Thus loaded down, we took our constitutional about the post, andoutwitted the elements, which at first bade fair to keep us perpetually housed.
The spectators rushed in, and the General was outwitted by his artful parent and obliged to explain the situation.
It was either adoption, deception, or execution, and the future queen outwitted all their traps and inventions until Mary passed on, and Elizabeth took her place on the throne.
The Regent subsequently declared war and outwitted the British designs (so it is said) on Zealand.
The lieutenant, meantime, fancied that he had outwitted the priest, and continued with the greatest energy to prosecute the work he had commenced.
He will be rather astonished if he finds that he has been outwitted by a straightforward, honest sailor.
But those who knew him intimately declare that his success with the Powers depended more on the way they outwitted each other than on his skill as a diplomatist.
Essad, however, outwittedthe Young Turks as easily as he later outwitted the British Foreign Office.
Napoleon, meantime, had posted his divisions so as to watch the chief passages of the Saale, and expected, in confidence, the assault of his outwitted opponent.
France, within the borders of which the Duke of Brunswick was outwitted by Dumouriez in 1792.
He has often been heard to swear terribly over that great disappointment, and regret that he did not run his sword through the body of the daring boy who had outwitted him.
Paul was not a little surprised to hear that his childish exploit had been heard of here, and that the robber chief he had outwitted was the real leader of the band some members of which he had slain the previous day.
And the corroding part of it was that he had been outwitted by a woman, that he was being defied by a physical weakling, a slender-limbed thing of ribbons and laces whose back he could bend and break across his great knee.
She had posed at the Waldorf as a trained nurse, in that case, and had met him and held him off and outwitted him at every turn.
And yet he was aware that she had outwitted him and gained his secret.
We trusted the sheriff last night, and he outwitted us; we must not trust him again.
Nevertheless, it was the fate of this great man to be often deceived by the friends whom he trusted, although never to be outwitted by his enemies.
He was neveroutwitted by Philip, or Granvelle, or Don John, or Alexander of Parma.
The man who killed you, my lad, and the man who outwitted me, shall be found and punished, or Van Vernet will have lost his skill!
So," he muttered, turning sullenly away, "he thinks he has outwitted me.
Oh, you have outwitted me," he said bitterly, "but you will never be able to prove it was not Warburton who personated the Sailor that night.
You proved that, to my satisfaction, when you did what no one has ever done before--outwitted a Mars' rocket security alert system by concealing yourself in a cybernetic robot.
Why give anyone who might have outwitted every screening precaution the idea that I might be a man apart, with so big a job awaiting me on Mars that getting started on it without delay was damned important to me.
The whole of Paris went after them, but by taking the only road where there was no telegraph, they completely outwitted the police.
Occasionally, however, Napoleon himself was outwitted by the cunning of the villains in his employment.
Only on one occasion is it reported that the shrewd Yorkshireman was outwitted in a bargain.
It is a point in the education of parents that they should learn to apprehend humbly the compliment of being outwitted by their own offspring.
She was born to it," Beppo remarked, to extenuate his outwitted cunning, when he found each door of the room fast against him.
I think, Lady Blakeney," he added drily and making her an ironical bow, "that your humble servant hath outwitted the elusive hero at last.
In another twenty-four hours he would hold the man completely in his power who had so boldly outwitted him last year; to-night he would sleep in peace: an entire city was guarding the precious hostage.
But with all these precautions, Cleopatra outwitted them.
It was no wonder that the statesmen whom she outwitted held Elizabeth almost to the last to be little more than a frivolous woman.
Had Elizabeth written the story of her reign, she would have prided herself, not on the triumph of England or the ruin of Spain, but on the skill with which she had hoodwinked and outwitted every statesman in Europe during fifty years.
Sostratus seemingly obeyed, but he outwitted the haughty monarch.
The survivors of the outwitted Maoris turned and fled, and the clever Pakeha was picked up and carried safely on board.
There, in June, 1869, he outwitted a party of militia-men by making his men enter their camp, pretending to be friendlies.
Alone she had fought these fiends and outwitted them for--how long was it?
You can model a steam-engine or mend a doll, and you outwitted me, and gave me fourteen years.
So they parted good friends; but when he retailed the result to Julia Clifford she shook her head, and said the old fox had outwitted him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outwitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
