Spanish successes in Chile and civil war in Argentina delayed for years his overmatching the Spanish naval power on the Pacific.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
Yet all night from Cole's Hill I saw the dark clouds to seaward, lingering there and refusing to be driven completely away, and in the gray of dawn the morning star rose out of them, overmatching with its clear light that of the Gurnet which shone from the murk of their depths below.
"Old Plymouth Trails"
Winthrop Packard
Here he bought laces and new church vestments for his opponents, the ecclesiastics; there he smuggled through an enemy's territory, to some prince, arms and implements of war; then he guided and accompanied a large transport of leather from the interior of Russia to the fair of Leipzig, he alone being capable by flattery, money, and brandy, of overmatching the covetousness of the Sclave nobles.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II."
Gustav Freytag