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We resolve now and here to outgeneral circumstances.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

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

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 William Still

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 Charles Kingsley

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

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

"Big Bill" was seriously extended and outgeneraled by Richards during four smashing sets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even while the issue remained in doubt, it was evident that the Japanese had outgeneraled the Allies.

From Time Magazine Archive

At every turn King outgeneraled Montgomery's white officials.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this, however, he was outgeneraled by Tromp, who succeeded in taking the sea with the greatest of all Dutch fleets, 120 men of war.

From A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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."

From Time Magazine Archive

Extravagant stories were told of the force of the enemy: Lee's whole army was advancing; he had outgeneralled Grant; he had sixty thousand men across the Potomac; Washington and Baltimore were to be captured.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

In the contest that followed Toussaint at first outgeneralled Rochambeau and defeated him with severe loss.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Charles Morris

Laura makes her adieus coldly, feeling outgeneralled by his evident determination not to be put down.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas

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

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