179 collocations for undoing

It's nothing to you; you even encourage" "'Pon my soul" But Brother Paul struck in with an impassioned earnestness: "We spend a life-time making Christians of these people; and such as you come here, and in a week undo the work of years.

As he and Mac came out, Andrew was undoing the last fastening that held the canvas to the stakes.

to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?'

At last I gave him a shilling through the crack of the boards, and vowed I wouldn't say who'd done it, and then he undid the door.

That you'll undo that Knot, that ties us two.

It ought to be the mother's hour; the mother's opportunity to undo any mischief the day may have done, to forestall any mischief the morrow may threaten.

He is never tiresome as Chapman is, who, when he has said a fine thing, seems often to set himself to undo the effect.

When we are firmly of opinion that grave wrong has been done us and when after an appeal to the highest authority we fail to secure redress, there must be some power available to us for undoing the wrong.

The big, awkward, ill-favoured old man stood with his disproportionately long arms hanging by his sides, staring at her, unaware that his presence half undid the good the leaping flames were doing her.

We cannot undo the past.

I only know that I cannot do the things I would do, and that I can never undo the evil I have done.

At the end of the unaltered play of Lear, there is a beautiful example of poetic painting; the old King is introduced as dying from grief for the loss of Cordelia; at this crisis, Shakespear, conceiving the robe of the king to be held together by a clasp, represents him as only saying to an attendant courtier in a faint voice, "Pray, Sir, undo this button,thank you, Sir," and dies.

The priest had said nothing; but divining what Mac would be at, he helped him to undo the raw-hide lashing, and when Kaviak was withdrawn he wrapped one of the lighter fur things round him.

I am at the door, and, in a mechanical way, I watch my hand go forward, to undo the topmost bolt.

I would not undo the deed we have done so long as you are content.

Miserable wretches, to fat and enrich ourselves, we care not how we get it, Quocunque modo rem; how many thousands we undo, whom we oppress, by whose ruin and downfall we arise, whom we injure, fatherless children, widows, common societies, to satisfy our own private lust.

" The children looked at the knapsack with interest, the girl's fingers tingling to undo the straps of it.

But, with few words, Gemmell got his patient back to the chairs, and proceeded to undo the bandages that were round his ankle.

Nicholas wouldn't let the Boy undo his pack.

"I never noticed that forgiving things undid the harm any; butyesoh, of course I forgive you.

Eleonora Doe not looke on me; turne those eyes away, They would betray thee to thy sorrow; or Lett me by parting carry along with me That which to know undoes thee.

As it was, we undid a binding quickly and no damage was done.

I was the last to embark; then I undid the cord.

"The Holy Father who succeeds him may not undo his acts of mercy?" "Yes, yes, it is true," Santorio assented, waiting eagerly for the sequence.

He was watching her through his great bone-rimmed spectacles, and she could see the knuckles of his bony hands, just above the top of the table, fidgeting, fidgeting, fidgeting, till she wondered if there existed another set of fingers in the world which could undo the knots his lean ones made in that tiresome piece of string.

179 collocations for  undoing