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If that were so, did it not lie out far beyond every fact in life, include and control them all, as the great truth of gravitation outlies and embraces the physical universe?

From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt

Next morning showed us to port the Cone of Maritimo: it outlies Marsala, whose wine caused the blinding of Polyphemus, and since that time has brought on many an attack of liver.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Searching the pine grove and the scrubby country that outlies it, I found all stages of pine growth, from the gnarled patriarch four feet in diameter at the butt to the germinating seedling.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

There were fragments of grey granite, but not in situ; all had been washed from the continent, where it outlies all other formations.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir