They had just sighted the ancient town of Positano and were circling a gigantic point of rock, when the great adventure of the day overtook them.
He was a severe man, cold and unsympathetic, but I am sorry we could not have been reconciled before this awful fate overtook him.
But then the thought occurred that this young Italian had befriended both him and his nieces in an extremity, and was therefore entitled to consideration when trouble in turn overtook himself.
Ethan held himself to have escaped a dire indignity, as he overtook his aunt at the edge of the platform, close to a dilapidated carriage.
He almost overtook the shabby man, who seemed in feverish haste.
Driven thus to think within himself, he recalled the solemn warning of Dona Terea, and fear overtook him that her words were coming true.
The detected seducer at once made a rush for his arms, but Juon Tare overtook him with an enormous bound and seized one of his hands.
While with the help of his left hand and his teeth he was binding up his useless right hand, his pursuer overtook him.
Necessarily following the same coarse, she overtook the latter just as the day began to dawn.
As a result darkness overtook us long before we overtook them, and I had one or two rather nasty spills, reaching camp at last sore, shaken, and bruised.
We overtook our horses at a village en route, and paused to see that our instructions were being properly carried out.
The latter was pursued by Menas, who overtook and injured him.
He overtook him near the Taurus range and allowed him to proceed no farther, and they encamped there quietly for several days.
With his remaining vessels he took the enemy's ramparts, where no one opposed him because of small numbers, and then overtook and without a battle got possession of the other army which was retreating into Macedonia.
He overtook it, he passed it, and still he galloped on.
When she overtook the vicar and his companion, she began to whisper certain particulars into the ear that was not on Rose's side.
He never overtook her till at the drawing-room door she paused with amazing dignity.
In the wooded lane outside the rectory gate he overtook Catherine.
The vicar was of opinion that when his latter end overtook him he should meet it on the whole as courageously as other men.
On the way home she overtook Elsmere returning from an errand for the vicar.
The words would not flow, and it was almost a relief when in the middle that strange creeping sleep overtook the squire again.
At nightfall he left the house with his host, who offered to accompany him until he overtook the cart.
Bob retained the bridle, and was beginning to lead the the horse up the street towards his rider, who was more chagrined than hurt, when the Korean gentleman overtookhim on foot.
Believing that this must prove some creature of rare beauty, an Arab of purest descent, I followed them as they went, and at last overtook them.
One of these mornings it was, that I was returning disconsolately from the village, Crofton, whom I believed at the time miles away on the mountains, overtook me.
Again the fiend men tried to reach him, and, though the gap was bigger and many fell into it, hundreds made the jump and overtook him.
They overtook him at the Gap and chased him up the slopes of Tammany, though he checked their progress by rolling stones among them.
The man set off in a raging chase, and she had not gone far before Sutherland overtook her, tied her by the wrists to his horse's tail, and began the homeward journey.
Darkness soon overtook him, and Huon was blindly stumbling forward, leading his weary steed by the bridle, when he perceived a light, toward which he directed his way.
The new queen, however, did not long enjoy her power, for a dangerous illness overtook her.
Parzival sped after the knight, overtook him, and loudly bade him surrender weapons and steed.
Oberon's magic horn had called forth the raging tempest, and his power suddenly stayed its fury as Huon and his companion overtook a company of monks and nuns.
He overtook Nurla Bai at the entrance to the mine gallery, and together they disappeared.
We overtook Nurla Bai and his man nearly fifty miles down the river.
He'll not ride many more races, I'm thinking, such as the night he rode and overtook your horse and stopped it.
This bantering was interrupted by a stalwart man sitting in the prow of a canoe which overtookthem at this point.
He had gone but a few steps when the hunter overtook him and handed him the key of the tool-house, saying that he should feel more at ease with it in the proprietor's possession.
So ill-directed were their efforts to escape, that the Indians, by setting two more boats afloat and starting in pursuit, easily overtook three of the fugitive craft, which surrendered to them without resistance.
Yes, I did, and to begin with, I delayed their progress as much as possible, in the hope that Cuyler might reach you before we overtook him, and that you might join his retreat to Niagara.
When the latter overtook his companion, a few moments later, he found him standing in an open space that he instantly recognized as the place where he had bidden farewell to Edith Hester some two weeks before.
But Geryone overtook him and there was a fierce struggle.
But the two sons of the North Wind drew their swords, spread their pinions and set off through the air in pursuit of the thieves, whom they at last overtook among some islands, after a chase of hundreds of miles.
Coming at full speed down the street, Sir James Mount, followed by two servants, overtook him about a hundred yards beyond the old gates, much to the other's annoyance.
In about half an hour of walk I overtook a great, ragged man, moving pretty fast, but feeling before him with a staff.
On our return we overtook a party of about twenty young black girls, dressed in excellent taste; their black skins and snow-white linen being set off by coloured turbans and large shawls.
They were flying northward; and with the aid of a light breeze, they overtook us at a rate of ten or fifteen miles an hour.
And as he spoke, striding along in the hurry of his spirits as if he carried a broom and swept the whole Whig party before him, he overtook no less a person than Sergeant Wathen, who had been lunching at the Athenaeum.
It happened that as they drove in the last of the twilight over the long stone bridge, an open car drawn by four horses and containing a dozen rough-looking men overtook them and raced them for a hundred yards.
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