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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.
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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.
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The frail bateaux, tossing upon the merciless waves of Lake Erie, were overset, driven ashore, and many of them dashed to pieces.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
I put out my hand, but she threw her arms round my neck, kissed me quickly on each cheek, and ran sobbing out of the room, and nearly oversetting Mr Tomplin, who was coming up.
From Patience Wins War in the Works by George Manville Fenn
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
The little boat is fixed firm to the other by two bamboos placed across the great boat, one near each end, and its use is to keep the great boat upright from oversetting.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
I cannot severely blame those who overset Episcopacy for their oversetting, nor those who brought it back for their bringing it back.
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
A cutter usually had channels and mortice-holes to fix legs to prevent oversetting.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
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