Undertaken

Examples

• God will protect you; for you have undertaken His work, I answered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• My journey to Paris was not undertaken alone. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In 1724, this company had undertaken the whale fishery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This party had undertaken to escort him as far as Doncaster. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Arkwright was ill with asthma during many of the years when he was fighting for his fortune, and time and again it seemed as if his strength must fail before the task he had undertaken. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You can incur none in pursuit of the object you have undertaken that I shall hesitate for a moment to bear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was a test of what could be done in a sudden military emergency, and was gratuitously undertaken by the company at the request of the Secretary of the Navy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Rushworth was to be Count Cassel, but no one had yet undertaken Anhalt. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Wars would, in general, be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This could not be undertaken until the waters receded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What could I not have been, what could I not have undertaken for the friend, the companion, the husband of my choice? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Accordingly, with the abandonment of all the other plans for reaching a base heretofore described, this new one was undertaken. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He thought she had undertaken more than she was equal to, and that she felt it so herself, though she would not own it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Leverrier at the request of Arago had undertaken to investigate the irregularities in th e tables of Uranus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Discipline means power at command; mastery of the resources available for carrying through the action undertaken. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I think I can be quite as much of a gentleman at the work I have undertaken, as if I had been a curate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The friction caused the ice to melt, although the experiment was undertaken in a temperature of 29° Fahrenheit. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In this view Dr. Franklin is almost unrivalled, having seldom undertaken more than he accomplished. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She then sought her eldest sister, who had undertaken to make inquiries on the same subject of Bingley. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Pleasant Riderhood had undertaken to find out where she lived, and it was not necessary that it should be attended by a single word of explanation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have undertaken to explain where you may want explanation, but to be strictly impartial, and to do nothing more. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That general had undertaken to capture a battery of the enemy which was annoying his men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The task of making this survey was undertaken by Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam (1561-1626). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Municipal improvements were undertaken in Panama and Colon and the various settlements in the Canal Zone, such as the construction of reservoirs, pavements and a system of modern roads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In 1833 through his influence the reduction of all the planetary observations made at Greenwich from 1750 was undertaken. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Electric power was introduced, timidly, by way of a few fans in 1884 and following this, in 1888, motor drive for printing presses was undertaken. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You have undertaken to do something; all I remark upon that at present is, do it! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Bella at length said: 'Hadn't we better talk about the commission we have undertaken, Mr Rokesmith? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Moriarty supplied him liberally with money, and used him only in one or two very high-class jobs, which no ordinary criminal could have undertaken. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You have but one end to keep in view--how the work you have undertaken can best be done. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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