Sample Sentences forcountermand (auto-selected)
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And he assured me with so much impressiveness that he would countermand the later letters, which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay, that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion.† (source)
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Mother had ordered me not to tell anyone about the curse, but Mandy could countermand the order so I'd be able to tell Char.† (source)
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Could you countermand them if they did?† (source)
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I cannot call Caine to countermand my orders, without releasing you, and the moment I release you I will fall beneath your mental domination or suffer physical assault.† (source)
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So whose choices should we countermand, Mackenzie?† (source)
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It had taken an act from the U.S. State Department to bypass and countermand the red tape that would have normally resulted in an immigrant's immediate expulsion.† (source)
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Sometimes Kevin countermanded her orders, claiming that he had work for me.† (source)
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Shame flushed her; but before the saving resentment could countermand the shame, she forgot Dick and the young man.† (source)
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The countermanding of Lola's casting decision, and the laughter in the boys it provoked, made for a shift in the balance of power.† (source)
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Ramius countermanded his order.† (source)
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She had a great access of sensibility too that day, when obliged to go and countermand the clothes, the darling clothes on which she had set her heart for Christmas Day, and the cut and fashion of which she had arranged in many conversations with a small milliner, her friend.† (source)
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Impossible to conceal ourselves inside it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply by countermanding the vaudeville.† (source)
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Once he had the humor of changing his room and gave detailed orders for a move to the Painted Parlor; the chinoiserie, he said, disturbed his rest—he kept the lights full on at night—but again lost heart, countermanded everything, and kept his room.† (source)
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Mr Dorrit, on the altar of whose dignity all this was incense, made a gracious reply; and said that his people should—ha—countermand his horses, and he would—hum—overlook what he had at first supposed to be an affront, but now regarded as an honour.† (source)
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What if the queen— But my consternation subsided there, and my panic passed off; for the queen, all in a collapse, made no show of resistance but gave a countermanding sign and sunk into her seat.† (source)
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A week of remorse nearly made Meg sick, and the discovery that John had countermanded the order for his new greatcoat reduced her to a state of despair which was pathetic to behold.† (source)
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