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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.
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We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love, Making that pang endurable, which else Would overset the brain—or break the heart.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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
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
“What!” roared the admiral, rising from his chair, and oversetting his glass of port.
From Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea by Gordon Browne
I know how to drive and poise myself so as to keep my chariot right side up, and I never think of oversetting, I think of winning my race, and always do.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
They imagine that at other times he amuses himself in entangling their nets and oversetting their canoes.
From John Rutherford, the White Chief by George Lillie Craik
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