counterwork
Example Sentences
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Would’st thou receive them, other thoughts there are, On angel-wing, descending from above, 1001 Which these, with art divine, would counterwork, And form celestial armour for thy peace.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
At first he will be repeatedly putting more force on one hand than on another, and will have to rectify his course by counterwork with the neglected hand.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
Grote wrote his history of Greece to counterwork the party bias of Mitford.
From Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
I proceeded to the house of the chief magistrate the instant I arrived, that I might give no time to my adversary to counterwork my proceeding.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
The cardinal's disappointment strongly inclined him to counterwork the amorous projects of his rival.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
