When we halted, as we occasionally did, though sometimes the halts seemed ages apart, he would join in the conversation, as would Ghak the Hairy One, he who was chained just ahead of Dian the Beautiful.
He tried to get one of the Sagoths to move the girl up ahead of him in the slave gang, but the fellow only poked him with his spear and told him that he had selected the girl for his own property--that he would buy her from the Mahars as soon as they reached Phutra.
At the Earths Core
"Man is the boss because he's got the head that thinks," Collins preached the lesson; "and he's just got to make his head boss his body, that's all, so that he can think one thought ahead of the animal, and act one act ahead.
Nor, because it came up slowly, and because Collins had anticipated the yawn by being one thought ahead of Hannibal in Hannibal's own brain, was the nose rapped.
Michael Brother of Jerry
There remained only one obstacle, the most difficult; if he could cross it
ahead of the others he would come in first.
Anna Karenina
But he is trying to get
ahead of me, which may account for my feeling."
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders
The ape-man, far
ahead of him, groped his way along the rocky passage, until he came to the ancient wooden door.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
After that it was plain sailing, though as far as I could know, there might be most anything ahead of us, and my nerves strained to the snapping-point every instant.
The Land That Time Forgot
As we raced along the coast for one of those seem-ingly interminable periods that may draw hours into eternities where the labor is soul-searing and there is no way to measure time, I saw what I took for the opening to a bay or the mouth of a great river a short distance
ahead of us.
Pellucidar
He felt they must be close ahead of him now, and, with a little thrill of expectation, he leaped rapidly forward ahead of the pack.
Thus it was that, though he had put out upon the river but a short time subsequent to the girl, yet she had reached the bay fully two hours ahead of him.
The Beasts of Tarzan
"The mail is only a mile or two ahead of us; that's one reason why we have to go so slowly.
"The boat train's just ahead of us, sir," he announced.
The Vanished Messenger
"I got up at four o'clock, and came on with all speed, full two or three hours
ahead of them, if they start at the time they planned.
Uncle Toms Cabin