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The freedom we say we cherish is, yet again, worsting entrenched despots of the right, the left and the lunatic.

Libya: Gaddafi's cronies must desert or be damned | Observer editorial 2011

Lindsay Lohan vehicle I Know Who Killed Me earned a whopping eight “Razzies,” besting (or would that be worsting?)

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Leosthenes gained great reputation by worsting the Boeotians in battle, and driving

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

After worsting the Germans in the head-on Materialschlacht at Kursk, the Russians planned three separate secondary offensives which had the purpose of keeping the German reserves dispersed, together with the usual opportunistic and ill-defined aim of picking up any ground that was going if a weak spot should be discovered.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Dorn -- after worsting them in a hot fight on the 3d, and driving them into these lines, next day attacked the defenses themselves and was driven back.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

Ah, Julia remembered now, and with the recollection of the principal's words came the means of worsting Grace

Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

Him he ordered to be dragged from his seat in the arena, and matched with a gladiator in light armour, and afterwards with another completely armed; and upon his worsting them both, commanded him forthwith to be bound, to be led clothed in rags up and down the streets of the city, and, after being exhibited in that plight to the women, to be then butchered.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Him he ordered to be dragged from his seat in the arena, and matched with a gladiator in light armour, and afterwards with another completely armed; and upon his worsting them both, commanded him forthwith to be bound, to be led clothed in rags up and down the streets of the city, and, after being exhibited in that plight to the women, to be then butchered.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

We read of one gladiator worsting hundreds of other gladiators in the arena of the Colosseum to the joy of the people, who got extremely excited as to whether the fight had been a sporting one, and whether they should have the defeated gladiator killed or let him go: thumbs up or thumbs down!

Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Stephen Graham 1929

And yet he was a suitor, as he once admitted to us via our jesting, for the hand of the much-buffeted Ida; and, as I learned later in the same year, he did finally succeed in marrying her, thus worsting the aged and no doubt much more skilful Wilkens.

Ida Hauchawout 1923