Darting impetuously from his lair, the cub easily out-distanced the dog, and quickly found refuge in an adjoining thicket, where he remained in safety during the rest of the day.
And now that she discovered Ida Palliser's near relationship to a baronet of old family, owner of a fine property within thirty miles of Kingthorpe, Urania began to feel that she must needs be distanced in the race.
She who had made up her mind to go through life as a superior being, to be always on the top rung of the social ladder, found herself easily distanced by the penniless pupil-teacher.
Scorched and suffering from the flames though he was, he strained every muscle to keep ahead of the yelping pack, and soon completelydistanced them; still, their horrid yelps told me that they were continuing the pursuit.
They distanced him in classics, once his strongest point.
Cardew wrote of his proficiency in the classics as exceeding that of most of his school-fellows, but he was too lively and too careless to apply himself as some did who distanced him.
He surprised the colonel's son curled up in a box beneath a Jack-o'-lantern, and distanced him to the wagon.
The engine had distanced it, yet the blue mare did not slacken.
The sound of the green feet and the running of overhead laughter, as they distanced him in front, came nearer and nearer behind him from across the hall.
I, divided then perhaps by all the stretch of the trillion-distanced astral gulf?
She was after me, but being taken by surprise, I suppose, was distanced a little at first.
Mr. Randolph has often been heard to say that it distanced competition--leaving all associates and opponents far behind, and carrying the case.
He was a great athlete, hunter and soldier, and was so favoured by his mother on that account that he distanced his brethren in the race for supremacy.
This was successfully accomplished, for though the pursuit continued for several hours, Faris and his three followers rapidly out-distanced their pursuers, and during the night made good their escape.
Eugene is a high-bred, showy animal, with regular points and paces, and is not to be easily distanced on the great course of fashion.
Irene Stanwood has not distanced her so immensely, after all.
Gertrude does not share in this general worship; she is too listless, and there is a feeling of being distanced so very far that it is uncomfortable.
When he had distanced them all, he stopped to tear up his waistcoat, and wrap his feet, naked and bleeding from the sharp stones which had cut them in his wild flight, and then hurried on toward the Ohio.
The savages endeavored to cut him off, but he distanced all except one, who followed him only three yards away.
Then the driver whipped his horses forward, and the reporters were distanced for the time being.
In another instant Halstead had distanced them, speeding the car eastward down the country road.
People were curious to see the lucky man who had distanced all titled competitors, and whom fate had so suddenly placed on life's pinnacle, in that he had been chosen as the future lord of millions.
But the work of the judges was facilitated by the fact that one man so far distanced the others that there could be absolute unanimity in making the award.
This would allow the champion automobile a lead of over seventeen feet each second; and at the end of a mile the locomotive would be distanced by 1040 feet.
But in 1908 two more turbine ships, the Lusitania and Mauretania began making regular transatlantic voyages, and quickly distanced all competitors.
Many who had tried the first time dropped out, having been distanced so greatly by the leaders.
Tootsie distanced them to the far end of the room.
Putting forth all her strength at first, she easily distanced most of the eighteen.
As they had no other encumbrances than their muskets, they soon distanced us.
Millers and weavers now left off their wrangling, and joined together in pursuit, but in vain; the fellow soon distanced them all, and was lost to sight in the wood.
Ramin, with his ox-head, was distanced by the wild men of Pomerania, as they ran upon the ice over the Haff!
At any rate, my speed then must have out-distanced anyone.
The couple were married; the two properties were afterwards conjoined; and the sportsman of Outfieldhaugh distanced all his competitors.
Again was the rusty machinery of his intellect set in motion, and the result was a device that distanced the former experiments, as well for its ingenuity as its chance of success.
The little skill of the Greek soon distanced the great skill of the Egyptians.
The reports in the newspapers of the activities of others, especially of scientists in Europe, led Morse to decide that he must at once take steps legally to protect himself if he did not wish to be distanced in the race.
There can be no reasonable doubt that, had he received this commission, he would have deferred the perfecting of his telegraphic device until others had so far distanced him in the race that he could never have overtaken them.
After a sanguinary action of two hours the English nag was cut in pieces, distancedand surrendered at discretion.
So we set off, after a few minutes' rest above the lovely gorge, in an easy stroll after the now distanced diligence, nothing suspecting, and prepared to enjoy our mile and a half walk.
We walked on so fast that we distanced our companions, who seemed astonished at the energy of Englishwomen, and stopped to remark upon it to some friendly road-menders a little further on.
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