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    1. “And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore


    2. ‘You sound as though you know Wales pretty well,’ I commented, as he pulls out to overtake a caravan


    3. Roman’s will seemed to overtake the effects of the paralyzing agent in his


    4. had managed to overtake the thief without noticing


    5. As he looked around, eying the collapsed entrance and then the dusty bedrolls and fire pit full of ashes, the reality began to sink in and to overtake him


    6. In calm air, it could easily overtake them, but as long as the wind blew hard, Homer’s boat would stay well ahead


    7. I closed my eyes and let sleep overtake me, all the while thinking that this was a good last memory


    8. Strangely, as he watched light overtake the darkness outside, he felt extreme physical tiredness as well as emotional exhilaration in what he had accomplished


    9. steamed after the ship to overtake it


    10. Actually, the Shenandoah was catching up to the Milo, but would never overtake her before the Milo arrived in San Francisco

    11. Granted, they have a few hours head start, but we must try and overtake them


    12. It was evident that any attempt to overtake


    13. Then, slumping behind his desk, he took a deep breath, trying to calm the palpitations that threatened to overtake him


    14. The heat of My face shall burn against the inhabitants, and by the hotness of My anger shall I scorch the earth! Behold, the dry and cracked ground shall speak in the hollows of the waste places, as a testament against them! The heat shall be very oppressive, and desolations shall overtake them at noonday!


    15. For destruction will overtake all of the earth


    16. His thoughts were, "this could be an omen, if I overtake and leave this sign behind, would I be abandoning Jay


    17. ” Now, was this convergence creating something that could not be comprehended? So he decided to follow and not overtake and keep repeating the words whispered over and over again until the vehicle turned or stopped


    18. Feeling a sudden burst of energy overtake me, I swung my legs over the bed and sat up in an attempt to better gauge my surroundings


    19. Feeling the drowsiness begin to overtake me, I lay the phone on the nightstand and turn over to catch some much needed Zs


    20. 8 And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for

    21. But before he could be her brother-in-law he had to have a talk with her, so, having seen her leaving Ingleside as he stood in the doorway of a Glen store, he had straightway plunged into the valley to overtake her


    22. come to pass, that the sword, which you feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which you were


    23. We followed along quickly hoping to overtake him


    24. overtake the Hardy Daytona, his attention fixed on the truck


    25. There they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them


    26. overtake him more difficult


    27. His vampire abilities manifested themselves, and I was taken aback by the force, the sheer power of his passion, the enthusiasm, the zeal with which he kissed me threatened to overtake me


    28. I shook myself trying not to let sorrow overtake me, I wasn’t going to fall apart what was the use? I thought as I walked out of the room with my head held high


    29. I didn’t even realize there were three other people in the car until it moved and we were out of the estate in an instant, for a moment I let sorrow overtake me


    30. The trouble of the first stroke is the injury of the eyes; the trouble of the second stroke, of the hearing; and so in succession, all the strokes shall overtake you; And Adam so speaking to his sons, groaned out loud, and said: What shall I do? I am in great grief; And Eve also wept, saying: My Lord Adam, arise, give me the half of your disease, and let me bear it, because through me this has happened to you; through me you are in distresses and troubles; And Adam said to Eve: Arise, and go with our son Seth near paradise, and put earth on your heads, and weep, beseeching the Lord that He may have compassion on me, and send His angel to paradise, and give me of the tree in which flows the oil out of it, and that you may bring it to me; and I shall anoint myself, and have rest, and show you the manner in which we were deceived at first

    31. 4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, Wherefore have you rewarded evil for good?


