Citations:overrun


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * At this, Christian was somewhat moved, and putting to all his strength, he quickly got up with Faithful, and did also overrun him; so the last was first.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * A churchyard. Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground. It was a worthy place. Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. A worthy place!