oversets

The fierce house-dog, however, will be noticed as bounding through the poultry, and knocking down one luckless hen, he jumps upon his mistress, and almost oversets her also.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

"Yes," I answered, "unless the _balsa_ oversets, when I shall find mail hard to swim in."

The Virgin of the Sun Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Suddenly an elegantly dressed spectator clambers on to the edge of his box, pushes the bust, oversets it.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

It oversets every idea of time, and plays with one's resolutions as the wind with a feather.

Saracinesca 1881

Perhaps, too, the rich blood of the Falernian grape produced a more godlike delirium than the vulgar brandy which oversets the moderns!

Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851

Nay, as we forthwith discover, a certain Calypso-Island detains him at the very outset; and as it were falsifies and oversets his whole reckoning.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

The slightest additional gust of wind often oversets the little sailor and his vessel altogether.

Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match 1835

The breath of a court speedily oversets a thousand objections, and scatters the cobwebs of his brain.

The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804

He does not find, as in Europe, a crowded society, where every place is over-stocked; he does not feel that perpetual collision of parties, that difficulty of beginning, that contention which oversets so many.

Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774

Spanish war, added to the load, almost oversets our most sanguine heroism: and now we have in opportunity of conquering all the world, by being at war with all the world, we seem to doubt a little of our abilities.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757