How To Use Outgeneral In A Sentence
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My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall.
XII. Essays. Manners. 1844
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For two or three days and nights they managed to outgeneral all their adversaries, and succeeded bravely in making the best of their way to a Free State.
The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Auth
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But then Broussard would come back to the real business of the matter -- outgeneralling
Betty at Fort Blizzard
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Three years had now gone by since Metellus Pius and his eight legions had arrived in Further Spain, three years which had seen Sertorius outgeneral and outthink him.
Fortune's Favorites
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He had spent four hundred dollars in recovering one third of the stolen money, and had suffered the thief to outgeneral him.
The Mystery of Monastery Farm
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But the British were outnumbered, outgeneraled and outmaneuvered.
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They had seen those young gladiators from the rival towns lock horns, and struggle excitedly for supremacy upon the flat gridiron marked stretch of ground, cheering for one or the other side without prejudice, as their fancy chanced to dictate; but that was not like feeling the brunt of a rush, or trying to outgeneral a swiftly running player with the ball, heading for a touchdown.
Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums
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Before he came to us De Malet was military commandant at Oran, and it was there that he did one of his best strokes -- outgeneralling a camel-driver from Tangier, one of those thorough-paced Moorish rascals of whom the saying goes, 'Two Maltese to a Jew, and three Jews to a
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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The note she had mailed to her niece was the first advance she had made toward any human being within her memory; and this was not the cry of a dependent but rather the first link in a plot to outgeneral circumstances and place the future within her own control.
The Wall Between
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He took over just before the first major offensive in 1950 and was outgeneralled.
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A small number of sober ones were to be seen on deck pacing restlessly back and forth, for the ruthless mosquito was distinctly on evidence, and threatened to outgeneral the quiet ones, if not the orchestra and the hilarious dancers.
A Woman who went to Alaska
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The servant who could outwit or outgeneral her did not exist, and the servant who was not afraid of her lasted scant days.
Fortune's Favorites
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He is a master tactician, and wins most of his matches by outgeneralling the other player.
The Art of Lawn Tennis
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But at present, for the reasons already stated, it is almost unknown in the cattle country; and the ranchman who loves sport must try still-huntingand by still-hunting is meant pretty much every kind of chase where a single man, unaided by a dog, and almost always on foot, outgenerals a deer and kills it with the rifle.
V. The Black-Tail Deer
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And there I stuck till "stables" sounded, watching the affable sergeant outgeneral his opponents, and noting with some amusement the sulky look that grew more intensified on the heavy face of Hicks (as they called the man who had favored me with that peculiar stare) when Goodell finessed him out of two or three generous-sized pots.
Raw Gold A Novel
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The Surveyor at the front rank of tax assessment may have been outgeneralled by a small but active body of higher civil servants and interested industrialists.
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He had outgeneralled him, outfought him, outpointed him.
A PIECE OF STEAK
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The truth be told, for the first time in the war he was simply outgeneraled by his opponent and he utterly failed to manage effectively his subordinate commanders over the course of the three-day battle.
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But now I wondered whether Cheney had succumbed to the phenomenon I'd observed among some secretaries of the Army: put a civilian in charge of professional military men and before long he's no longer satisfied with setting policy but wants to outgeneral the generals.
Schwarzkopf
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When I met you today I at once knew it was all up with me unless I could outgeneral you -- and I think I have.
The Mystery of Monastery Farm
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As John Adams would wryly say later, ‘In general, our generals were outgeneralled.’
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Whether he was capable of outgeneralling Alexander Farnese or no, will be better seen, perhaps, in subsequent chapters; but there is no doubt that he was reasonable enough in thinking, at that juncture, that a hard campaign rather than a "merchant's brokerage" was required to obtain an honourable peace.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c
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Tomyris, the Scythian queen, after the defeat of the army under the command of her son, Spargopises, took the field in person, and outgeneralling the Persian king,
The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She P