But I know they can outpace us.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Let all this, however, by no means be construed into meaning that the intellectual consciousness must be starved, or its growth arrested, for fear lest it outpace the moral consciousness.
"Wisdom and Destiny"
Maurice Maeterlinck
He could outpace the safe-guarding mail, save water-and take the chance of being shot in the back from the forward vestibule of the Naught-seven when he had gained lead enough to make a main-line stop safe for the men behind him.
"The Grafters"
Francis Lynde