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When all of this should have been accomplished, there would be scarcely a process in the steel industry, from the smelting of the ore to the completion of a bridge, which the Boyne Iron Works could not undertake. [9]
The performance of that task we now undertake. [7]
Without these hospitable retreats, travel in Palestine would be a pleasure which none but the strongest men could dare to undertake. [5]
General Sherman tells me he is well acquainted with James Yeatman, and that he thinks him almost the best man in the country for anything he will undertake. [7]
How much of it can you two undertake? [5]
She gives it cheerfully as you see, and it would break her heart if she knew that I suffered anybody else to do for me what her little hands could undertake. [12]

More example sentences with the word undertake in them

So I suggested you, and said I would write and see if you would be willing to undertake it. [5]
I will ask you to undertake to be my guard of honor to-night--we will share this room. [10]
I assert that you [pointing to an individual] are here to-day, and you undertake to prove me a liar by showing that you were in Mattoon yesterday. [7]
Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge. [2]
I was fired with the idea, and immediately made up my mind to procure the necessary guides, ropes, etc., and undertake it. [5]
However, Orion went with his anxious friend to the ship-yard; the old ship-builder, a kind-hearted giant, was as ready and glad to undertake the rescue of the Sisters as if each one was his own mother. [10]
No one was willing to undertake the dangerous and ignominious mission. [4]
The Chair: I will not undertake to anticipate what the gentleman may say on the subject of internal improvements. [7]
Their wounded pride will bring them over to our side, and if they are too 'noble,' as they call it, to undertake anything themselves against a woman, still they will be more likely to help than to hinder us, if I should need their assistance. [10]
There are operations which no surgeon should be willing to undertake unless he has paid a particular, if not an exclusive, attention to the cases demanding such operations. [6]
Suppose a minister were to undertake to express opinions on medical subjects, for instance, would you not think he was going beyond his province? [6]
Her inventive brain was now busy in devising means to induce the Syrian to undertake its execution. [10]
I did not undertake to renew my old acquaintance with hospitals and museums. [6]
I'd as lief undertake to keep a span of elephants,--and take an ostrich to board, too,--as to marry one of 'em. [6]
The abbess would undertake to give them all a passage on board the ship that was awaiting her, and to set them on shore wherever he might choose. [10]
Now, if you undertake to disprove that proposition, and to show that it is erroneous, would you prove it to be false by calling Euclid a liar? [7]
It does not undertake to discuss the theoretical aspect of the subject; that is a secondary matter of consideration. [3]
They could now undertake many things independently, and Caesarion often made remarks which showed that he would not cease to lay plots for Barine. [10]
But we cannot undertake it until L. A. L, is out of the way. [5]
I shall therefore undertake a sober examination of its principles, its facts, and some points of its history. [3]
After looking about two or three days, you called and distinctly told me that if I would add the Blenker division to the force already in the department, you would undertake the job. [7]
I came here to-night to ask you to undertake a mission in behalf of myself and certain other gentlemen, and I assure you that my motives are not wholly mercenary. [9]
She silently resolved to undertake the pilgrimage to Compostella, at the World's End,--[Cape Finisterre]--in distant Spain, though she did not know how it would be possible to accomplish this with her mutilated foot. [10]
He need fear to undertake none, if only it was worthy of representation; for he was sure of his ability, and difficulty did not alarm him, but promised to lend creating for the first time its true charm. [10]
Dokhturov was unwilling to undertake any action, as it was not clear to him now what he ought to do. [2]
I will undertake to restore the Berenice and put your mother's head on her shoulders. [10]
I will undertake to prove by the record here that he made that charge against more and higher dignitaries than the editor of the Washington Union. [7]
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted; but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. [7]
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted, but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. [7]
They ordered her to Italy for next winter--which seems to indicate that by autumn she will be able to undertake the voyage. [5]
Admitting this connection to exist, I should like to see the gentleman from Coles, or any other gentleman, undertake to show that there is any harm in it. [7]
I will undertake to bweak thwough. [2]
We cannot in this manner undertake to point out all the objections to this party measure; we present you with those stated by the Council of Revision upon returning the bill, and we ask for them a candid consideration. [7]
This sort of thing is common enough, but there is another case that may prove deceptive if you undertake to judge from appearances. [6]
At any rate, they undertake the lighter menial duties of some household where they are not known, and, having stooped--if stooping it is to be considered--to lowly offices, no born and bred servants are more faithful to all their obligations. [6]
In his letter the young doctor begged her to undertake the responsibility of engaging a man servant and a kitchen maid for him, and of seeing that there was a fire laid on his hearth to welcome him. [10]
The weakness of the side continued, and the inability to undertake any mental work. [6]
You make him the idol, to humble me to a worm; and what you grant the she-wolf--the right of defence when men undertake to rob her of her young--you deny me, and, because I insist upon it, I must be a deluded, unbridled creature. [10]
Her frail body, the dressmaker protested, was not able to undertake such a walk through the storm. [10]
I see, however, that your friends are unwilling that you should undertake the responsibility of accompanying me under present circumstances. [14]
Kassandane tells me, that you are going to undertake a delicate operation to-morrow in order to restore her sight. [10]
But Hosea declared that he would undertake the task of bringing him back to his people and as, nevertheless she continued to show her anxiety, asked whether he had forfeited her confidence and love. [10]
They have been suffered to pass current so long that it is time they should be nailed to the counter, a little operation which I undertake, with perfect cheerfulness, to perform for them. [3]
When Froebel's restless spirit drew him to Switzerland to undertake new educational enterprises, and some one was needed who could direct the business management, Barop, the steadfast man of whom I have already spoken, was secured. [10]
Yet this "impossible," Smith says, he accomplished in Virginia, and offers to undertake in New England, with one hundred and fifty men, to get corn, fortify the country, and "discover them more land than they all yet know. [4]
I think our small boarder here is like to prove a refractory subject, if I undertake to use the sceptre my friend meant to bequeath me, too magisterially. [6]
No man can sleep when he is about to undertake one of these Alpine exploits. [5]
I have never since ventured to undertake anything on so grand a scale. [10]
But since the sin had been committed only in thought, the kindly guardian of her conscience was quickly disposed to grant her absolution if, as a penance, she would repeat a goodly number of paternosters and undertake a pilgrimage. [10]
I undertake to say, and I make the direct issue, that he did not make his charge against the editor of the Union alone. [7]
Were I as rich as formerly I would gladly undertake the entire cost; notwithstanding that your malicious god so cruelly deceived me, after all my offerings at his shrine. [10]
I was not reluctant to undertake the hard work, yet I felt like a colt which is led from the pastures to the stable. [10]
Therefore I will put my other duties aside for a moment and undertake this helpful service. [5]
Otherwise one would pipe out and say the Commission might as well bully the comets in their courses and undertake to make them behave, as try to bully the Mississippi into right and reasonable conduct. [5]
He determined at once to undertake the operation, and recommended them to comfortable lodgings, kept by an old servant of his. [14]
But Caesar at once recovered himself, and when he asked the Egyptian: "Will you undertake to help me, as captain of the night-watch, to punish the traitors of Alexandria? [10]
Our ponies ambled on, unmindful; but Nick vowed that no woman under heaven would induce him to undertake such a journey again. [9]
Among the assets of the Bolton property, the Ilium tract was sold, and Philip bought it in at the vendue, for a song, for no one cared to even undertake the mortgage on it except himself. [5]
Besides, I undertake nothing without consulting the omens. [10]
You, too, ought not to overlook it when you undertake to model a Demeter; for she is a goddess, no mortal like yourself. [10]
Though she had not been taken into his confidence, she knew the reason that he had been selected to undertake this toilsome journey. [10]
But I claim no credit for that--if I stiffened up his back-bone a little, I simply put him in the way to make his fight--didn't undertake it myself. [5]
The Baillieres informed my correspondent that the sale of Homoeopathic books was much less than formerly, and that consequently they should undertake to publish no new books upon the subject, except those of Jahr or Hahnemann. [3]
To seek to maintain the old man's right to his own property is a matter of course, and I will undertake to do this and try to get yonder orator home Just see how the braggart is swinging his arms in Iras's service! [10]
The old man listened with serious attention, and with assenting nods that culminated in a spoken expression of his willingness to undertake the translations. [8]
