So Tip called the Gump's attention to them and bade the creature try to overtake the Witch and the Sorceress.
Some time I will surely overtake them," he reflected; "for the road will end at the gates of the Emerald City, and they can go no further than that.
The Alderman made good footing after him to overtake him and said unto him, Sir, you said that you would pay me my money within seven weekes, or else any time after that we did meet together.
Retribution will overtake the fellows one of these days.
It will prolong the time till our visitors can overtake us, and will give us a better chance of having a breeze spring up.
So saying, he set off to overtake the porter, who was wheeling away his traps.
But do not enter the gates, for the negroes will overtake you at that point.
Jacket and the other loot-laden soldiers had been sent on ahead, together with those troopers who were sharing mounts with the rescued prisoners; they were now waiting perhaps two miles from town for their companions to overtake them.
Therefore, if your messengers find the wood deserted, they have simply to follow the road, and they will either overtake us, or find us with Cathelineau.
He managed, however, to burst through the Vendeans, and to overtake his flying infantry.
It was a wonder to me that we did not come upon any stragglers from the force we were pursuing; but we did not overtake any; neither did we come upon a broken-down horse.
Till I overtake them," said my father, rather coldly.
He said a few moments before it had marched past the house, following the road by which General Hurlbut had gone, and I told him to run, overtake it, and bring it back.
I asked him what he was doing there, and he answered that he was "taking a rest;" this was manifest and I started him in a hurry, to overtake his command.
By his orders, we counter-marched, recrossed the swamp, and hurried forward to overtake Stuart, marching for Fort Hindman.
It is not, however, so sure that this mode of carrying on business would overtake ruin speedily.
Does not the death of a parent often overtake young people thus in the fulness of life, in the wild enjoyment of an orgy?
Uncle Lazare, who could not overtake me, shook his walking stick in despair.
True, and Albany can answer for himself," said the duke; "we are travelling with all speed to overtake the earl of Douglas and his friends.
It was important to overtake the schooner before she got higher up, and perhaps hidden away in some narrow creek where it might be no easy matter to find her.
Adair believed that the only chance of saving his old companions' lives was to overtake her.
They had therefore little apprehension that they wouldovertake them.
They felt for each other as brothers, and each trembled for the fate which might overtake his friend.
Rely upon it, that, if they do not soon sneak away into their graves, a day of retributive justice will most assuredly overtake them.
The evils, if any, which are to result from its abolition, cannot, by any manner of means, be half as great as the evils which are certain to overtake us in case of its continuance.
If twenty years be allowed New York as her future period of duplication, she would overtake London by the end of fifty years; London may then have five millions; New-York will almost certainly have more than that number.
At the same rate of increase carried forward, it would overtake New-York within twenty years.
If six years be allowed for each future duplication, Chicago would overtake New-York in thirty-three years.
If Jack and Lord Hastings can just keep them in sight until I overtake them, I'll promise not to be fooled again.
Still the pursuers gained; but it became apparent now that they could not hope to overtake their quarry before he reached shore.
At Tain, the first stage, we walked on, leaving the coach to overtake us.
One cannot but feel glad at the deep mortification and disappointment which will overtake the Republicans and Socialists, the Mazzinis, Garibaldis, Kossuths, et hoc genus omne, at a pacification so ruinous to all their hopes and designs.
She only felt, at that unexpected moment, that she loved Claire very much, and would always stay her stanch friend, no matter what bitter ill might overtake her.
Who could say what financial disaster might overtake him, if he should now aspire to three oyster-stews after three seats at the theatre?
His leaps down hill were terrific, and the dogs, however much they tried, could not overtake him; and so Keesa always gained the day, and although he had many exciting hunts he was never caught.
The lion was lazy, as usual, and, thinking he could easily overtake a giraffe, did not put forth his best speed.
With this additional power the boats began to slide through the water more rapidly, and Frobisher began to fear that, unless the pursuers were very quick indeed, they would fail to overtake them, even now.
Dolokhov said that he and his companion were trying to overtake their regiment, and addressing the company in general asked whether they knew anything of the 6th Regiment.
And how am I to find the nearest way to overtakemy regiment, which must by now be getting near the Rogozhski gate?
Again Erza and Milka were abreast, running like a pair of carriage horses, and began to overtake the hare, but it was easier for the hare to run on the balk and the borzois did not overtake him so quickly.
The absurd answer (that Achilles could never overtake the tortoise) resulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discontinuous elements, whereas the motion both of Achilles and of the tortoise was continuous.
Pierre got up and, having told them to harness and overtake him, went on foot through the town.
Swaying his head and smiling as if amused at himself, the officer ran almost at a trot through the deserted streets toward the Yauza bridge to overtake his regiment.
On the way he came upon a bush, his gallant horse cleared it, and almost before he had righted himself in his saddle he saw that he would immediately overtake the enemy he had selected.
Mr. McMurtrie began to dictate, the stenographer's pencil flying over the paper as he sought to overtake the rapid utterance of his chief.
He had almost completed it, and he could easily hurry after the slow-moving caravan, and overtake it in a day or two.
As a matter of fact, European vessels no longer ran the same risks as of old, the Malays having learnt by experience that sooner or later retribution was bound to overtake them; but it was a different matter with Chinese junks.
The prostrate natives lay for some time in a paralysis of fear; but finding that they were unhurt, and that the monster had withdrawn from them, they picked themselves up, and ran to overtake their friends, leaving the space clear.
Smith shouted to him to stop, but in vain; whereupon he picked up his heels and ran to overtake the carriage.
Morgan saw her in the Headlight office, where she worked late that night to overtake her accumulated affairs, her pretty head bent over a litter of proofs.
She playfully broke away from him, dancing through the hall, and challenging her brother to pursue and overtake her.
You will not shoot yourself, count, for the enemy will not overtake us.
Railway communication was perfected, and the permanent bridge was repaired, to provide against accident, which in case of a flood might overtake the temporary one.
There has been very little heretofore," was the reply, "but ere long a great trouble willovertake the good people of the African Utopia.
The noise of the falling water was so great that the thud of the horse's hoofs could not be heard; and they expected to overtake Clancy in very short order.
