly adjusted his work to the facilities and drawbacks of modern journalism.

0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 Edmund Clarence Stedman 1900