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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
The weight nearly overset the light skiff; but, bending her body to the oars, she righted it again.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
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 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
Then Fay started up, oversetting the puppies one over another, radiant and breathless.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
Renwick's furious rush brought them with a thud against the wall, where they fell, oversetting a table to the floor.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
I remembered that savage nations made use of an out-rigger, to prevent their canoe oversetting, and this I determined to add to my work.
From The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss
