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“The guard overset on me, so I spun back inside, and with some pressure by Mel on the backside, it made him step back,” Philon said of Driskel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2018
Because the golden part is brighter, and in the center, it looks overset until you get close to the surface.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2018
We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a man on horseback who broke the hegemony of London and Paris, overset a degenerate regime, achieved a social and political revolution and established a humanitarian tyranny.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doreen's mind was overset by the discovery she had made.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
That was only the oversetting of a chair upstairs.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
He had come near to oversetting her plate.
From The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman
Then Max remembered something about a game of chess, and then of starting up and oversetting the table, with the pieces rattling on the floor.
From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn
At length a tremendous crack of a whip saluted the tympanum of my ear, and I started up broad awake, nearly oversetting the chair on which I reclined—and, lo!
From Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Francis Hindes Groome
And after oversetting part of a snake-fence before we found an entrance, we drove up to the door.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
