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Outride

verb
(past outrode; past part. outridden; pres. part. outriding)
1.
Hang on during a trial of endurance.  Synonyms: last out, ride out, stay.
2.
Ride better, faster, or further than.






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"Outride" Quotes from Famous Books



... anchor firm, Time's swelling billows shall outride, And far beyond the raging storm Shall make ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... flank. They were off like the wind. It is an old saying in the West that newcomers always ride a horse or two to death before they get broken in to the country. They are tempted by the great open spaces and try to outride the horizon, to get to the end of something. Margaret galloped over the level road, and Eric, from behind, saw her long veil fluttering in the wind. It had fluttered just so in his dreams last night and the night before. ...
— The Troll Garden and Selected Stories • Willa Cather

... the bunk-house by adding: "The kid is right. Red could outride most men. I was his pal once, down in Sonora. There ain't a better two-gun artist livin'." And the lean foreman ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... avoiding Coventry and Lichfield, where the royal forces had assembled, but bending west so as to get by unfrequented roads to Stafford, and so on to the main north road along which the Prince was now reported to be marching. Just outride the "Bull and Mouth" her horse had cast a shoe. Leaving her to rest in the ale-house, the Colonel had gone on with the horses to the nearest smithy at Milford. He was quite unaware of the northward movement of troops from Lichfield, and was under the impression that he ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... will sometimes have for a husky, courageous older lad. The second time Bud spoke of him he called him "Forbeszy," and Margaret perceived that here was Bud's model of manhood. Delicate Forbes could outshoot and outride even Jed Brower when he chose, and his courage with cattle was that of a man. Moreover, he was good to the younger boys and wasn't above pitching baseball with them when he had nothing better afoot. It became evident from the general description that Delicate Forbes was not called ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill


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