leave undone
Example Sentences
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Could there be so very much amiss in a household where they knew just what to do for one, and just what to leave undone?
From The Crime Doctor by Hornung, Ernest William
He likes to see things orderly; he seldom raises his voice; he is exceedingly deliberate, and while he is deliberating he would do or leave undone many things that he would afterward regret.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.
"I am not going to be taught what I should do or leave undone, least of all by Martha."
From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
Out of two powerful motives, either of which may equally move us to do or leave undone a certain thing, can we infallibly tell which one has ultimately prompted our action?
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
Much, it need not be repeated, has been done for them of late, and admirably done; much also we have found to do, and have been compelled to leave undone still more.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
