Thus did Juno, but in different fashion, veiling the radiance of her deity and transforming herself for the occasion into the exact likeness of her aged nurse, persuaded Semele to her undoing.

It was the undoing of Wood, but it really led to the victory of Boston.

But if we incautiously place the word in the wrong environment, the idea will be resurrected to our undoing.

O Mairi Dhu, you gave yon sprain To poor Dun Para's arm; It is myself would have the work Undoing of the harm I'd twist around the three-ply cord Well-knotted o'er the charm.

Besides, perhaps, that week, he has met with some dismal crosses and most undoing misfortunes.

A sudden incautious movement on the part of the novice might prove the undoing of the precious pair.

" It is preposterous to think of this minister of peace, this restless prelate, half soldier, half pastor, meddling in all these cabals and seditious schemes organized for his own undoing, but nevertheless, he was really the fomenter of all of them.

He gets as much by those projects that miscarry as by those that hold (as lawyers are paid as well for undoing as preserving of men); for when he has drawn in adventurers to purchase shares of the profit, the sooner it is stopped the better it proves for him; for, his own business being done, he is the sooner rid of theirs.

How we hear Moll's sweet voice through the walls of her prison, and speak two words with her though almost to our undoing.

When is it to be?" I hesitated a moment, lest I should fall into another trap, trying to escape from the first; but, seeing he was an Englishman, I would not believe him capable of playing into the Turks' hands for our undoing, and so I told him our business was for midnight on the feast of Ramadah.

The civilians of old set guardians over such brain-sick prodigals, as they did over madmen, to moderate their expenses, that they should not so loosely consume their fortunes, to the utter undoing of their families.

" But as Demeo told him, tu illum corrumpi sinis, your lenity will be his undoing, praevidere videor jam diem, illum, quum hic egens profugiet aliquo militatum, I foresee his ruin.

So parents often err, many fond mothers especially, dote so much upon their children, like [2130]Aesop's ape, till in the end they crush them to death, Corporum nutrices animarum novercae, pampering up their bodies to the undoing of their souls: they will not let them be corrected or controlled, but still soothed up in everything they do, that in conclusion "they bring sorrow, shame, heaviness to their parents" (Ecclus. cap.

Tetigit id dictum Principis animum, these words of his so galled the prince, that he was long after tristis et cogitabundus, very sad and melancholy for many months; but they were the earl's utter undoing: for when Christina heard of it, she persecuted him to death.

" It is easy to fancy the girl's evil face scowling at the unconscious Queen, before she leaves to pen those inflammatory pamphlets which are to prove the Sovereign's undoing and her own.

There were many other cliques and parties, great and small, each bent upon the other's destruction in particular and upon the undoing of the Republic in general.

He and she were bound together, he felt sure, in schemes for his own undoing, and Bianca's too.

He was neither surprised nor disappointed by its contents, though he had expected that there would be much more difficulty in undoing what had been done.

So far as his arm reaches he is undoing whatever in nature is holy: ruining whatever is the real creation of the great worker of all.

I knew it was that fierce death-calm Its horrid hold undoing,

I tell you a man is like an angel, he can be good or bad; he has a power for heaven but the same power for hell" "See here, I don't know anything about all this hell-talk, but I do know" "I tell you death is the very last thing I have left to look forward to, but if you kill me it will be your own undoing.

Leaping up he fled after Grabble, running as he had never run before, and, even as he leapt clear of the sleeping group, the wave of Pathans broke upon it and with slash and stab assured it sound sleep for ever, all save Edward Jones, who, badly wounded as he was, survived (to the later undoing of Moussa Isa, murderer of a Brahmin boy).

The children worshipped him; and if he had been spoilable, my wife would surely have been his undoing.

Everywhere they betrayed one another to the final undoing of all.] BOOK VI In the general assembly convoked shortly afterwards, the colonists unanimously decided to send an envoy to Hispaniola to ask for reinforcements and for the appointment of a judge.

"Here are our commodities, and trust me the price shall not be dwelt on, between us," resumed Master Seadrift, undoing the fastenings of the little bale, that had entered the saloon, seemingly without the aid of hands.