1 We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily.
2 Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired; he would even make haste, where it was possible, to undo the evil done by Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 3 Beaumanoir, being thus possessed of the tablets, inspected the outside carefully, and then proceeded to undo the packthread which secured its folds.
4 When he began to undo the chain, the legs desisted, and a voice began.
5 No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.
6 Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS 7 She had not time to undo, and so carried back with her, the parcel of toys she had chosen the day before in a toy shop with such love and sorrow.
8 It gave him an intense sense of power to know that he could, by a single act of consent, in a moment of thought, undo all that he had done.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 9 I light a fire, for we have brought supply of wood with us, and she prepare food while I undo the horses and set them, tethered in shelter, to feed.
10 Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
11 He hastened to undo it; and, with smothered voices and heavy tread, came several men, bringing a body, wrapped in a cloak, and lying on a shutter.
12 His very first, remotest recollections of childhood came back to Prince Andrew's mind when the dresser with sleeves rolled up began hastily to undo the buttons of his clothes and undressed him.
13 Had I been able to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to go far away, I should have been safe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 14 Hence it follows that those things he does one day he undoes the next, and no one ever understands what he wishes or intends to do, and no one can rely on his resolutions.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED 15 She said, "Oh," again and their eyes met and the fluttering lashes were his undoing.