No attendant was within sight; indeed, it was often a nice strain of flattery to permit the Sovereign to suppose he had outridden and distanced all the rest of the chase. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The men with the lanterns had now fallen into the rear, or rather, the equestrians of the rescue-party had outridden the pedestrians. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Agesilaus meanwhile, considering that the horse had outridden the foot, but that he himself had the whole body of his own army entire, made haste to engage them. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
He also saw Manu Bappoo who had outridden the British pursuit and now gestured to Dodd from the gate-tower's turret. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
He had far outridden them, and was alone in the undulating uplands, when he saw the first traces of the assault which had broken the empress's army. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1985)
Still more horsemen had appeared in the gateway, several of Domville's outridden retinue, and among them Simon and Guy, by the look of their faces by no means eager to be noticed or take any part in this encounter. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1981)
In one race he was quite clearly outridden in a tight finish by the champion jockey, but all he said about that was that he would improve, he supposed, with practice. ❋ Francis, Dick (1971)
The effect of this speech, as the orator, pale, exhausted, shattered, unstrung, with nerves like the torn cordage of a ship that has outridden the tempest, descended from the tribune, baffles all description. ❋ Edmund Flagg (N/A)
I knew that experience for having outridden many a gale in the mouth of the mighty St. Lawrence River. ❋ Frederick Philip Grove (N/A)
"So! has my news outridden me?" the man exclaimed in very evident amazement. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)
She had been outridden, swept from her saddle as if she were a puppet, and compelled to bear the proximity of the man's own hateful body and the restraint of his arms. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A mile, two miles dropped behind them, and then in an open stretch, for he had outridden her somewhat, Anthony reined back, caught the bridle of her horse, and pulled it down to a sharp trot. ❋ Max Brand (1918)
Could they have outridden the gelding to such an extent as that? ❋ Max Brand (1918)
When he was young, younger, he corrected himself, he could have outdrunk, outridden .... ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)
Cesare, meanwhile, was at Fano, where he paused to allow his army to come up with him, for he had outridden it from Fossate, through foul wintry weather, attended only by his light horse. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
He held himself to a slower pace, realizing that, while his companion could have outridden him by days and miles, the other was not used to walking. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
"He has outridden me and reached this place first!" she cried. ❋ Sydney C. Grier (1900)
