Our mere anticipations of life
outrun its realities.
"Well, I have betrayed my feeling, Tess, at last," said he, with a curious sigh of desperation, signifying unconsciously that his heart had
outrun his judgement.
Of course, in such an eventuality, I remain to be accounted for; but I
outrun my story, and such accounting will be made before I am done.
These rascals were all on foot, but no matter, they were always up to time--they can
outrun and outlast a donkey.
Unconsciously she had been walking faster and faster, her body trying to
outrun her mind; but she was now on the summit of a little hillock of earth which rose above the river and displayed the valley.
They continued valiantly to lie, but the truth continued to
outrun them.
It was with a peculiar kind of pantomime that Mr Willet filled up every pause; and in this he was considered by the Black Lion, who had been his familiar for some years, quite to surpass and go beyond himself, and
outrun the expectations of his most admiring friends.
But it is very easy to
outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
"She's only sixteen, and she can
outrun nine colts out of ten.
He catched me a couple of times and thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and dodged him or
outrun him most of the time.
For when things are once come to the execution, there is no secrecy, comparable to celerity; like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift, as it
outruns the eye.
"Chelsea outran us quite a lot in April, now we've
outrun them."