He is also said to have been a spy between Hutten and Frau Sabina, and only undertook the care of the dog for the purpose of remaining in the castle to carry on intrigues.
Bishops and abbots were appointed by kings and the great feudatories, and were by them invested with their lands as fiefs, for which the clerical appointee did homage, and undertook to perform feudal duties.
But it was in the spirit of Christian devotion that he undertook and laid upon his Order the performance of active duties in the world, especially of preaching true doctrines for the salvation of souls.
The doctor undertookto explain that I had been insolent.
Whereupon he went to work; but William fought bravely, and the young master, finding he was getting the better of him, undertook to tie his hands behind him.
Still, I urged upon her the duty of publishing her experience, for the sake of the good it might do; and, at last, she undertook the task.
The proslavery mob which had gathered undertook to destroy their home but the officials prevented them.
Rhode Island we have observed undertook to raise a regiment of slaves.
There arose an anti-free Negro party which sounded the alarm against such philanthropy and undertook to frighten all blacks away.
The city council convened and undertook to dispose of the trouble by enforcing the law of 1827 requiring that colored people should stay off the streets at night.
This organization hoped to return the free Negroes to Africa and undertook to prepare professional leaders of their race for the Liberian colony.
They then finally joined the States' rights party, which, boldly declaring the election of Lincoln a just cause for the dissolution of the Union, undertook to secede.
In a letter addressed to the editor of the African Repository, in 1853, Nathaniel Bowen undertook to express similar views.
In attempting to reorganize and purify the company's service, Clive undertook a task yet more difficult than to partition the valley of the Ganges.
Within a year Hastings was succeeded by Lord Cornwallis, the first English nobleman of rank who undertook the office of governor-general.
Thus was constituted the dual system of government, by which the British received all the revenues and undertook to maintain an army for the defence of the frontier, while the criminal jurisdiction vested in the nawab.
His success was somewhat better in a weekly publication, which he undertook at the beginning of 1782, under the title of the Swiss Journal.
Writing to Mr. Pigot, Clive describes this affair in the following words: "I cannot help regretting that I ever undertook this expedition.
He, however, agreed to lend Kay a smith and watch-tool maker to do the heavier part of the engine, and Kay undertook to make the clockmaker's part of it.
With merely three thousand Prussians he undertook the defence of the extensive city, within whose walls were nineteen thousand Austrian prisoners.
The writer has had few more pleasurable duties than that which he undertook of presenting Hannah, in her neat and trim cottage, with her first pension warrant.
The priestesses undertook the education of the girls, the schools being a part of the temples.
We cannot exclude them, and if we undertook to do so, it would only be postponing the evil day, when such a policy would breed an armed conflict.
We may rest assured also that the Japanese, when they undertook that job, would not stop with blowing up one tunnel.
Think of this the next time you see a howling mob of fans or rooters at a baseball or football game, and "Lest we forget," think also of England's lesson when she undertook to enlist soldiers from such a citizenry.
The emperor requested him to do so, and Le Port immediately undertook the task.
In such cases the mediation of the bailiff might be dispensed with; the village entered into a direct agreement with the lord or his chief steward and undertook a certain set of services and payments, or promised to give a round sum.
In this way out of the lord's will custom arose, and as custom is the soul or vital principle of common law, the Courts undertook in the end to protect the base tenure of the peasantry against the very lord whose will had created it.
There they called together all Bothwell's friends, and made them sign a kind of treaty by which they undertook to defend the queen and her husband.
Edward, therefore, met the Colonel at Edinburgh, who wished him joy in the kindest manner on his approaching happiness, and cheerfully undertook many commissions which our hero was necessarily obliged to delegate to his charge.
Surprised by a force of a peculiar and unusual description, their opposition could not be long or formidable, especially as they were deserted by the cavalry, and those who undertook to manage the artillery.
When Forde accepted the situation offered to him, he undertook a task too great for his abilities.
I am sorry you undertook the business," observed the senior, shifting his ground from theory to fact.
Taylor, the Vice-Consul at Basra, undertook excavations on behalf of the British Museum at Mukeyyer, the site of the ancient city of Ur.
Apparently the kings of Persia were in the habit of farming out the taxes like the Roman emperors of later days, and Murashu Sons undertook to levy the king's taxes from their Babylonian subjects in Nippur and elsewhere.
In Shalmaneser I's reign it was destroyed by fire, and that king undertook its restoration.
You remember how hard it was for him to express himself in the English language, and yet counsel undertook to impeach that old man by proving what he said at the coroner's inquest.
Here after considerable conversation, a contract was agreed upon, by which O'Sullivan undertook to pay Dr.
It was with considerable reluctance that Professor Barrett undertook the work, since, as he has told us, his own prejudice against the subject was not less than that of others.
Voisin, who was one of the physicians on the staff, undertook to hypnotise her on 31st May, at a time when she could only be kept quiet by the strait jacket and bonnet d'irrigation, or perpetual cold douche to the head.
The fact that Beethoven received an advance payment on a commission for an oratorio which he undertook to write for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde has been mentioned.
He made, what it is easy to imagine to have been, the experience of all the medical men who undertook the care of the great man.
The then Imperial Russian Ambassador, Prince Rasoumowsky, undertook to send the work to Your Majesty by a courier.
But with the elaboration of the sketches the Mass was not really finished, for subsequently Beethoven undertook many changes.
This work he undertook and completed with great success, remaining Dean of the Cornell Law School for seven years.
In its earlier years the Alumni Association also undertook to keep up the alumni catalogue and maintained for some time a card index of the alumni.
These were immediately approved and by October, 1913, three University physicians, including one woman, undertook the systematic care of the health of the student body.
She alsoundertook translations, chiefly from the French.
In 1537, at the instance of his friend Cardinal Sadoleto, he undertook to mediate between the Church and the Lutherans, but failed through the attitude of the Protestants.
A missionary journey to Japan which he undertook in 1837 was without any result.
For one year he held the Appointment of Professor in the College of Reichenau, at a salary of fifty-eight pounds; and for that sum undertook to teach history, mathematics, and English.
When they had sat down, Alete undertook to put him through a course of national gastronomy.
When the Austrian government resolved to subjugate Hungary, it was presumed that they undertook the conquest of that country relying on their own resources.
And a runaway serf, Ivan Bolotnikof by name, undertook to personate the defunct impostor.
If we stuck in a bog, if we were caught in a thunderstorm, if we were pitched head over heels by the wild colts we undertook to break in, Guy Bolding's only elegy was "Such fan!
This step was approved at Vienna; and Bathyanyi undertook the duty on the condition that Jellachich should be ordered to retire, and, if he refused, should be proclaimed a traitor.
It was a very painful hurt to the poor girl, and the family all grieved over her misfortune; but not one of the men undertook to mend the step.
I told them, correspondent and accordingly, that you was a Presbyterian minister, and that I had undertook to show you the way to Chester, where you was going to hold forth.
The tidings of this answer he undertook to convey to Butler, and he again set out for his father's house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undertook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
