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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
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
We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Those towering castles at stern and prow did but increase the ship's leeway, made her sink too deep in the water, and tended to overset her."
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert
They imagine that at other times he amuses himself in entangling their nets and oversetting their canoes.
From John Rutherford, the White Chief by Craik, George Lillie
Tea had been waiting for some time at the house before Richard Glaire made his appearance—for he had of late insisted upon oversetting the old-fashioned homely customs of his boyhood, and dined late.
From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville
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 Fenn, George Manville
He rushed into the flood just as it was oversetting the helpless victim, and, with a tremendous jerk, threw him clean upon the green bank of the torrent.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
"Your name is M'Keown, sir?" said the lawyer, with that abruptness which so often succeeds in oversetting the balance of a witness's self-possession.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James