    32. 6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past


    33. 45 Moreover all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed; because you listened not to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:


    34. 5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out, where the men went I wot not, pursue after them quickly; for you shall overtake them


    35. unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them,


    36. The trouble of the first stroke is the injury of the eyes; the trouble of the second stroke of the hearing; and so in succession all the strokes shall overtake you; And Adam so speaking to his sons groaned out loud and said: What shall I do? I am in great grief; And Eve also wept saying: My Lord Adam arise give me the half of your disease and let me bear it because through me this has happened to you; through me you are in distresses and troubles; And Adam said to Eve: Arise and go with our son Seth near paradise and put earth on your heads and weep beseeching the Lord that He may have compassion on me and send His angel to paradise and give me of the tree in which flows the oil out of it and that you may bring it to me; and I shall anoint myself and have rest and show you the manner in which we were deceived at first


    37. With it depending on the moment whether one became more seeable that the other, but neither ever being able to fully overtake the other


    38. Further, I felt there was no way the local competition could get their hands on that kind of cash; they had already borrowed heavily to build the boards to compete against me, and I had begun to overtake them


    39. “What is this guy doing?” I slowed down and moved more to the left so he could overtake me


    40. He had looked with great tenderness a long moment before a sense of dire urgency seemed to overtake him

    41. Walk while you have the Light that darkness doesn't overtake you


    42. Still, the question continued to beat at his mind, craving an answer:—Why him? And another question too—when will Ralph and the one Simon should call “the enemy” overtake them?


    43. Walk so long as you have light test the darkness overtake you; for he who walks in the darkness knows not where he goes


    44. Wherefore my brethren let us do the will of the Father who called us that we may live; and let us earnestly follow after virtue but forsake every wicked tendency which would lead us into transgression; and flee from ungodliness lest evils overtake us


    45. The elation of soon being in a position to attempt to free his queen and hold her in his arms under a blue sky was beginning to overtake the current matters


    46. again, was that the Fleet would overtake him


    47. It takes awhile, but the party gradually sees Bobby can win, that he can beat Humphrey, then overtake the Republican nominee, probably Nixon


    48. happened all of the time, addictions would overtake humanity


    49. catch up or overtake us, what with our constant drive for progress and development?‖


    50. safe place to overtake on that climb and often cars and trucks would boil on the














































    1. “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted” (Galatians 6:1)


    2. Whether one is overtaken by the lies of whatever religion in which they are immersed, or if they have a valid mental illness, or if someone was abused by their father as a child -- it all comes down to the same thing


    3. At one point on their walk, the three companions were overtaken


    4. “But hang on, how did you ‘protect it’? It was overtaken by Queen Oizys a few weeks ago, before we defeated her


    5. ‘I’m sure that we’ve overtaken him again,’ said


    6. They had overtaken the wall and were making their way farther into the city, but they returned as they saw Barrin there


    7. I got off the tram and retraced my steps back to the house I now no longer felt the same trepidation that had overtaken me the first time I came here


    8. Except for those two moments, last night and now again to-night, when the anger had overtaken her


    9. flying high on the overtaken vessel


    10. Yet who is aware of it, until it has overtaken them?

    11. Assiduously the world is overtaken


    12. Maintenon sat up a little straighter, noting in some shock that a state of mild arousal had overtaken him


    13. It would only be a matter of seconds until he was overtaken


    14. 37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed


    15. “The police chase has overtaken sports as California’s favorite pastime


    16. 17 For whether he were a farmer, or shepherd, or a labourer in the field, he was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could


    17. They pursued after them a great number, and having overtaken them, they camped against them, and made war against them on the


    18. bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he


    19. And now, that my Lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen on them, and their sin has overtaken


    20. was overtaken by the following crowd

    21. He was overtaken with emotion by the


    22. Overtaken by that


    23. Moreover, overtaken by the process of bankruptcy and the relentless pursuit by the Board of Equalization to collect taxes, he overlooked some possibilities within his reach and did not even have the presence of mind to ask for some legal advice


    24. 31 Now when it was told the king's servants and the host that was at Jerusalem in the city of David that certain men who had broken the king's commandment were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness 32 They pursued after them a great number and having overtaken them they camped against them and made war against them on the Sabbath Day


    25. “What do you have in mind?” Moshe asked, not at all surprised that a similar thought pattern was in operation in Korah’s sensibility of the change that appeared to have overtaken them all


    26. 23 His friends and bodyguards beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him struck with exceeding terror and fearing that he would die speedily removed him


    27. 11 And now that my Lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose even death is now fallen on them and their sin has overtaken them with which they will provoke their God to anger whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done: 12 For their victuals fail them and all their water is scant and they have determined to lay hands on their cattle and purposed to consume all those things that God has forbidden them to eat by his laws: 13 And are resolved to spend the firstfruits of the the tenths of wine and oil which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests that serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God; the which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands


    28. was in operation in Korah's sensibility of the change that appeared to have overtaken them all


    29. 1 But when Simon Cephas saw this he fell before the feet of Jesus and said to him My Lord I beg of you to depart from me for I am a sinful man; 2 and amazement took possession of him and of all who were with him 3 because of the draught of the fishes which they had taken; and so also were James and John the sons of Zebedee overtaken who were Simon's partners; And Jesus said to Simon 4 Fear not; from now on you shall be a fisher of men to life; and they brought the boats to the land; and they left everything and followed him


    30. It is up to us to discover how hatred has overtaken our being and our

    31. Another time a couple came in and were overtaken by joy


    32. The husband really got overtaken with God’s joy, and said that he laughed more that night than he had in 45 years


    33. He knows that even the most wicked people alive were created for His love, and that it’s the sin nature that has overtaken and deceived them


    34. Panic was quickly overtaken by the darkness that enveloped her


    35. Overtaken and overcome by the Romans, we only exist now


    36. I was overtaken with a strange feeling, like someone drilled through my skull, to the core, and dug out my soul


    37. overgrown, a jungle had invaded the urban space, but rarely had the growth overtaken the road, and so


    38. This, once again, is a place where man's greed has overtaken what


    39. The O’Connor family were saddened by the events that had overtaken him


    40. Even with their start on him, he should have overtaken the priests by this time

    41. I was overtaken by the thrill and


    42. In a few minutes they had overtaken the retreating Stavka soldiers and volunteers struggling through the snow


    43. The miracle was that my pursuer had not already overtaken and destroyed


    44. The hundreds of Veiled escape crafts caught in the cataclysm were quickly overtaken, and destroyed by the planet’s shrapnel


    45. chapter to his progress as a Creative Dreamer had been overtaken by events


    46. If he hadn't been in so much pain, his nausea might have overtaken him


    47. The desire to understand himself and his kind had, by this time, overtaken even his thirst for blood


    48. He then collapsed on his knees, overtaken by grief


    49. His followers collectively burst into tears, overtaken by grief


    50. Overtaken by emotion, Ingrid answered him by hugging him and kissing him passionately














































    1. retros so the rock overtakes us, and then tuck in behind it as it careens towards the transit point


    2. Consequently the loyal henchmen are not even safe from the same fate which overtakes their victims


    3. They are broken down when calamity overtakes them, washed away by the fierce waters thereof


    4. Looking to the day, when the plowman overtakes the reaper,


    5. You slow as your fizz overtakes you


    6. Kaite overtakes you in a blue streak dashing over the pavement


    7. Instead of thinking rationally to prevent problems we wait till catastrophe overtakes us, with the predictable result; we’re on the brink of annihilation


    8. You relax and a confusing numb happiness overtakes you like heroin does a junkie


    9. A strange sensation overtakes him, unlike any he has ever felt before when he looks at the painting of baby Yeshua


    10. If the urge to communicate with me overtakes you: email: prethj@activ8

    11. technology overtakes the magic, what is the wizard’s


    12. Backing out he runs into the kitchen and out of the back door as a fit of coughing overtakes him


    13. I set a path between the Sierra and the Pacific and make some navigational notes and then let myself settle into that sense of freedom and oneness that always overtakes me in the air


    14. Jeremy arches his eyebrows and a grin overtakes his face


    15. Silence overtakes us, and the four of us sit there, eyes aimed at the dome, watching the asteroids float by and collide with other asteroids


    16. and ‘thine’ overtakes them


    17. Remaining stationary It overtakes all


    18. Indeed, perishing has become as a mercy for him whose quality is such, because if he remains alive, he will cause more damage to himself and to the others, therefore, and out of God's mercy toward them, He overtakes them suddenly and strictly lest they commit more sins, and consequently, deserve more tormenting in the hell


