The Marseillois themselves, discouraged with their cold reception, or not liking their new trade of maintaining order so well as their old one of oversetting it, melted away by degrees, and were soon no more seen nor heard of.
In this way, the checks which ought to have acted merely to restrain the violence of either party, might operate as the means of oversetting the constitution which they were intended to preserve.
That was only the oversetting of a chair upstairs.
So real was the scene that he started away from the desk with a loud cry, oversetting his stool, and letting the heavy desk lid fall with a crash.
Cuban, throwing his arms round the sturdy little man, and nearly oversetting him, stool and all, in his fervid embrace.
The islanders in the great Pacific ocean, though they have no large ships, are the most expert boat-sailors in the world, navigating that sea safely with their proas, which they prevent oversetting by various means.
Their boats moved by oars or rather by paddles are, for long voyages, fixed two together by cross bars of wood that keep them at some distance from each other, and so render their oversetting next to impossible.
But there is besides, something in the modern form of our ships that seems as if calculated expressly to allow their oversetting more easily.
Oversetting by sudden flaws of wind, or by carrying sail beyond the bearing.
In one part is a girl tearing the face of a boy for oversetting her barrow; in another, a woman beating a fellow for throwing down her child.
A female grimalkin, enraged at a man oversetting her orange-barrow, is literally tearing his eyes out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oversetting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
