Some have been of my own opinion, and endeavoured to write the history of their own lives; wherein Moses hath outgone them all, and left not only the story of his life, but, as some will have it, of his death also. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But this, though not arduous, had outgone his ambition, nature having gifted him with a remarkable power of extracting nourishment from food, which is now called assimilation. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
But when he saw a vast number of shields appearing above the water, and the horse following them in good order, gathering his men in a closer body, himself at the head of them, he began the charge, conspicuous by his rich and beautiful armor, and letting it be seen that his reputation had not outgone what he was able effectually to perform. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
Lucullus to give place to his successor, Sylla, and resign the war to whom it was decreed, he presently left Boeotia, and retired back to Sentius, although his success had outgone all hopes, and Greece was well disposed to a new revolution, upon account of his gallant behavior. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
Many needless and curious questions have been, by the serpentine wits of men, moved and agitated concerning them; wherein, perhaps, our author hath not been outgone by many; as will be judged by those who have weighed his discourses concerning them, with his distinctions of “desires, intentions, purposes, and decrees,” in God. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
But I have outgone my destiny in living, to stay here the survivor of my child. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
'O thou who dost sway mortal and immortal things with eternal command and the terror of thy thunderbolt, how can my Aeneas have transgressed so grievously against thee? how his Trojans? on whom, after so many deaths outgone, all the world is barred for Italy's sake. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
Nay, but when, their duty done, they shall lie at last in their Ausonian haven, from all that have outgone the waves and borne their Dardanian captain to the fields of Laurentum, will I take their mortal body, and bid them be goddesses of the mighty deep, even as Doto the Nereïd and Galatea, when they cut the sea that falls away from their breasts in foam. ' ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
Here, so many tempestuous seas outgone, alas! my father, the solace of every care and chance, Anchises is [710-718] lost to me. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)
Alas, by what destinies is he driven! what wars outgone he chronicled! ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
History of their own lives; wherein Moses hath outgone them all and left not onely the story of his life, but (as some will have it,) of his death also. ❋ 1605-1682 (1923)
Some have been of my opinion, and endeavoured to write the History of their own lives; wherein Moses hath outgone them all and left not onely the story of his life, but (as some will have it,) of his death also. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Damaris gazed upon him with brown, incredulous eyes, and when she spoke her words came somewhat breathlessly, having quite outgone the courtly affectation of similes run mad. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
WHAT! dost thou pray that the outgone tide be rolled back on the strand, ❋ Unknown (1900)
It does not strike me as probable that I shall be strong enough for going all that way; still I have many a time outgone the probable. ❋ Unknown (1893)
The "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" was undertaken at the desire of St.ele: in this the author is generally confessed to have miscarried, yet he has miscarried only as compared with Dryden; for he has far outgone other competitors. ❋ Johnson, Samuel (1891)
Neither Lyly nor any of our late nineteenth-century "stylists" has outgone, perhaps none has touched, ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
But there is this difference, that, while the renaissance writers fell short of their pattern, the modern schools of romance have outgone their masters -- not perhaps in the intellectual -- but certainly in the artistic value of their product. ❋ Unknown (1886)
And in the night again we fled and reached the wild-wood before dawn, and well - nigh fell into the hands of those who were hunting us, and had outgone us the day before, as we lay hid. ❋ William Morris (1865)
