A few of the countess's party who were badly mounted were overtaken and slain, but the rest arrived safely at Auray, when the gates were shut in the face of their pursuers.
Besides, I would that before he dies he should know what hand has struck the blow, and that my vengeance, which he slighted and has twice escaped, has overtaken him at last.
The buffalo shivers; death has overtaken him, he cannot tell from whence; still he does not fall, but walks heavily forward, as if nothing had happened.
You would never have received credit for the philosophy you manifest if these financial misfortunes had not overtaken you.
It afforded a means of preservation similar to that employed by the American hunter, who endeavors to surround himself with a belt of wasted land, when overtaken by a conflagration in the prairies.
The governor hesitated to begin the action when they must so soon be overtaken by night.
It was nine o'clock when the battle ceased, though the firing was heard at intervals over the field at a much later hour, as some straggling party of fugitives were overtaken by their pursuers.
One evening, when we had gone on a somewhat long walk by the river, we were overtaken by the rain, and she caught cold.
The carriage was waiting in the yard, and the grandmother, who had already got in, was very frightened at the thought of being overtaken by night before they reached Paris, as the outskirts were not safe.
Patissot was as sad as though some disaster had overtaken him.
Besides, we should be pursued at once, overtaken in ten minutes, and brought back as prisoners at the mercy of the soldiery.
I hope so, but fear he will be prevented or overtaken before he can reach shelter.
For, by a course of intuitive calculations, he had located this spot as the one where the fell and fatal terror had overtaken its victims.
He wished he had never heard of South Africa, and then, even upon his youthful understanding, was borne in the certainty that what had overtaken him here would have overtaken him somewhere else.
I wonder what would have happened had I overtaken them in pursuit, breathless with running, uttering incoherent words, weeping, expostulatory.
Again and again in this book I have written of England as a feudal scheme overtaken by fatty degeneration and stupendous accidents of hypertrophy.
She has now a typewriting bureau in Riffle's Inn, and she runs it with a brisk vigour and considerable success, albeit a certain plumpness has overtaken her.
Bladesover, I thought, had undergone just the same change between the seventies and the new century that had overtaken the dear old Times, and heaven knows how much more of the decorous British fabric.
I was overtaken with self-pity and began to snivel, "I can't rest.
On the plain he was again overtaken by his two brothers, returning from their unsuccessful expedition, who seeing the bird and splendid cage in his possession, dragged him suddenly from his horse, beat him cruelly, and left him.
Heaven at length hath overtaken thee, and soon shall thy impure soul be plunged into that fire thou hast blasphemously adored.
Obviously their departure had been delayed until the approach of the present storm drove them hurriedly away, to be overtaken here in the canon.
We have, then, in this place an expression of the attitude of the court party in the midst of the great calamities that have overtaken them.
They had all set off for Fort Laramie, following the guidance of a mutinous old mule, and though many of them were hobbled they had driven three miles before they could be overtaken and driven back.
This discouraging and alarming calamity was not the first that hadovertaken them.
He encouraged his men not to allow themselves to be overtaken by a parcel of Neapolitans, as he derisively called the crew of Carantoni's boat.
If you had not overtaken me, I should never have seen you again," he said, looking at her affectionately.
I have been charmed by the purity of soul manifested by him on all occasions, and his continual efforts to bring back those who have been overtaken in a fault.
He had been told by one of his friends, that while he did not work too much, he did not pray enough, and that he was, therefore, liable to be overtaken by some sudden temptation and be betrayed into sin.
The unfortunate people had been overtaken by the dreadful disease, and had been compelled to halt on their journey until it abated.
I would have had little or no fear of being overtaken if Brigham had been fresh; but as he was not, I felt uncertain as to how he would stand a long chase.
At this point they were overtaken by Lewis Greeley, a nephew of Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune, who had been sent on to the river by Erastus Snow.
He was overtaken by his son with a note from Levi Stewart, advising return, but steadfastly kept on, declaring, "I have been appointed to a mission by the highest authority of God on earth.
The two messengers had overtaken the Battalion at the Arkansas crossing.
Among the Orang Laut, or sea-gipsies, the pursuit sometimes takes the form of a canoe-race; the woman is given a good start and must be overtaken before she has gone a certain distance.
Farther away, among the Kirghiz, the young woman is pursued by all her lovers, but she is armed with a formidable whip, which she does not hesitate to use if overtaken by a lover to whom she is not favorable.
This strange hallucination excited my interest, and, pursuing the conversation, I said, "I hoped to have overtaken you between Fettre and Montefeltro.
The horsemen rapidly approached; a few minutes more, and they would have overtaken the two men who looked at them as they came on, without making any movement towards them.
How is it, captain, that havingovertaken them, you allowed them to escape?
Indeed, it seemed impossible, from the place where they were, for the two men to regain the camp without being not only perceived, but overtaken in a few minutes by the travellers.
As you like; but it will be rather difficult to reenter the camp without being overtaken by them, especially at the pace they are coming.
The poverty, whose approach she had so long contemplated with a fearful eye, had now suddenly overtaken her.
She had been very happy and the great catastrophe had overtaken her suddenly, leaving her absolutely without friends.
I cannot refer to the great sorrow which has overtaken me and my dear innocent little Nellie.
And so the chase is kept up until the poor antelope is exhausted, when it is overtaken and pulled down by one or more of the hungry brutes.
By this time night hadovertaken us, and it was with difficulty that we could follow the trail, the tracks of the horses' shoes, which were our sole guide, being hardly discernible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overtaken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
