From the statesman who outruns his convictions rather than break with his party, and who cannot, amid deafening cheers, any longer hear his conscience speak, down to the humblest who fails to confess Christ before hostile men, and therefore by-and-by denies Him, there is not one whose speech and silence have never been in danger of being set to the sympathies of his own little public like a song to music.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
And the wife's grief sometimes far outruns the regular forms of eulogy or regret.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Occasionally it outruns it; occasionally lags behind; and the first sign of its arrival is the cessation of strain.
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson