The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.

But the king, who was not to be easily deceived, had countermined all Wallenstein's designs.

Graceless Private, in evening dress, countermines the Colonel's forces and routs them, wading deeper than before in the exhilarating surf of love, hand in hand with ESTELLE.

O, why did Andrew Fuller quit the high vantage ground of notorious facts, plain durable common sense, and express Scripture, to delve in the dark in order to countermine mines under a spot, on which he had no business to have wall, tent, temple, or even standing-ground!

Perhaps she fancied she had countermined her opponents, and so felt secure.