They could move faster than he; there was no possibility of outdistancing them.
"The Electronic Mind Reader"
John Blaine
Naked swords we bore in our hands as we swam, to defend ourselves against the sea-monsters, and we floated together, neither outdistancing the other, for five days, when a storm drove us apart.
"Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race"
Maud Isabel Ebbutt
The man laughed, and said there would be no drowning, and that they had a splendid captain, and were outdistancing the submarine hand over fist.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim