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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
In this romping, her long hair got loose, and floated round the group; the chair overset; and Aurelia, inwardly indignant at such rioting, arose in great vexation.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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 Groome, Francis Hindes
After they had gone some 400 miles, however, their journey by the river came to a sudden end by the oversetting of their canoe, and the loss of almost all their equipments.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
“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 Browne, Gordon
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 Fenn, George Manville
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 Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
