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So did she, talking and telling as they went; and she went on a pace before him, and howsoever long or hardly he might stride he might not overgo her.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Penia or Atalanta shall not overgo them, through seas, deserts, mountains, and dangerous places, as they did to gaze on Psyche: many mortal men came far and near to see that glorious object of her age, Paris for Helena, Corebus to Troja.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Shakespeare's handling of the tinker's subject, however, like other rude and homely matters taken up by an acute mind is such as to fasten deeper attention and to overgo a tinker's appreciation.

Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900

And when the King saw him he ran to kiss him, and began to make such joy of him as none could overgo.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

To be plaine, I am voyde of al judgement, if your nine Com{oe}dies, whereunto, in imitation of Herodotus, you give the names of the Nine Muses, and (in one man's fansie not unworthily), come not neerer Ariostoes Com{oe}dies, eyther for the finenesse of plausible elocution, or the rareness of poetical invention, than that Elvish queene doth to his Orlando Furioso, which notwithstanding, you will needes seem to emulate, and hope to overgo, as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters.

A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

And to all men a term is set, which none may overgo.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

So did she, talking and telling as they went; and she went on a pace before him, and howsoever long or hardly he might stride he might not overgo her.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and the rest all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower; a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The peculiar melody and profuse imagination which the pastoral disclosed at once placed its author in the forefront of living poets, but a far greater work was already in hand; and from some words of Gabriel Harvey's we see Spenser bent on rivalling Ariosto, and even hoping "to overgo" the "Orlando Furioso" in his "Elvish Queen."

History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860

Ten thousand men would fully cover the artillery and cavalry and perhaps considerably overgo it -- (The return for the 31st of May, just four days before the commencement of the movement, shows the infantry to have been 54,356 for duty, cavalry 9,536, and artillery 4,460, total 68,352. This return was not accessible to me when the within was written.)--150 guns would cover all of our artillery, and they consisted of field pieces, the most of which had been captured from the enemy.

Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States, 1912