Outsit

Well, at least he did not outlive his “nemesis”, whom he had managed outsit in the House, Margaret Thatcher. ❋ Helen (2005)

In the past, his most usual strategy had been to outsit the enemy. ❋ Blish, James (1957)

Or, perhaps that gentleman was only a pretext, and the young man's experienced eye had read that any attempt to outsit the learned assistant editor was foredoomed to failure. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)

Did he outsit the maids and men around his hearth and watch the dying fire with no other companions than his sleeping dogs, fancy placed a scar-let-cloaked figure on the cushion at his feet and raised at his knee a face of sweetest friendliness, whose flower-blue eyes brightened or gloomed in response to his lightest mood ... ❋ Unknown (1893)

Yet there are tourists who cannot outsit one performance, and have no desire to attend a second. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The two men pretended meanwhile for half an hour to outsit each other conveniently; and the end -- at that rate -- might have been distant had not the tension in some degree yielded to the arrival of a friend of M. de ❋ Henry James (1879)

Dacier could allow Mr. Hepburn to outsit him; and he left them, proud of his absolute confidence in her. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

They both tarried so long, "added Johnson, with a laugh," that I was fain to marvel if each were essaying to outsit the other; but if so, ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

No government will take him at his own, or rather his wife's extravagant, valuation; and betwixt his indecision and her insolence, from all I can guess, he will outsit his market, and be had cheap when no one will bid for him. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

No government will take him at his own, or rather his wife’s extravagant, valuation; and betwixt his indecision and her insolence, from all I can guess, he will outsit his market, and be had cheap when no one will bid for him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But you're still a youngster; I'm betting I can outsit you. "\par ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1973)

He was seated by his table with a new pen in his hand, a quire of clean paper before him, looking with an abstracted and melancholy face at two gentlemen who were silently lounging, much at their ease, in one corner of the room, each puffing a segar Determined to outsit these gentry, I remained till half after one, and left them in a most lively and wakeful humour.) ❋ Unknown (1847)