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Sentences ending with overtook

Woe to the unfortunate victim she overtook! [9]

Short sentences using overtook

And suppose she overtook him? [11]
Nicholas overtook the first sleigh. [2]

More example sentences with the word overtook in them

The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom. [2]
And now he urged one steed after another until it broke down, giving himself no rest even at night; half an hour's ride outside of Madrid he overtook the Venetian, and passed by him with a courteous greeting. [10]
I had trouble to overtake it, but my legs are long and there are many hours in a day; I overtook it last night. [5]
He soon overtook the rear ranks, passed on in advance of the others, and at last reached their leader's side and, calling his uncle by name, gave his own. [10]
At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. [2]
But pretty soon the camel-driver come a-running and overtook the dervish and says: "You ain't in society, you know, and you don't really need all you've got. [5]
It was said that ill luck of one kind or another always overtook any one who had the misfortune to hear that song. [5]
His anxiety to see the beloved sufferers urged him forward so quickly that he presently overtook another man who was walking in the same direction in the cool of the evening. [10]
He could already see how these men, who looked so small at the foot of the hill, jostled and overtook one another, waving their arms and their sabers in the air. [2]
When I overtook Sandy she was horrified, and said it was in the last degree indelicate to drag a countess by her train. [5]
After dinner, she rushed head long after Anna Mikhaylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. [2]
A great thunderstorm overtook them on their way that summer evening to the station; but they had no time to seek shelter. [14]
And again misfortune overtook the unhappy youth. [5]
A large party of Mormons, painted and tricked out as Indians, overtook the train of emigrant wagons some three hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, and made an attack. [5]
With the strength of despair she sprang up, ran after the mules, overtook them on a slight ascent which had lessened their speed, and seized the reins. [10]
But he came not, nor had he sent any report of himself, though he was alive and well, and every express that overtook them brought documents for Caesar in his handwriting. [10]
The barrister had no word of comment when I overtook him again. [9]
The following Monday Miss Ottway overtook her, at noon, on the stairs. [9]
The Dr. overtook me between Rushville and Beardstown. [7]
At the Schagensteg Maria saw Adrian, and overtook him. [10]
His example quickly inflamed the others' thirst for vengeance and, ere it could be prevented, the same fate overtook the other officials. [10]
Slumber overtook her in the midst of these conflicting feelings and thoughts, and towards morning she had a dream which, even by daylight, haunted her and made her shudder. [10]
I stopped short in the hallway, and there Madame Bouvet overtook me. [9]
It looked as if Milka would immediately pounce on the hare, but she overtook him and flew past. [2]
A misfortune overtook her lover, and she died of sorrow nearly fifty years ago. [5]
Eva was breathing heavily when she emerged from the forest and stopped to wait until Sister Perpetua had finished her prayer in the chapel and overtook her. [10]
He held his head higher, his eyes shone with the light of life, and with swift steps he followed the maid, overtook her, and came out on the Povarskoy. [2]
As we tramped gaily out at the gate of the town, we overtook a peasant's cart, partly laden with odds and ends of cabbages and similar vegetable rubbish, and drawn by a small cow and a smaller donkey yoked together. [5]
But not far from Bald Hills he again came out on the road and overtook his regiment at its halting place by the dam of a small pond. [2]
But the most frightened creature I saw, was a led horse that overtook us. [5]
How could I dissuade you from mitigating the great misfortune which overtook this youth in your house? [10]
Followed by Lelorgne d'Ideville, an interpreter, he overtook Napoleon at a gallop and reined in his horse with an amused expression. [2]
Shortly after the departure of the prisoners, the army which had been gathered to pursue the Hebrews left the city of Rameses, and as the convicts had rested some time at the well, the troops almost overtook them. [10]
Careless of all comment he hastened on, overtook her, and they walked rapidly side by side. [9]
Meanwhile the march began, and he only overtook us yesterday evening. [5]
On the high-road before Schwabach a wagon, occupied by some strolling performers, overtook the traveller. [10]
She went to bed far less excited than she had been the night before, and before she had ended her evening prayer, slumber overtook her weary brain. [10]
The "king" was as good as his word--he overtook that long procession of tourists and went by it like a hurricane. [5]
At the mass-meeting Angelo tried to make his great temperance oration, but was so discommoded--by hiccoughs and thickness of tongue that he had to give it up; then drowsiness overtook him and his head drooped against Luigi's and he went to sleep. [5]
The squadron overtook and passed the infantry and the battery--which had also quickened their pace--rode down a hill, and passing through an empty and deserted village again ascended. [2]
A week later, and in these same great woods on the way to Brampton, Cynthia overtook him once more. [9]
The Epicurus overtook and captured the fugitive. [10]
Death awaited Orion; and before it overtook him he should know who had sharpened the sword. [10]
Fate overtook them all soon enough. [10]
Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims; but in this one was no merriment, no jokes, no laughter, no playful ways, nor any happy giddiness, whether of youth or age. [5]
Once we saw a four-master; once a shy, silent steamer avoided us, westward bound; and once in mid-ocean, tossed on a sea sun-silvered under a rack of clouds, we overtook a gallant little schooner out of New Bedford or Gloucester--a forthfarer, too. [9]

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