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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
"Not so much of your noise," Captain Dove commanded, and, suddenly, reopening the door, all but overset himself in accomplishing a hasty kick, which elicited a loud yelp from without.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
Then oversetting the vessel, and arranging in due order the unboiled rice condiments, clarified butter, and the requisites, he scatters tila, while the priests recite “Thrice did Vishnu step, &c.”
He was not good enough a swimmer to try any tricks such as oversetting the canoe, not when Thorvald was an expert who could easily finish off a fumbling opponent.
From Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton
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
Wilhelm and the three others now appeared with Otto; the boat was near oversetting as they brought him into it.
From O. T. a Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
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
