Lexicographical Neighbors of Outspeeding
Literary usage of Outspeeding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"... Florence outspeeding bruin. Lit Digest 52:334 FS '16 Бель!. -y. E. Gertrude
Reorganization of English in the elementary school. ..."
2. Language Lessons from Literature: Book I-II by Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster (1903)
"... of summit or highest point ? instead of wings in speaking of faith? What word
means ready to answer, or reply ? What is the meaning of outspeeding ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"... life is itself a remarkable illustration of this, and one cannot but feel how
unfortunate was the saying of the poet that " The light-outspeeding ..."
4. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop (1883)
"It cannot conquer folly, — Time-and-space-conquering steam, — And the light-outspeeding
telegraph ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Lo! the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction
abroad; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high! ..."
6. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"... And under the caves, Where the shadowy waves Are as green as the forest's
night:— outspeeding the shark, And the sword-fish dark, Under the ocean foam, ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Electricity darts through telegraphic wires with inconceivable rapidity, far
outspeeding light, and moving 20000000 times faster than the nerve-agent. ..."