countercheck

How To Use countercheck In A Sentence

• He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck. Irish Books and Irish People
• They questioned him and counterchecked his answers so often and so thoroughly that when they finally let him go he no longer really felt that the mission had been part of his life. Starfishers
• Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work. The Living Present
• To countercheck the view that pluralism is tolerable or inevitable, the CDF published a declaration, Dominus Iesus.
• ’ If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true: this is called the ‘reproof valiant: ’ if again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the ‘countercheck quarrelsome’: and so to the ‘lie circumstantial, ’ and the ‘lie direct. Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
• [292] The retort courteous, if not even the countercheck quarrelsome, A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• The mass of testimony is overwhelming, and may be checked and counterchecked from white to black and from black to white to any extent. Tupelo
• There is no countercheck to its emotions.
• One man, with opinions pretty well ossified on this subject, having been challenged for his statement that Mrs. Browning was born at Hope End, rushed into print in a letter to the “Gazette” with the countercheck quarrelsome to the effect, “You might as well expect throstles to build nests on Fleet Street 'buses, as for folks of genius to be born in a big city.” Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
• So while the South thus early was seeking to frighten the North from the agitation of the slavery question in Congress, Garrison was unconsciously preparing a countercheck by making it dangerous for a Northern man to practice Southern principles in the National Legislature. William Lloyd Garrison