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Well, at least he did not outlive his “nemesis”, whom he had managed outsit in the House, Margaret Thatcher.

So what are we to make of Edward Heath? Helen 2005

In the past, his most usual strategy had been to outsit the enemy.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

Or, perhaps that gentleman was only a pretext, and the young man's experienced eye had read that any attempt to outsit the learned assistant editor was foredoomed to failure.

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

Did he outsit the maids and men around his hearth and watch the dying fire with no other companions than his sleeping dogs, fancy placed a scar-let-cloaked figure on the cushion at his feet and raised at his knee a face of sweetest friendliness, whose flower-blue eyes brightened or gloomed in response to his lightest mood ...

The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893

Yet there are tourists who cannot outsit one performance, and have no desire to attend a second.

Six Months in Mexico 1888

The two men pretended meanwhile for half an hour to outsit each other conveniently; and the end -- at that rate -- might have been distant had not the tension in some degree yielded to the arrival of a friend of M. de

Madame De Mauves Henry James 1879

Dacier could allow Mr. Hepburn to outsit him; and he left them, proud of his absolute confidence in her.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

Dacier could allow Mr. Hepburn to outsit him; and he left them, proud of his absolute confidence in her.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

Dacier could allow Mr. Hepburn to outsit him; and he left them, proud of his absolute confidence in her.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

They both tarried so long, "added Johnson, with a laugh," that I was fain to marvel if each were essaying to outsit the other; but if so,

The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864