outgeneral
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When I met you today I at once knew it was all up with me unless I could outgeneral you—and I think I have.
From The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. R. Naylor
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.
He had spent four hundred dollars in recovering one third of the stolen money, and had suffered the thief to outgeneral him.
From The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. R. Naylor
There were many signs, and I had to be always on the lookout to outgeneral them.
From Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly
From the description it was Berghoff, the spy of a powerful European nation whose ambition it is to outgeneral all other powers on the sea.
From The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam by John Henry Goldfrap
I don't know when I have ever been as comprehensively and pleasurably outgeneraled as I am when I read Martin.
From Time ● Jul. 9, 2011
Outnumbered, outgunned, outgeneraled, and easily outfought, the rebels in Sumatra last week were pushed to the wall.
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Even while the issue remained in doubt, it was evident that the Japanese had outgeneraled the Allies.
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"Big Bill" was seriously extended and outgeneraled by Richards during four smashing sets.
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The Sioux were notably brave and bold and more than once their chiefs had outgeneraled the trained white soldiers that fought them.
From The Story of General Pershing by Everett T.
Out-gunning and outgeneraling the U.S. players at every turn, Sedgman never let either of his opponents get really set, much less launch an attack.
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"The Building Fund" tells the story of the outgeneraling of grasping son and conniving daughter's daughter by a hard old woman of the strong farmer class in the west of Ireland.
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt
The smile was that of the conquering hero, outgeneraling in retreat allied forces outnumbering his small army a thousand times.
From Cupid's Middleman by Edward B. Lent
By the spring of 1942, Slim admits, "we, the Allies, had been outmanoeuvred, outfought, and outgeneralled."
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Cornwallis, who had gone to bed expecting to make short work of Washington in the morning, saw himself fairly outgeneralled.
From The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 by Samuel Adams Drake
Acting on the impulse, they swung confidently along, only to find themselves outgeneralled.
From The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by H. H. (Hugh Hornby) Langton
The great Miami chief Little Turtle, who outgeneralled the Americans at the defeat of St. Clair, used to tell with humorous relish how he once trusted a white man adopted into his tribe.
From Stories Of Ohio by William Dean Howells
The name of the sheriff that he outgeneralled was Walter Cox.
He is a master tactician, and wins most of his matches by outgeneralling the other player.
From The Art of Lawn Tennis by William (Bill) Tatem Tilden