Use undertaken in a sentence
Sentences ending with undertaken
- He urged him to come East and join him in the conduct of the new enterprise he had undertaken. [4]
- Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities of failure in what he has undertaken. [6]
- I will carry out what I have undertaken. [10]
- Such were some of the duties imposed; there were others voluntarily undertaken. [4]
- When the end of all things at Washington came for Sally, these two men united to bear her up, that her feet should not stumble upon the stony path of the hard journey she had undertaken. [11]
- The jackals howled louder as the smell of the melting fat filled the air, and the old man, as he looked on, forgot the terrible task he had undertaken. [10]
- This is a feeling which almost every one must have at the conclusion of any work he has undertaken. [6]
- But he had failed in the great enterprise he had undertaken. [6]
- Nor can a complete picture of life at Quicksands be undertaken. [9]
- It was impossible--Biberli believed this as firmly as his nurse--that Heinz could coldly forget his follower or Katterle neglect what she had undertaken. [10]
Sentences containing undertaken two or more times
- It has needed but little attention to make it perfectly obvious that the control of the Mississippi River, if undertaken at all, must be undertaken by the national government, and cannot be compassed by States. [5]
More example sentences with the word undertaken in them
- No other man would have undertaken so Quixotic an enterprise, none would have exposed himself so recklessly to the dreadful accidents of circumstance. [11]
- The patent under which this colonization was undertaken was obtained from King James by the solicitation of Richard Hakluyt and others. [4]
- Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
- Meditating on this, we hailed at sundown the spires of Abingdon, and regretted the end of a journey that seems to have been undertaken for no purpose. [4]
- First, then, I was to be introduced to his Royal Highness, which office was kindly undertaken by our very obliging and courteous Minister, Mr. Phelps. [6]
- His real name was Rice, and he had undertaken to criticize Clemens's reports. [5]
- Admiration for him was born the day he pushed O'Meara out of his office and down a flight of stairs because he had undertaken to suggest that which should be done with the timber in Jackson County. [9]
- It was not until the rector had arrived at the vestibule of the apartment house next door that something--of the difficulty and delicacy of the errand he had undertaken came home to him. [9]
- He has not undertaken to say that Trumbull tells a lie about these words being stricken out, but he is really, when pushed up to it, only taking an issue upon the meaning of the words. [7]
- As I have undertaken the thing I will carry it out, but for no other reason, for it is my opinion that even without such means of deception--" "We use no deception," interrupted the high-priest, sternly rebuking his colleague. [10]
- It had been undertaken by the mandate of the great god Amon, so he had little to dread from Mesu's terrible power. [10]
- Pellicanus had undertaken to watch Ulrich, who was still sleeping quietly. [10]
- Austen had undertaken to throw young Tom out of a front window, which was a large, old-fashioned one,--and after Herculean efforts had actually got him on the ledge, when something in the street caught his eye and made him desist abruptly. [9]
- Then she flew to tell the company her success, and the applause she received made her glad and proud she had undertaken her mission, since all alone she had accomplished what the multitude had failed in. [5]
- We have undertaken to resent a supreme insult, and have had to bear new insults and aggressions, even to the direct menace of our national capital. [6]
- Ought I not to regret having undertaken to report the doings and sayings of the members of the circle which you have known as The Teacups? [6]
- Science has undertaken to fathom it, and the results which it gains with measures and numbers is of a different value and more lasting than that which the idle sport of the intellects of the older philosophers obtained. [10]
- Clemens had undertaken to doctor the play, and it would seem to have had an enthusiastic reception on the opening night. [5]
- But ere gaining the river she was to learn that she had undertaken a more difficult task than she expected. [10]
- That he realized the magnitude--for her--of the task to which she had set herself; that he sympathized deeply with the spirit which had undertaken it, she was as sure as though he had said so. [9]
- The reference to the Galaxy in the foregoing letter has to do with a department called Memoranda, which he had undertaken to conduct for the new magazine. [5]
- If this is the duty of a citizen, he had discharged it with singleness of purpose; but no other duty of the citizen had he undertaken, if we except his private charities. [4]
- There they sat, the brave sons of a little nation, the stately leaders of a small community, poor in numbers and means of defence, which had undertaken to bid defiance to the mightiest power and finest armies of its age. [10]
- He well knew that nothing but confusion would come of this battle undertaken against his will, and as far as was in his power held the troops back. [2]
- Then he remarked that he had undertaken to 'learn' me all about a steamboat, and had done it; but that if he had overlooked anything, just ask him and he would supply the lack. [5]
- Nay, her heart swelled with grateful joy because she had been so patient and suffered nothing to divert her from the arduous duty which she had undertaken in nursing the old man, who regarded her with such disfavour. [10]
- The play, "Ah Sin," had many good features, and with Charles T. Parsloe in an amusing Chinese part might have been made a success, if the two authors could have harmoniously undertaken the needed repairs. [5]
- Not until Lady Schorlin questioned her did Eva confess what troubled her, and how she dreaded the venture which she had undertaken on her own responsibility. [10]