In the following letter we get a Mark Twain estimate of the great financier who so cheerfully was willing to undertake the solving of Mark Twain's financial problems. [5]
In the same letter he suggests to his brother that he undertake an absolutely truthful autobiography, a confession in which nothing is to be withheld. [5]
If she exceeded it, Charles must undertake the payment, whether he desired it or not. [10]
The vagueness of information, to be sure, lured the travelers to undertake the journey; but the temptation was resisted--something ought to be left for the next explorer--and so Linville remains a thing of the imagination. [4]
At any rate, I won't undertake to do it. [8]
As soon as I can get at the facts I will undertake his rehabilitation myself, if I can find an unpolitic publisher. [5]
For one thing, his publishing-house, in spite of prosperity, seemed constantly to be requiring more capital, and then a Chicago company had been persuaded by Paige to undertake the manufacture of the type-setter. [5]
For her sake he would undertake the most difficult enterprise. [10]
Howells wrote that he had no time for the dramatization and urged Clemens to undertake it himself. [5]
How far this has in the past molded American thought and sentiment, in what degree it should be held responsible for the infidelity in regard to our "American experiment," I will not undertake to say. [4]
I tried Messrs. Harper & Brothers, and several other publishers by turn, but none of them could undertake to print the book in the time. [11]
He is a good man if he will undertake it. [7]
There was a good deal of talk about it evening after evening, off and on, and I can only undertake to set down fragments of it. [4]
I should be glad to learn whether it be such as you approve, and would undertake to publish at as early a period as possible. [14]
It is a game that one would not undertake with a vegetable of tone. [4]
Yet it is folly to undertake works of this or any other without first knowing that we are able to finish them--as half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost. [7]
It is as follows: "But I must add that the United States Government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. [7]
During the last fifty years so much has been said and written both as to the constitutionality and expediency of such an institution, that we could not hope to improve in the least on former discussions of the subject, were we to undertake it. [7]
Inheriting from her father an active brain and the courage to undertake new things, she had little of his sanguine temperament which blinds one to difficulties and possible failures. [5]
He stands so far above your judgment that it is insulting him to undertake his defence. [10]
As for her dress, I should like to give the details, but am afraid of committing blunders, as men always do, when they undertake to describe such matters. [6]
Now, open the door again and let us get out by the side door; do you, this time, undertake the task of cooperating with Serapis yourself. [10]
Now she had done all that was possible for the marquise, but no power on earth should induce her to undertake anything of the sort a second time; She was saying this to herself as she entered the little castle. [10]
He will not devise or undertake anything," thought Prince Andrew, "but he will hear everything, remember everything, and put everything in its place. [2]
Knowlton was in despair, and late in the conference was repeating the necessity, when a young officer, pale from recent illness, entered the room and said, "I will undertake it. [4]
And in these days, with what exquisite, yet tremulous skill and courage did she bring up the subject of that other labour they were to undertake together--the life and letters of his father. [9]
The greater the danger its solution might involve him in, the more impossible it seemed at first sight, the more gladly, in his present mood, would he undertake it. [10]
Whatever it might cost, she must undertake the risk. [10]
So, if we constitutionally elect a President, and therefore you undertake to destroy the Union, it will be our duty to deal with you as old John Brown has been dealt with. [7]
The Rock Island case referred to, was my individual enterprise; and it caused so much difficulty in so many ways that I promised to never undertake another. [7]
The anxious father besought the leech, in whom he had the greatest confidence, to hasten to Djidda, there to examine the sufferer and undertake the case. [10]
He had formerly been a locksmith and it still was part of his duty to undertake the repairs of the simple household utensils. [10]
I should not be the right person to undertake it since no one in this Jacobite household--hardly even one of yourselves--has found favor in the eyes of the Melchite. [10]
It could not be a man with fixed reputation and a following: he would be too costly, and would have too many enemies among his brethren, even if he would consent to undertake the job. [8]
There were, perhaps, as many as two thousand pages of it, which few could undertake to read. [5]

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