counterwork

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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 Hawthorne, Julian

He is bound in these reports and audiences, not to counterwork the Cabinet; not to divide it; not to undermine the position of any of his colleagues in the Royal favor.

From Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists by Froude, James Anthony

How shall I counterwork his plots or detect his coadjutor?

From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Hawthorne, Julian

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 Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

His case, he feared, was too sure to prove a sorrowful one, for he knew not how to counterwork their malevolence.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas