The party could at any time overtake or Outstep the fugitives, but they contented themselves with pressing steadilly on them, in open order, without firing a shot, occasionally making a spurt, which had the effect of causing the blacks to drop nearly all their spears.
"The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine"
Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine
An hereditary king is but an ordinary person, upon an average, at best; he is nearly sure to be badly educated for business; he is very little likely to have a taste for business; he is solicited from youth by every temptation to pleasure; he probably passed the whole of his youth in the vicious situation of the heir-apparent, who can do nothing because he has no appointed work, and who will be considered almost to Outstep his function if he undertake optional work.
"The English Constitution"
Walter Bagehot
But the risk is rather that she and such as she pressing on in their individual advancement will Outstep the rank and file of their sisters at the present stage while trade unionism among women is still so young a movement, and one which under the most hopeful circumstances will have to fulfill for many years the task of receiving, teaching and assimilating vast numbers of young and quite untrained, in many cases non-English-speaking girls.
"The Trade Union Woman"
Alice Henry