outgeneral

Example Sentences

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We resolve now and here to outgeneral circumstances.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

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.

There were many signs, and I had to be always on the lookout to outgeneral them.

From Death Valley in '49 by Manly, William Lewis

For two or three days and nights they managed to outgeneral all their adversaries, and succeeded bravely in making the best of their way to a Free State.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William

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