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Definition of Outracing
1. outrace [v] - See also: outrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outracing
Literary usage of Outracing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"We spur to a land of no name, outracing the storm-wind; We leap to the infinite
dark like sparks from the anvil. Thou leadest, O God! ..."
2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"... hoofs of invisible horses, All night, from their stalls, the importunate pawing
and neighing. We spur to a land of no name, outracing the storm-wind; ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"We spur to a land of no name, outracing the storm-wind; We leap to the infinite
dark, like the sparks from the anvil. Thou leadest, O God! ..."
4. The Great Plains: The Romance of Western American Exploration, Warfare, and by Randall Parrish (1907)
"A week later this same youthful messenger was chased by Sioux Indians near Horse
Creek, but succeeded in outracing them to the station at Sweet- water. ..."
5. The Life of Clinton Bowen Fisk by Alphonso Alva Hopkins (1888)
"... whose ' eyes are as the eyelids of the morning,' whose hoofs are iron—in speed
outracing the wind as he goes storming through valleys, through and over ..."
6. American Poems, 1776-1900: With Notes and Biographies by Augustus White Long (1905)
"We spur to a land of no name, outracing the stormwind; We leap to the infinite
dark, like the sparks from the ..."
7. South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke (1900)
"Up they went, each outracing the other, straining every nerve and muscle to gain
the summit of the hill, to be first to handle the prize! ..."
8. Preparedness: The American Versus the Military Programme by William Isaac Hull (1916)
"Then, far outracing the submarine, they can report its presence to warships and
enable them to escape or to destroyers and enable them to pursue it. ..."
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