Undertaking

Examples

• How could it be expected to undertake it when the undertaking meant its own destruction? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A sudden recollection had flashed on her this moment--she had not money enough for undertaking a long journey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When I returned to Perdita, I found that she had already been informed of the success of my undertaking. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The one greatest undertaking of the whole excavation was the Gaillard Cut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Although by far the largest undertaking yet made, the improvement in rock-boring machinery enabled it to be constructed much more rapidly and at less expense. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Jesus had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I gave them an undertaking on which they sent down your discharge; it's very awkward, my dear Sir; what will you do? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My uncle was almost persuaded that you were indeed dangerously ill, and could hardly be restrained from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This quality was destroyed by too much responsibility for others or the necessity of undertaking something ill planned or badly conceived. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Los Angeles is undertaking one of the greatest municipal projects of the day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Besides, there are some other inducements that excite me to this undertaking. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• When it is remembered that most of the 7? miles of tunnel was cut through solid rock, by boring and blasting, the immensity of the undertaking can be appreciated. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As the trees would have to be cut close to the bottom--under water--it was an undertaking of great magnitude. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• De Long, who had an earnest and protracted conversation with Edison over the Arctic expedition he was undertaking with the aid of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr Merdle's undertakings are immense. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There are many forms of pumps, and they serve widely different purposes, being essential to the operation of many industrial undertakings. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Man and brother, partner in feelings equally with undertakings and actions, I have found a cash-box. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When learning is a phase of active undertakings which involve mutual exchange, social control enters into the very process of learning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My uncle engaged afterwards in more prosperous undertakings: it appears he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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