- For her own sake Eva surely would not have suffered herself to be so tortured by anxiety night and day, or undertaken and resolved to dare so much. [10]
- She had a right to be consulted before that thing was undertaken, since it concerned war as well as politics. [5]
- But she spared only a few moments for the enjoyment of these feelings of delight, for there was no happiness for her without Polykarp, and it was for his sake that she had undertaken this perilous night-journey. [10]
- Rich Herr Baersdorp, one of the four burgomasters, who had the largest grain business in Leyden, had undertaken to purchase considerable quantities of bread-stuffs in the name of the city. [10]
- To the best of my knowledge and belief, and so far as I can judge from the inquiries I have undertaken, Jethro Bass has made his living and gained and held his power by the methods described in those articles. [9]
- But besides considerations of foreign policy, the attention of Russian society was at that time keenly directed on the internal changes that were being undertaken in all the departments of government. [2]
- As the widow of a tribune who had fallen in my father's service, she had undertaken to attend on me. [10]
- True, they did not venture into the cathedral, probably from fear of his Majesty the Emperor, and whoever had undertaken to lay hands upon the altar painting and the Madonna in our chapel would have paid for it--I am not boasting--with his life. [10]
- The man did not hesitate long, after Theopompus had undertaken to be their surety, and the desired documents were made out. [10]
- There was now not a shadow of doubt in his mind as to whether what he had undertaken was right or wrong. [2]
- Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them. [2]
- And when such men are demanded, they will be forthcoming, just as they are in any department in life, when a business is to be developed, a great engineering project to be undertaken, or an army to be organized and disciplined. [4]
- No less a man than Florentin has undertaken to recruit for our cause among the heathen officers in the army. [10]
- They were to light the shepherds who had undertaken to attack the chariot-soldiers, and were commanded by old Nun, Hur, and Ephraim. [10]
- I did not know how difficult a task I had undertaken in venturing upon a memoir of a man whom all, or almost all, agree upon as one of the great lights of the New World, and whom very many regard as an unpredicted Messiah. [6]
- That Boy steals into his room sometimes, and stares at them with great admiration, and has himself undertaken to form a rival cabinet, chiefly consisting of flies, so far, arranged in ranks superintended by an occasional spider. [6]
- When Mr. Bedloe Hubbell had undertaken, in the name of Reform, to make a witch's cauldron of the city's politics, which Mr. Beatty had hitherto conducted so smoothly from the back room of his saloon, Mr. Plimpton had unselfishly offered his services. [9]
- Hannibal Melas relieved her of the care of Maestro Feys, which she had undertaken, and under his faithful nursing the old musician was granted many more years of life. [10]
- He would find her a hiding-place, and the lady Euryale had undertaken to provide a messenger. [10]
- Regularly every evening he went down the stairs and performed the duty he had undertaken with the punctilious care of a neat housewife. [10]
- With secure confidence he had undertaken to establish for himself and his family a sovereignty of the world which should include the state and the Church. [10]
- It was very hard for her to leave him and neglect the duties which she had undertaken, but in the presence of the summons addressed to her every other consideration must be silent. [10]
- The Abbe Rossignol had undertaken to see them safely to the hospital, and Jo Portugais, at his own request, was permitted to go in attendance upon M. Evanturel. [11]
- To increase the grandeur of his family and render it the most powerful reigning house in the world, he had become prematurely old; had undertaken superhuman tasks of toil and care; even now he would permit himself no repose. [10]
- But when she gave him permission to tell her betrothed husband all that he had seen and heard the day before at the Ortlieb mansion, Biberli replied that a better person than he had undertaken to do so. [10]
- He must first finish the work he had undertaken in the riding-school, then he himself would smooth the way to Italy for him. [10]
- He had never failed in anything he had undertaken, although many of his duties had been considered almost impossible. [7]
- If he had ever undertaken the task, he might have disturbed that serene opinion of himself which marks him as a man who realized his own ideals. [4]
- He would however escape all danger of those anachronisms to which the author of such a work as I have undertaken must be hopelessly liable. [10]
- If war was declared, he would be compelled to resign the hope that these would be undertaken by Rome, and the opposition, the defiance, the bold rebellion of the Protestant princes destroyed every hope of propitiation on their part. [10]
- Without them she could accomplish nothing, yet for the first time she had undertaken tasks and sought to win goals which were worthy of beseeching them for aid. [10]
- This was vehemently contradicted; but a tall, scrawny man seemed to have undertaken to defend the ruler's violence. [10]
- With their slow camels and asses, it was about a seven days' journey from Dan to Beersheba---say a hundred and fifty or sixty miles--it was the entire length of their country, and was not to be undertaken without great preparation and much ceremony. [5]
- The work wrought by Joan of Arc may fairly be regarded as ranking any recorded in history, when one considers the conditions under which it was undertaken, the obstacles in the way, and the means at her disposal. [5]
- This was the birthday of the twins; Charmian had reminded her of it and undertaken to provide the gifts. [10]
- And as day after day went by her realization of the magnitude of the task he had undertaken became keener. [9]
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