outgeneral

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Terrence assured him that he would yet aid him to outgeneral the Englishman, and he only wished that he might come into port during their stay.

From Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established by Musick, John R. (John Roy)

Lincoln's friend in Kansas, instead of securing that delegation for him, had suffered the Seward men to outgeneral him, and the prospects were by no means flattering.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.

To outgeneral a dog-fancier was a tribute to his shrewdness; to save two hundred dollars on a single purchase was economy of a high order.

From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Then I saw an elderly gentleman pacing back and forth between two feminine chatterboxes, and trying to outgeneral the two happy people.

From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis

But that he could outgeneral William, that he could even manage Gospatrick and his intrigues Hereward expected as little as that his own nephews Edwin and Morcar could do it.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles