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Attempts were made the same night both to cut it down and to undermine it, but without effect.
Even if it should be undermined by the flood, and carried away, we might stick in the branches.
Every moment flames crept from another undermined section of the brush pile, but every moment counted.
At length the fortress, undermined on all sides, was ready to fall to pieces at the first signal.
He was undermining his health; it was imperative that he should apply his mind to some regular pursuit.
The same sort of open-handed hospitality which has ruined so many Poles has also here undermined many fortunes.
This is but a single instance of the manner in which moral feeling is undermined in both parties.
Let us punish by death any who come among us and seek to undermine us by fantastic stories.
In another point William directly helped to undermine his own authority and the independence of his kingdom.
Her words, of course, could not have turned him, but her fears might have undermined his self-confidence.
"We must undermine the gate, O'Brien; we must pull up the pavement until we can creep under."
He soon comprehended that a revolution in ideas must undermine institutions, unless institutions modelled themselves on the new ideas.
It was philosophy that first undermined established creeds and then led to the pursuit of new ones.
His health, undermined by his constant labors, broke down in 1839, and he was ordered to travel.
On this point there was continual variance: he praised my modesty, and sought to undermine my resolution.
I charged them with a systematic endeavor to undermine the constitution in violation of the law of the land.
In many places where the bank has been undermined these layers may be counted by the hundred.
The palace, being in the immediate path of the torrent, was undermined and overthrown by its force.
It begins to undermine the foundations of her faith in what used to seem the essential truth of things.
How could his lordship be sure that undermining would crack his walls till he had tried it?
Ashby, unfortunately, was condemned and huge sections of its walls and towers were undermined and pulled down.
No man has raised you up more foes than this wretch, who undermines your security instead of protecting it.
They were secretly undermining the government, and was the government to lie down and admit its helplessness?
Your children are of the same faith: there is little fear, then, that I should seek to undermine it.
It's only rats that consume the food and undermine the foundations of the house that shelters them.
To say that the book had undermined his convictions or altered his outlook on life would be an exaggeration.
Paul, that from that moment the blessing of doubt was at work in his, undermining prison walls.
This unfits them for taking a useful part in the national life, and tends to undermine their morals.
By the side of the wall, with vigorous strokes, he commenced digging, with the intention of undermining it.
Titus is my friend, unless he suspects me as coming to undermine his better friend, the pretty Herod.
I contend that, without a word said, this bill does directly undermine my powers of initiative and independence.
The death of a favorite daughter preyed upon his mind, and the cares of government undermined his constitution.
Anything that has a tendency to undermine the health, repeated sufficiently often, will ultimately cause a complete breakdown.
It kept on rising until at two o'clock it first began breaking over the dam and undermining it.
It attacks piles sunken to support structures, and undermines them to such a degree that they eventually fall.
The hut was still standing, but the bank was undermined, and the little bridge carried away.
They would be liable, at any time, to be undermined and overthrown by agencies under their own eyes.
He had never been any too strong mentally, and the life he lived had undermined his physical strength.
They looked dangerous, and it was thought they would try to undermine our trenches and blow us up.
Such a building could not be battered down, and at best it could only be injured by undermining.
It took years for the disease to undermine his strength and reach the vital processes of his system.
The physicians asserted that he might have recovered if grief had not undermined his constitution, once so robust.
Still she was perfectly conscious of a feeling of uneasiness, of something which was already undermining the edifice.
Others again objected to any public provision of meals on the ground that it would undermine parental responsibility.
What is against him, he disregards until he has discovered it has undermined him, and all goes together.
A single dose is sufficient; which produces upon its administration no sensible effect, but gradually undermines the health.
Every year great numbers of trees that line the river bank are undermined and fall into the stream.
Richardson, fortunately, did not live to see the undermining of the tradition he had founded and almost established.
When he realized that this was undermining his own case, he began taking advice from a white lawyer.
Unconsciously a broader philosophy had slowly been undermining his position, and all was ready for the fall.
It took some time to undermine Elizabeth's confidence in the earl, having previously had many proofs of his loyalty.
The dominant classes in Germany also found that their power was being undermined by the growing industrialization.
