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But the enemy's spirit began to slacken; one after another of the players still left to the opposite side succeeded in outrunning pursuit and touching the foremost prisoner for the time being, so as to set him free by the rules of the game.
I would, however, suggest, as a possibility, the very opposite order of relation between the disease and the intellectual manifestations. Not the disease may always have caused the preternatural growth of the intellect; but, inversely, this growth of the intellect coming on spontaneously, and outrunning the capacities of the physical structure, may have caused the disease.
The bright-blazered youth walked up. "Awfully sorry, you know. Hurt?" Jellicoe was pressing the injured spot tenderly with his fingertips, uttering sharp howls whenever, zeal outrunning discretion, he prodded himself too energetically. "Silly ass, Dunster," he groaned, "slamming about like that." "Awfully sorry. But I did yell." "It's swelling up rather," said Mike.
The chief game of the Shoshonees, therefore, is the antelope, which, when pursued, retreats to the open plains, where the horses have full room for the chase. But such is its extraordinary fleetness and wind, that a single horse has no possible chance of outrunning it or tiring it down, and the hunters are therefore obliged to resort to stratagem.
"It's Minnie!" cried Isabel as they sprang down the path to the mill pond; and Leonard, outrunning her, called back, "We'll get her out! She's not gone under!" The next moment he, and then she, were on the scene. Minnie stood on the firmer ice away from the bank, moaning in continued agitation, but already rescued. It was Arthur Winslow who had saved her.
Caniolle, at the same moment, left the back of the cab which Petit, and another policeman called Buffet, had at last succeeded in outrunning, threw himself on the reins, and allowing himself to be dragged along, mastered the horse, which stopped, exhausted.
But as the nation moved the King moved, leading it, but not outrunning it; checking those who went too fast, dragging forward those who lagged behind.
Though these were two fast-sailing frigates, we were outrunning them, not rapidly, but sufficiently to make it certain, while yet we were a mile offshore, that we would easily make the river entrance, if such was his intention. But evidently not so, for he now ordered the gig ready for lowering and had Mr. Cunningham's strong-box brought on deck.
With a strong outrunning current in our favour we sped through the channel between Stromness and Graemsay, the St. Magnus being now to windward of us and several lengths behind. Tom Kinlay was sitting on the weather gunwale near his father, who was steering.
At six o'clock that evening Rebecca and Emma Jane flew up the hill and down the lane again, waving their hands to the dear old couple who were waiting for them in the usual place, the back piazza where they had sat so many summers in a blessed companionship never marred by an unloving word. "Where's Jacky?" called Rebecca breathlessly, her voice always outrunning her feet.
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