counterwork

Example Sentences

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To detect and to counterwork this plot was obviously my duty.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

It is an operation that you can counterwork.

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

Let it be to abjure thy malice; to counterwork this hellish stratagem; to turn from me and from my brother, this desolating rage!

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

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

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 Woodgate, W. B.