"The coppersmith agreed to undertake the work we wanted done, for a moderate compensation, but we did not think it prudent to inform him of our object, which he supposed was to make some philosophical experiment.

How deep we went I wont undertake to say, but this much is quite sartin, we went down so far that I couldn't see out at the hole we went in at.

" "I shall not undertake," said Spalding, "to enter into a labored defence of the use of tobacco in any form.

I do not undertake to say that they all congregated nightly on the roofs of those out-houses.

I won't undertake to report all they said; a decent regard for the proprieties of language, compels me to give only a sketch of the debate.

These phenomena of which the Spiritualists speak, I will not undertake to pronounce all lies.

Consequently none of the scouts were anxious to undertake it.

I thanked him for the generous offer, which I had to decline owing to a lack of confidence in myself; or as some people might express it, I didn't have the requisite cheek to undertake a thing of that sort.

Nixon laughed at him, and said that there was no use of trying to undertake anything of the kind in so short a timeit was utterly impossible to do it.

I have been trying all the evening long to induce some one to carry my dispatches to him, but no one seems willing to undertake the trip, and I have got to fall back on you.

This, Dave was willing to undertake.

"I'm afraid I can't undertake to believe you," Belle pouted.

Neither Fitz nor Larry would undertake to run the press.

"Under the circumstances I think we ought to know something more about you, before we allow you to undertake so much responsibility.

You seem a bright, able young man, and I've no doubt you understand the work you're about to undertake, but if we have no knowledge of your antecedents you may cause us considerable future trouble.

The sum of from thirty to fifty dollars usually remitted for a short story pays the beginner a better recompense, for the actual time he is engaged upon the work, than any other occupation he might undertake.

We did not undertake this publication to make money, and it does not cost us more than we are willing to pay for the exceptional experiences we are gaining.

They said at once they would be glad to undertake the proposition.

"Then I have induced you to undertake a poor venture and must suffer the consequences, which to me will be no hardship at all.

Shall I undertake to discover his real identity?" Uncle John let Thursday and Hetty answer this question, and their reply was a positive "no!"

The letter which Dr. Wyville Thomson wrote to Dr. Carpenter in May, 1868, out of which all these expeditions have grown, shows that this query had become a practical problem in Dr. Thomson's mind at that time; and the desirableness of solving the problem is put in the foreground of his reasons for urging the Government to undertake the work of exploration: [Footnote 7: See above, "On a Piece of Chalk," p. 13.]

When you come to observe faithfully the changes of each humblest plant, you find that each has, sooner or later, its peculiar autumnal tint; and if you undertake to make a complete list of the bright tints, it will be nearly as long as a catalogue of the plants in your vicinity.

The Women's Farm and Garden Union was the fore-runner of the official Land Army, and to it still is left the important work of enrolling those women who, while willing to undertake agricultural work, are disinclined to sign up for service "for the duration of the war.

When it became known that Mr. Justice Hodson was to preside at the Old Bailey during the trial of Holymead, legal rumour concerned itself with statements to the effect that there was now a difficulty in obtaining a K.C. to undertake the prosecution.

Our Infantry and many of our Batteries would then be out in the open, in view from the Austrian O.P.'s, unable to light a fire by day, and only able to send up supplies by night; and our general situation would be so much the worse with heavy snow increasing our discomfort and the visibility of any work we might undertake and of our every movement.