Deirdre wondered how it would fare with Conal then, whether McNab would outwit him.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
No one can doubt that in more than in outward incident his novels were autobiographical; that also he drew upon the resources of his personal history for some of the less usual and partly religious frames of mind in which his "Heroes," each in his own way, outwit the apparently ugly intentions of destiny towards themselves.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Take care, Master Jack; I shall outwit you yet.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice