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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Monastery Farm] Reference

The servant who could outwit or outgeneral her did not exist, and the servant who was not afraid of her lasted scant days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

He had spent four hundred dollars in recovering one third of the stolen money, and had suffered the thief to outgeneral him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Monastery Farm] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [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 Author.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schwarzkopf] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — Second Series] Reference

General Lee -- Desertions from his army -- Why Lee could not extricate his army -- His plans revealed to Grant -- Did Grant outgeneral Lee in the retreat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South,] Reference

But that he could outgeneral William, that he could even manage Gospatrick and his intrigues Hereward expected as little as that his own nephews Edwin and Morcar could do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

General Lee, admitted -- was able in Western Virginia to completely outgeneral Lee, on the Tullahoma campaign again demonstrated his ability as the greatest strategic general of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Army of the Cumberland] Reference

Trout informed them all in Whitestown not to disturb that black man, as he could outgeneral them all in law or anything else, as he had been on his farm seven years, and knew him to be honest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America] Reference

The same archduke who, thirty years before, had slipped away from Vienna in his nightgown; with his face blackened, to outwit and outgeneral William the Silent at Brussels, was now -- more successful in his manoeuvres against his imperial brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wall Between] Reference

She knew very well that on this occasion, as on every other where their wits and wishes came in opposition, Sir Robert was always able to outgeneral and overreach him; she therefore resolved to agitate herself as little as possible, and to allow matters to flow on tranquilly, until the crisis -- the moment for action came.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw Gold A Novel] Reference

It didn’t matter that he could buy and sell half the Senate; it didn’t matter that on a battlefield he could outgeneral both halves of the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]