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About five miles from Monticello Harry overtook the scouting party, now on their way back to that city.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNFrom the moral nature of man proceeded all the evils that overtook his constitution in consequence of sin.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMThey had not quite gained the ridge referred to when the danger that Quentin feared overtook them.
HUNTED AND HARRIEDR.M. BALLANTYNEThey paused for a salmon dinner at Reitz's camp, where the pack train overtook and passed them, then plodded on again.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSONIn the yard a quick step behind her overtook her, and she found herself looking into the flushed, agitated face of the new boy.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTEROn the walk home that noon, Harold, as was frequently the case, overtook her.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTERThe persons I met or overtook upon the road were not altogether in unison with what I must call the romance of the scene.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYEven Harold Day, who overtook her, found her so absorbed in her own thoughts that she was anything but her usual talkative self.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTERBy three o'clock of the last day, we turned our faces towards home, and by rare luck, overtook a man who lived upon Fitz.
ALONEMARION HARLANDHis career is now stopped, and that justice and doom which overtook a Burke and a Hare are his last and only portion.
THE DIARY OF A RESURRECTIONIST, 1811-1812JAMES BLAKE BAILEY