Morality was undermined, law trodden under foot, duty neglected, justice violated, the promptings of good sense disregarded.
Science makes no attempt to undermine religion, but is unconsciously laying a broader foundation on which religion may stand.
If she had loved him, and he had seemed not to desire her, Sally's happiness would have been undermined.
One felt that in undermining its joys one was making a breach in the defenses of an ancient hypocrisy.
How if I formed my foundation upon this circumstance, and in the meantime the Prince was undermining my edifice?
This undermines all government, saps the foundations of all authority, shakes the very pillars of the State.
That Cornish coast was undermined with caverns, yet there was not one for her to drop into.
"Yes," said she, "but I had, and your men have undermined my smoke house and took all I had."
In places even late village sites, in others burials, were witnessed being undermined by the river or the sea.
The pulmonary complaint which had been undermining his life, now made every day the most alarming progress.
From time to time they are relieved by fresh workers until the foundations of the wall are deeply undermined.
Don't you know the story of the gentleman who undermined his influence by associating with his inferiors?
Grasp the Crusades, and you comprehend one of the forces which undermined the institutions of the Middle Ages.
It killed him at last, twenty years before his time, sapping his splendid vitality, undermining his iron constitution.
The basis of his Conservatism was always the danger of undermining a system which had answered so well.
I'm looking to you to find or create enough evidence so that, when I'm ready, we can undermine Drummer's reputation.
Then we decided to undermine it, and three men set to work at the weakest corner this afternoon.
The demographic portion of this study has added to the undermining of the frontier myth of the Scotch-Irish.
He saw and learned many strange things, but was not undermined by vice because he unconsciously preferred decency.
The danger was they could have completely undermined the perimeter and come in from all sides at once.
Of late, he realized, there most certainly had developed a plot to undermine his health by constant frustrations.
We are finite branded and content, except during the shrill, undermining moments when the orchestra is tuning up.
I told you that the Prefect had purposely let the King starve, in order to undermine his health.
The government will have to undertake them, if it is anxious not to undermine the very foundation of its existence.
His constitution was undermined, he could no longer take horse exercise, and his excesses told upon him rapidly.
Its power, however, which had been silently undermined, existed no longer except in the prestige of those recollections.
Rock covering this nest has been undermined by a mole tunnel, and many nearby rocks are undermined also.
His constitution was undermined by the reckless, wild life he had led, and he died not long after.
By such arbitrary and violent proceedings, however, he is himself undermining the very foundation of his own power.
She knew he was so deliberately cool and slow just to keep Valerie in suspense and to undermine her courage.
It is easy to understand that an insect which undermines land in this way must cause great damage to cultivation.
Pitt had acted with mischievous views; for they who were incapable of great views, were excellent in undermining.
That it is a real crime, because it helps to undermine the consumers' health, I shall demonstrate in this chapter.
I fear my many misfortunes are rapidly undermining my health, and sometimes I sigh for Death and Oblivion.
An hour or more of intermittent firing passed in the suspense of listening to a trickle of water undermining a dam.
After the coal is undermined, he shall, before shooting the coal, properly post the roof of his working place.
Your little lecture was enough to ruin your career in any place you try to run to, if you undermine Superman.
Mill was thus the most prominent thinker of a time in which old systems of thought were being undermined.
He determined, therefore, by a deeply laid plan, to undermine in secret, that which he dared not attack openly.
In his estimation the serious point was the undermining of authority, the criminal dream of living without a master.
The rats undermine the walls to get at the grain, and from time to time a building gives way.
One of that bunch down there that's trying to undermine the best government on the face of the earth.
Many of these wrongs came to Nicholas's notice; and he came to hate the system, and tried to undermine it.
They discovered that they had been right in suspecting that the massive columns had been undermined by blasting.
He fears that acquired characters may not be inherited, in which case the foundation of his whole philosophy is undermined!
For years the propaganda for undermining the bases of our empire has been carried on in the name of Pan-Slavism.
I have told you before, and I tell you now, your vices are undermining the foundations of this great empire.
Hunger knows little discipline, and with temporary loss of discipline the morals of the troops had been undermined.