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  • Cherishing the most fervent hopes, embarked on the waste ocean, we saw with delight the receding shore of Britain, and on the wings of desire outspeeded our well filled sails towards the South.

    The Last Man 2003

  • She had grown so fast and far that she had outspeeded her grace.

    The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

  • Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element.

    Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • She had grown so fast and far that she had outspeeded her grace.

    The Heart's Highway Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • Joan and the rest of us followed it so briskly that we outspeeded our forces and had the English behind us as well as before.

    Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872

  • Cherishing the most fervent hopes, embarked on the waste ocean, we saw with delight the receding shore of Britain, and on the wings of desire outspeeded our well filled sails towards the South.

    I.10 1826

  • Cherishing the most fervent hopes, embarked on the waste ocean, we saw with delight the receding shore of Britain, and on the wings of desire outspeeded our well filled sails towards the South.

    The Last Man 1826

  • Cherishing the most fervent hopes, embarked on the waste ocean, we saw with delight the receding shore of Britain, and on the wings of desire outspeeded our well filled sails towards the South.

    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

  • "[Pavlik] got outspeeded and outboxed by a faster guy," said

    SI.com 2010

  • I think I outspeeded him, and then eventually I made him quit for the first time.

    BoxingScene.com 2009

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