    19. After this he runs away and returns to his master, where the intense desire to kill himself overtakes him


    20. Sadness overtakes him with the thought this night could possibly end

    21. The midday sensation wonderfully overtakes the crew


    22. In this moment, in this second, a rush of memories overtakes her


    23. She laughs and cries in the same breath as the warm red glow of the fire overtakes them


    24. Fanny, having said her last words, and smiled her last smile, and kissed and been kissed by the penitent Audrey, and having also, in that desire for a good curtain which so frequently overtakes those who part, warmly invited nearly everybody to come and stay with her in Charles Street, felt this comfort acutely


    25. He overtakes you on the hairpin curve, forcing you to brake suddenly


    26. A warm, floaty sensation overtakes his nerves and senses


    27. “As it is with the good man, so with the sinner…the same destiny overtakes all…for the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing” (Ecclesiastes 9:2-5 New International Version)


    28. He is the Conqueror over His servants, and He sends guardians over you, until, when death overtakes one of you, Our envoys take him away, and they never fail


    29. The night overtakes the day, as it pursues it persistently; and the sun, and the moon, and the stars are subservient by His command


    30. Say, "Have you considered? If His punishment overtakes you by night or by day, what part of it will the guilty seek to hasten?"

    31. And death overtakes them


    32. If the reversal is too distracting or the delay so long that boredom overtakes it, she’ll lose her desire and have him beheaded for notetaking


    33. When Werner overhears Frederick’s mother say to a woman, “Oh, the Schwartzenberger crone will be gone by year’s end, then we’ll have the top floor, du wirst schon sehen,” he glances at Frederick, whose smudged eyeglasses have gone opaque in the candlelight, whose makeup looks strange and lewd now, as though it has intensified the bruises rather than concealed them, and a feeling of great uneasiness overtakes him


    34. “About another hour till Admiral Hahlynd overtakes them,” Defiant’s third lieutenant said


    35. At the corner of Avenue A, some men with penlights shout: “No! Not that way! This way!” He can barely hear them over the chanting (Take It Back! Take It Back!) but as the whole crowd surges west, it overtakes him


    36. They are not exempt, however, from fairly sharp declines in market value if insolvency overtakes the system


    37. She felt in her heart a devout and tremulous awe at the thought of the punishment that overtakes men for their sins, and especially of her own sins, and she prayed to God to forgive them all, and her too, and to give them all, and her too, peace and happiness


    38. "We have been very happy, John Carter," she said, "and I thank whatever fate overtakes us that it permits us to die together


    39. In good time, nevertheless, as the ardour of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors


    40. "I agree, I agree with all those arguments, my sweet Elena Ivanovna," I interrupted, striving to express myself with that natural enthusiasm which always overtakes a man when he feels the truth is on his side

    41. "Ole Bill," the omnibus, laden with Cockneys going towards the line, overtakes him


    1. When he is unsuccessful with overtaking this woman, he then goes after the rest of her offspring – those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus


    2. She moaned and thrust herself upward to meet him, her passion overtaking her


    3. I was about ten years old and recollect an Army Sergeant-Major grabbing me by the arm whilst overtaking me to make sure I stayed far enough away for I truly wanted to collect the hand grenade as a trophy


    4. “But you died when I was seven,” she whispered, anger overtaking her


    5. Indeed only after a little more than a hundred steps Hilderich felt cramps and stiffness overtaking his aching body, especially the legs where he put much of his strength to propel himself upwards on the steps that seemed fit only for giants


    6. Hilderich repeated his question, this time shouting, demanding, fury overtaking him despite the parts of his mind that warned him of teetering on a precipice of unfathomable depth, every step reeking with deadly danger:


    7. these inhospitable, but completely natural, reactions about fertility from overtaking your mind and


    8. Yaw: zigzag motion of a vessel carried off its heading by strong, overtaking seas


    9. Miles scrambled to his feet and charged her way, almost overtaking her, but the door closed before he could snatch her


    10. By the end, she can hardly speak or eat, the swelling overtaking the petite features of the woman he loves beyond all things

    11. A shadow was overtaking them


    12. He stared at the house for several minutes from the shelter of a hedge, panic rising in his chest and throat until he could bear it no longer and cycled away, tailbone tickling as if the bats of hell were overtaking him


