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OVERTOOK

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overtook past de la overtake.

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This morning I had hardly started when the doctor in his carriage overtook me.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Striding through the scattered knots of people who lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the little man and touched him upon the shoulder.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She sprang to the door to run away; but on the steps King Grisly-beard overtook her, and brought her back and said, Fear me not!

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Then, with a quick low whine, Wolf sprang after him, overtook him, caught his hand between his teeth with reluctant tenderness, and strove gently to make him pause.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Bidding adieu to landlord and to champion, therefore, he set off at a gallop, and soon overtook the two archers.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had gone half a mile, perhaps, when the Champion overtook us, and I could not but observe that the bundle was no longer under his arm.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He paused. The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I was saying so to Emily and Sophia when you overtook us.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Mary sat down for a moment, but it would not do; she was sure Louisa had found a better seat somewhere else, and she would go on till she overtook her.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

When he overtook White Fang, he reached down and by the nape of the neck lifted him clear of the water.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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