1 The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.
2 My father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful.
3 A boy in Russian dress, desperately waving his arms and bowed down to the ground, overtook her.
4 He took off his skates, and overtook the mother and daughter at the entrance of the gardens.
5 Just as they were going out of the station the station-master overtook Vronsky.
6 Yashvin overtook him with his cap, and led him home, and half an hour later Vronsky had regained his self-possession.
7 A few minutes later the colonel overtook them.
8 They were just going in at the door, talking of the weather, when Stepan Arkadyevitch overtook them.
9 Levin was on the stairs to the way out, and was just feeling in his waistcoat pocket for the number of his overcoat, when the secretary overtook him.
10 The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom.
11 At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded.
12 After dinner, she rushed head long after Anna Mikhaylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room.
13 It looked as if Milka would immediately pounce on the hare, but she overtook him and flew past.
14 Nicholas overtook the first sleigh.
15 He could already see how these men, who looked so small at the foot of the hill, jostled and overtook one another, waving their arms and their sabers in the air.