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Updated: September 26, 2025
"Watch some tall ship, she'll joy the sight of thee, * The breeze outstripping in her haste to flee; As when a bird, with widely-spreading wings, * Leaveth the sky to settle on the sea." So the vessel sailed on her fastest and the wind to her was fairest.
A bullet whizzed past my eye, and leaves, cut by the firing, pattered down on us; but as usual the natives fired too high. 'So we rode along, seeing men, and being fired at continually, but outstripping the enemy.
Perhaps this is speaking more oracularly than becomes my ignorance; but it does appear to me that the civilized world is on the eve of a change and a progress, putting all past data at fault, and outstripping all present imagination.
A handsome, acute, accomplished gentleman, outstripping all the painters of his age in the extent of his learning and the variety of his knowledge an artist of delicacy and taste, rather than of energy and vigour pale in colour and placid in expression, yet always graceful and refined there was a charm about Ramsay's works that his contemporaries thoroughly understood, though they could not always themselves achieve it.
If they take this position they'll have to rush it, and rush it hard. Well, do you believe in the Ba-gcatya now, Stanninghame?" Save a nod the other makes no answer, and now the attention of both men is upon the scene before them. Some few of the fugitives, in the desperation of their terror, are gradually outstripping their pursuers.
The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France!
He slipped the ring of office from his finger and passed it unperceived into the officer's hand. "There will be some confusion at the gate," he said, in a low voice. "Escape then if you can. Ride for Treves as you never rode before. Stop not to fight with any; everything depends on outstripping pursuit.
At a bound New York attained the rank of the foremost commercial city in the United States, completely outstripping its competitors. While the trade of these fell off precipitately, the population and trade of New York City nearly doubled in a single decade. The value of land began to increase stupendously.
Step by step she had kept pace with her brother: sometimes he had excelled her, sometimes she thought that she was outstripping him. They would never bring her the guerdon that might fall to Sydney's lot; but she felt that she, too, had a right to her father's praise. She had been vaguely hurt during Sydney's absence to find that Mr.
Holding him high upon their shoulders, in spite of his frequent and ill-advised endeavours to cast himself to the ground, some surrounded those who bore him after the manner of disposing his troops affected by a skilful leader when the enemy begin to waver and crying aloud that it was their unchanging purpose to submit him to the test of burning splinters and afterwards to torture him, they succeeded by this stratagem in bringing him through the crowd; and hurling back or outstripping those who endeavoured to follow, conveyed him secretly and unperceived to a deserted and appointed spot.
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