    13. competitors, we can think of overtaking


    14. Barred from the Shalizah road, however, he had turned to the forbidden route, until news that Conan had not yet reached Afghulistan with his captive had caused him to turn southward and push on recklessly in the hope of overtaking the Cimmerian in the hills


    15. When the guards started back to Jerusalem with Jesus, John Mark attempted to steal out of the shed in order to catch up with the fleeing apostles and disciples; but just as he emerged, one of the last of the returning soldiers who had pursued the fleeing disciples was passing near and, seeing this young man in his linen coat, gave chase, almost overtaking him


    16. He urged on the distressed stallion, for he saw that he was overtaking his prey, yard by yard


    17. I ran down the corridor, overtaking the other passengers, and jumped onto the waiting bus that was taking us to the plane


    18. With each step Sam felt stronger, more positive about overtaking the fugitives


    19. Afraid of the mental illness which was overtaking me with the speed of this insane


    20. Overtaking the vehicles travelling along the road Grailem runs as fast as he can

    21. secrecy overtaking the computer industry-a wave first noticed


    22. Insane hope overtaking her, Tammy started running along the sandy beach, waving her arms and screaming


    23. � She had to close her eyes and concentrate in order to prevent panic from overtaking her


    24. Ben was in the lead, and Dahms quickly passed Sam, but Gaal was steadily overtaking her


    25. He was now clearly overtaking the enemy aircraft, ignoring for the moment the pursuing P-61s, who were being outraced by his Ju 88G


    26. coming sometime without warning- always with an overtaking


    27. With the bitterness of defeat overtaking him, the captain had a last look at his men, dead or dying across the taxiway, then raised his right hand in a flash to grab one of his hand grenades


    28. There was no traffic except for the occasional TIR that would announce its presence with a heart-stopping blast of its double air horns before overtaking us and speeding on out of sight


    29. In the mountains I’ve been forced off the road, less than a foot away from the cliff's edge, by buses that were overtaking each other on the bend


    30. The prosecutor stalked angrily around her table, oblivious to the panic overtaking the room

    31. I heard a voice calling through the arcade: “They’re here! Overtaking the bridge


    32. are incapable of overtaking It


    33. motorcycles and trucks were everywhere, overtaking,


    34. diversification and overtaking pigs in numbers of species


    35. alcohol really such an overtaking substance? She wondered fearfully


    36. keep her emotions from overtaking her


    37. from overtaking her, she feared that her determination to fulfill Rose’s last wish was quickly


    38. Miss Avery begins to back away, due to the shock overtaking her


    39. him made up for lost time and were in the process of overtaking him


    40. c) No overtaking is permitted in the vicinity of road dividers

    41. The wreckage stood as a huge monument to failures of the past, rusted metal and green vegetation overtaking the pathetic, colossal structure


    42. Fred was driving pretty hard and competently, changing gears before tight curves and accelerating smoothly out of them, overtaking slow- moving vehicles with quick bursts of power, all this while comfortably leaning back in his seat, his shoulders relaxed, his big, gnarled hands holding onto the wheel with calm firmness, his eyes professionally scanning the road ahead


    43. You’re driving fast, and overtaking on a corner at high speed is risky


    44. she didn't realize what was overtaking her


    45. So in this story also we see that lust overtaking love to the point of Amnon getting frustrated and ill


    46. the phone, on the PC, in front of the TV and radio, overtaking, adventuring, and endlessly


    47. fall upon’ as in a giant warrior overtaking you with


    48. against the sinking feeling that was overtaking her


    49. I snapped straight up, scientific curiosity overtaking the need for clean clothes


    50. His eyes grew heavy and as much as he fought the weariness that was quickly overtaking him he was soon fast asleep





















    1. ” He led her to his bed and they removed their clothes and climbed in and clung to each other as exhaustion overtook them


    2. Dark overtook him on the North Sentinel Heights Canal


    3. "The pain overtook me, as it often does nowadays, and I couldn't finish the tests


    4. A sudden grin overtook her face - though she knew not why


    5. lorry loaded with BMWs overtook them


    6. Then I thought about seeing Helen and all of a sudden I wasn’t so sure the black moods that had overtook me since Gallipoli were frightening and things seemed to have changed irrevocably forever


