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.

The springing of their countermine, he found, was no deliverance.

My schemes thus nightly countermines?' Incensed, he cries: 'this very hour This wretch shall bleed beneath my power.'

"Can we countermine?" The young Engineer took the place of Major Dewes.

All that night Luffe superintended the digging of the countermine, while Dewes made ready for the sortie.

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!

He sees it in the dissatisfied look, and reluctant air and unwilling movement; the constrained strokes of labor, the drawling tones, the slow hearing, the feigned stupidity, the sham pains and sickness, the short memory; and he feels it every hour, in innumerable forms, frustrating his designs by a ceaseless though perhaps invisible countermining.

He sees it in the dissatisfied look, and reluctant air and unwilling movement; the constrained strokes of labor, the drawling tones, the slow hearing, the feigned stupidity, the sham pains and sickness, the short memory; and he feels it every hour, in innumerable forms, frustrating his designs by a ceaseless though perhaps invisible countermining.

I have countermined you, damn me!

I seemed to myself perpetually upon the brink of being countermined, and perpetually roused to guard my designs.

There, mining and countermining, they blew one another to atoms, or under shrieking shells that tore limbs from the trees and made missiles of them hurled themselves to the assault and were hurled back.

But Boon discovered the attempt, and sunk a trench as a countermine.

He commenced his dastardly countermining of his partner's advice by complimenting Payson on being a man whose words, manner and appearance proclaimed him to the world a true sport and a regular fellow.

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

What heart so strong, what eye so keen as minefor the greater the love the sharper the eye to mark, prevent, countermine.

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

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

"We have in our outfit at Guantanamo forty countermining mines, which I will bring here with as little delay as possible, and if we can succeed in freeing the entrance of mines by their use I will enter the harbor.

" The Admiral says he began making preparations to countermine, and, with the object of arranging an attack upon the batteries at the entrance a visit was arranged to General Shafter, so that the matter might be thoroughly discussed, and combined action take place.