Nearly every man elected[1400] to the new Legislature was pledged to vote for the undoing of the fraud in any manner that might seem the most effective.
Marshall's gentle manner and large-minded, soft-spoken rulings as a trial judge were thus adroitly made to serve as an argument for the condemnation of his associate, and for his own undoing if Chase should be convicted.
His first action, he tells us himself, was the restoration of the chapel, and, as Laud managed it, restoration was the simple undoing of all that the Reformation had done.
His aim throughout was to co-operate with the Guardians in giving, not less, but greater effect to the Poor Laws, and in resisting the sensational writing and reckless abuse which aim at undoing their work.
And so the work went on, steadily undoing itself, and the neatly-stitched little dresses, or whatever they were, steadily falling to pieces.
My Lord, your honoured father was in his bed stricken with the long illness that came to be his undoing at the last, and we never let him know that the Baron was dead or the siege in progress.
And so all day the conspirators followed Francois and The Boy, undoing their work.
THE OTTER SLIDE For the next few days Francois was busy completing his Marten Road, quite unconscious of the undoing that followed him.
The other great andundoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented.
For those whom Heaven afflicts there is a chance," contributes the Sage of another land; "but they who persistently work out their own undoing are indeed hopeless.
Yet it was a too close adherence to the national character that proved to be the undoing of Wynchley Slocombe, who is now generally admitted to have been the father of the form of aerial propulsion so widely enjoyed to-day.
Undoing his belt, he took off his old trousers full in front of Peter, held them out in an explanatory way, sat down and put them on again.
Jack's undoing was a source of depression to Honor Bright, and the question of how to save him was with her continually.
Sooner or later, vanity would be herundoing and she would join the ranks of the fast and free.
Twould be the lad's undoing upon the London stage.
Thus, instead of bringing into strong relief the operation of blind fate, Sophocles places in the foreground the human agencies which contribute to the undoing of Polyneices.
He broke up the trilogy into separate plays, exhibiting three tragedies and a satyric drama, like AEschylus before him, but undoing the link by which they were connected, so that he was able to make each an independent poem.
Tell us of thy sad undoing Here, where we sit, ever pursuing Our weary task, ever renewing Sharp sorrow, far from God who gave Our powers, and man they could not save!
While I was undoing my trousers, I observed that Miss Frankland had quite lifted up her outer frock, and had sat down, evidently intending to flog me across her knee.
Undoing her dress above, she uncovered the charming budding beauties of Lizzie's bubbles, and began sucking the nipples.
It was the undoing of Wood, but it really led to the victory of Boston.
My mother hurried out into the hall; I made my best speed after her, and found her hastily undoing the door-chain as she recognised the measured, courteous voice of old Mr. Fordyce.
We effected them gradually, and have ever since been undoing them, as our architectural and ecclesiastical perceptions have advanced.
A dog that runs himself to death to evade a kitchen utensil which could not possibly harm him, and which if he did not flee would not pursue, is the author of his own undoing in precisely the same sense as is the victim of pseudo-hydrophobia.
Any pressure short of physical torture or the threat of it, that can be put upon a rogue to make him assist in his own undoing is just and therefore expedient.
First he took one, and undoing the lacing which confined one side, he drew out a flaccid bladder.
Undoing the mouth of the bladder, round which a piece of string was tightly fastened, he inserted his pipe, and very soon filled it with air.
Undoing his helmet, he placed it on the table, and stood a moment as if to collect himself before he told his news.
Whether from love of form, or from curiosity, the marshals paid no attention to his expressions of reluctance, but unhelmed him by cutting the laces of his casque, and undoing the fastening of his gorget.
Excursus of Yolande's Undoing Now Jurgen, self-appointed Duke of Logreus, abode at the court of King Gogyrvan.
I'm afraid that my hasty temper is always leading to my undoing as a churchman.
Its contents were so satisfactory, and this coming rain looked like undoing the good his staunch friends in the mountain camps had so laboriously achieved.
