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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
They found a small boat overset upon a bank of sand; part of your clothes were in it, and they think you were both drowned.”
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
So real was the scene that he started away from the desk with a loud cry, oversetting his stool, and letting the heavy desk lid fall with a crash.
From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake 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
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
Each canoe had a long out-rigger, to prevent them from oversetting.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter
"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 Charles James Lever
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