He seemed to know and feel his master's good spirits, and kept licking my hand at intervals as he bounded up the stairs beside me, and then Outstripping me, he would wait on the landing above me impatiently till I got there, in a hurry to race up the next flight.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
In any case, it was a scheme that would have appealed to him irresistibly and was one full worthy of the brain of "Kitty Quixote," so that he was fast Outstripping even her ingenuity in the matter of detail, when the sudden call of Widow Sprigg fell like a dash of cold water upon their glowing spirits: "Montgomery Sturtevant!
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond
And then the Eskimo ran too, the big ones tumbling over the little ones, and the dogs Outstripping their masters, and all making loud noises according to their kind.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo