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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
Perhaps he knew only that in a second his world was overset and he cast on the mercy of the ogres he saw about him.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
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 Gibbs, George
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 Hunter, John
“My great friend!” exclaimed the Cuban, throwing his arms round the sturdy little man, and nearly oversetting him, stool and all, in his fervid embrace.
From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by Fenn, George Manville
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 Fenn, George Manville
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 Fenn, George Manville
