counterwork
Example Sentences
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Let it be to abjure thy malice; to counterwork this hellish stratagem; to turn from me and from my brother this desolating rage!
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Julian Hawthorne
By this time the Syracusan counterwork had almost passed the end of the Athenian wall, and if it were carried a few yards further, the siege of Syracuse would be brought to a standstill.
From Stories from Thucydides by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
Plato tried to counterwork this mischief, but in vain.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
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
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
