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Definition of Outruns
1. outrun [v] - See also: outrun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outruns
Literary usage of Outruns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forty-four Years of the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach by Meshach Browning, Edward Stabler (1859)
"Goes to Meadow Mountain with his son William, to hunt Bears —Chases an enormous
Bear—It outruns the Dogs, and gets off—Finds another, and, to walk without ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"—the flood runs there with such great force, That I imagine it outruns a horse;
And with a head some four foot high that rores, ..."
3. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"If that person is one who did not have intercourse with one who was born in the
same clan, he outruns ..."
4. Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform by Albert Bigelow Paine (1909)
"... MEDAL FOR SPEED CAPTAIN BILL outruns A CRIMINAL AND WINS A GOLD MEDAL WE are
not through with the Pan-handle, but we will relate here an incident which ..."
5. The Science of Ethics by Leslie Stephen (1907)
"... between that exquisite perception which outruns the more tangible tests and
the perverted perception which is biassed by some individual peculiarity. ..."
6. Tales of the Colonies by John Howison (1830)
"But I perceive that you think my imagination outruns my judgement. However, we
shall understand each other better by and by. Good night" VOL. II. ..."
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