In descending, it is still worse; because there is more hurry, more impatience, on arriving at the end of a journey; and an injudicious descent does not visit its effects upon one but upon both travelers; for unless the person who descends be extremely quick in his motions, his seat flies up before he has quite left it, and oversets him, and the opposite weight, of course, goes plump to the ground,-with as fatal effects as cutting the hammock-strings of a middy's berth."
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
"Yes," I answered, "unless the balsa oversets, when I shall find mail hard to swim in."
"The Virgin of the Sun"
H. R. Haggard
It has been oftentimes remarked that few tragedies which the brain of the novelist has depicted have surpassed in their unnatural and horrible details those enacted in real life, for When headstrong passion gets the reins of reason, The force of Nature, like too strong a gale, For want of ballast, oversets the vessel.
"Strange Pages from Family Papers"
T. F. Thiselton Dyer