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Some have been of my own opinion, and endeavoured to write the history of their own lives; wherein Moses hath outgone them all, and left not only the story of his life, but, as some will have it, of his death also.

Religio Medici 2007

But this, though not arduous, had outgone his ambition, nature having gifted him with a remarkable power of extracting nourishment from food, which is now called assimilation.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Lucullus to give place to his successor, Sylla, and resign the war to whom it was decreed, he presently left Boeotia, and retired back to Sentius, although his success had outgone all hopes, and Greece was well disposed to a new revolution, upon account of his gallant behavior.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

But when he saw a vast number of shields appearing above the water, and the horse following them in good order, gathering his men in a closer body, himself at the head of them, he began the charge, conspicuous by his rich and beautiful armor, and letting it be seen that his reputation had not outgone what he was able effectually to perform.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Many needless and curious questions have been, by the serpentine wits of men, moved and agitated concerning them; wherein, perhaps, our author hath not been outgone by many; as will be judged by those who have weighed his discourses concerning them, with his distinctions of “desires, intentions, purposes, and decrees,” in God.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

But I have outgone my destiny in living, to stay here the survivor of my child.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

'O thou who dost sway mortal and immortal things with eternal command and the terror of thy thunderbolt, how can my Aeneas have transgressed so grievously against thee? how his Trojans? on whom, after so many deaths outgone, all the world is barred for Italy's sake.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Nay, but when, their duty done, they shall lie at last in their Ausonian haven, from all that have outgone the waves and borne their Dardanian captain to the fields of Laurentum, will I take their mortal body, and bid them be goddesses of the mighty deep, even as Doto the Nereïd and Galatea, when they cut the sea that falls away from their breasts in foam. '

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

Alas, by what destinies is he driven! what wars outgone he chronicled!

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil