Citations:overtake


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * If I may not go with you, I must do as I did before you overtook me, even go by myself, until some overtake me that will be glad of my company.
 * True; and she may be to us both caution and example; caution, that we should shun her sin; or a sign of what judgment will overtake such as shall not be prevented by this caution; so Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with the two hundred and fifty men that perished in their sin, did also become a sign or example to others to beware.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * His hat was off, before he opened the door; his comforter too. He was on his stool in a jiffy; driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.


 * 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
 * "I overtook and passed the doctor between Woking and Send."