Usa "overset" in una frase
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1. He spoke with the diffidence of a man who knew how slight a thing would overset the delicate organisation of the mind, and yet with the confidence of a man who had slowly won his assurance out of personal endurance and distress
2. In a manner, not easily understood, the whole quantity of powder under the large glass instantly exploded with an astounding report; but the glass was not exploded—it was merely thrown up a little; in its fall it was shattered, and broke a glass which it hit, but no fragment was projected, and none of the other contiguous tubes and glasses were even overset, nor were any of a large audience, and some of them very near, even scratched; but the plank, one and a half inch thick, on which the powder lay, had a hole blown quite through, almost as large as the palm of one's hand
3. While nearly every other Government of Europe has been overset, hers yet rides out the storm
4. Lest storms should overset the leaning pile