    7. I turned away from her my mind in turmoil but my body responding it felt so strange and shyness overtook me


    8. They stayed for many years at the same level whilst juniors (non-white) overtook them


    9. On the one hand, whenever the image that was now permanently burnt into his mind popped into his consciousness again - something that it did with a disabling regularity - a terrible black rage overtook him, and he could think of nothing other than tearing Conrad Hunter’s bowels from his body and making him eat them in front of him


    10. What were they up to? And why? How long before something happened? And what would that be? Was she to be arrested? Panic overtook

    11. However, noble or not in its intentions, I believe that the Disruption was one of the worst events that ever overtook the Kirk in Scotland


    12. His anticipation of what his future might possibly consist, lay in the back of his mind to relish in those moments just before sleep overtook him


    13. 5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army were scattered


    14. The beat of the band soon overtook them


    15. If he overtook her she would have to walk home with him and she was not going to do that


    16. “You’re mine,” he whispered as sleep overtook her


    17. the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him


    18. We arrived a little before dusk, I retrieved the horses, and we rode back until darkness overtook us, and we camped for the night


    19. that something was badly wrong, and raced after Moses, and overtook him as he was


    20. Just before blackness overtook the vision, Virginia thought she saw the shape of a man stepping back through a circle of light, speaking words that were just beyond her hearing…

    21. As the numbing cold and painful lashing of the water drained the strength from those who tried to fight it, a great stillness overtook Virginia


    22. and overtook him as he was leading the Jews away from Egypt, the land of


    23. Virginia closed her eyes and tears slipped out as despair slowly overtook her


    24. Eventually, however, the fun overtook him and


    25. 46 And Laban then rose up and he took his brothers and all his servants, and he went out and pursued Jacob, and he overtook him in mount Gilead


    26. 46 And the eight captains that remained, seeing the strength of Judah, were greatly afraid and they fled, and Judah with his ten men pursued them, and they overtook them and killed them


    27. 13 And he turned to the other two, and note they had fled, and he pursued them, overtook them, struck them and killed them


    28. 23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead


    29. 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob


    30. 9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon

    31. Their two-mile head start had them parked fully on the grassy shoulder in front of an Indian Trading Post when I overtook them a few hundred yards up the road from the NP entrance with its $10 fee


    32. Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the


    33. 22 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan


    34. 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them


    35. journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead


    36. 46 And Laban then rose up and he took his brothers and all his servants and he went out and pursued Jacob and he overtook him in mount Gilead


    37. 46 And the eight captains that remained seeing the strength of Judah were greatly afraid and they fled and Judah with his ten men pursued them and they overtook them and killed them


    38. 13 And he turned to the other two and note they had fled and he pursued them overtook them struck them and killed them


    39. “What?” I asked confused back at her just as the car overtook us


    40. In the run toward its source, a sudden anxiety overtook Moshe

    41. 30 Then Jonathan pursued after them but overtook them not for they were gone over the river Eleutherus


    42. The message repeated itself, each time with less volume and more soothing overtones, until a truly dreamless sleep overtook a very tired body and agitated spirit


    43. “What’s with all this noise around us? I can hardly hear you for it!” Moshe replied as an unaccountable irritation suddenly overtook him


    44. could muster before total exhaustion overtook them


    45. His word overtook them, and they had to admit their defeat


    46. It surged up on our stern, only veering at the last moment, and gradually overtook us, passing to port since our outrigger was to starboard and theirs the opposite


    47. As the fury which had been building throughout the long evening overtook him, all the power concentrated in his hands as they tightened around the Leader’s windpipe


    48. The urge to pull a funny face at his reflection overtook him, with a childish laugh he surmised that like an infant, his emotions were now beyond control


    49. The caustic, electric bolts overtook two more of the black-robed monks


    50. I was about to go back inside when curiosity overtook me









































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    Synonyms for "overtake"

    catch catch up with overtake overcome overpower overwhelm sweep over whelm overhaul pass intercept go after reach

    "overtake" definitions

    catch up with and possibly overtake


    travel past


    overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli