counterwork

Example Sentences

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That gift makes anything believable, reasonable, possible, rather than that He should spare not His own Son, and then should counterwork His own act by sending the world anything but good.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

It is an operation that you can counterwork.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

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)

He has set himself to counterwork the machinations of this man, who had menaced destruction to all that is dear to me, and whose cunning had surmounted every human impediment.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

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