At this rate, there is a real danger that deaths will soon overtake births.

Go back to England to live there upon his lands, and wait until old age and death overtook him?

When death overtakes me my heart shall have ceased to beat; but what comes after that I know not.

And second, that death had overtaken the people of the town with astonishing rapidity.

In much less than a minute, the true death had overtaken Lila.

She kept at it from a desire to know when death would overtake her.

They always seem to be surprised when death overtakes them.

Another moment and the whispering death would overtake him.

In fact, everyone hoped that natural death would overtake him before the hangman arrived.

If he did not find it soon, death would surely overtake him as it had all the others.