Convinced that they had found the Cheyennes, their one desire was to overtake them.
They had wandered long over the sweet scented heathery hills, fresh and pure with the sparkling dew; when they heard loud shouts behind them, and saw Karl running to overtake them.
Although but a few minutes previously, the sky over head had been bright and clear, the storm which their guide had predicted, now threatened to overtake them, as the heavens became overcast with a dark canopy of clouds.
They cannot have gone far yet, and we shall be sure to overtake them, for what we lack in experience shall be more than made up by the strength of our arms and wills.
Then if you put off time talking with me you will not find it easy to overtake them; but I forgot: I suppose you count it an easy matter to overtake ordinary men?
She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them.
David inquired of Yahweh, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?
That would be of no use; for if what they saw was an Indian, there were, no doubt, others near; and they could easily track and overtake them.
It could be no advantage to us to overtake them on the march, but the contrary.
With full confidence in the men who had been sent forward, we rode on-- timing our pace, so as not to overtake them.
Though hastening on after the trackers, there were moments when I feared to overtake them--moments when I dreaded to hear their tale!
We resolved to goe day and night to the river of the meddows to overtake them.
Before brake of day we did what we could to overtake them, not without hazard, by reason the winds that blewed hard, which we could not perceive before.
We found out by their characters they weare no ennemys, but imagined that they weare Octanaks that went up into their countrey, which made us make hast to overtake them.
We made all the hast to overtake them, fearing the ennemy no more.
An empty cab was standing near me--I jumped into it directly--and told the man to overtake them.
I gave him some money, and got out immediately--determined to overtake them on foot.
In a few moments I recovered myself; and hastened to overtake them, before they arrived at a more frequented part of the neighbourhood.
Just as soon as I got over my scare I struck out in a gallop in the direction I thought the cattle had gone, but failed to overtake them.
As they had over a mile the start it wasn't an easy matter to overtake them.
We must try to overtake them," said I, without answering to the ebullition.
Well-mounted as were myself and companions, we were unable to overtake them.
My conjecture as to who the men were, increased my desire to overtake them.
The half-famished horses were too weak to overtake them on the frozen ground, but succeeded in driving them on the ice, where they slipped and fell, and were easily dispatched.
They professed to be on an amicable errand, to make peace with the Crows, and set off in all haste, before night, to overtake them.
After an unsatisfactory interview, Custer returned to his camp and started in pursuit of the Indians, but was unable to overtake them.
The swift Camanche steeds would soon overtake them; and then their horrible doom was fixed.
The Christian Mohawks of the Saut also appeared in the afternoon, and set out to pursue the enemy, but seem to have taken care not to overtake them; for the English Mohawks were their relatives, and they had no wish for their scalps.
Fifty young men from Albany joined them; and they followed the trail of the enemy, who, with the help of their horses, made such speed over the ice of Lake Champlain that it seemed impossible to overtake them.
Leaving York in ashes, the victors began their march homeward; while a body of men from Portsmouth followed on their trail, but soon lost it, and failed to overtake them.
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