Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Also, as we were rowing into a very great sound lying south-west from whence these whales came, upon the sudden there came a violent countercheck of a tide from the south-west against the flood which we came with, not knowing from whence it was maintained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The North-West Passage] Reference

Oh no that was painful always good to countercheck the address.    From Wordnik.com.  [tHiNkEr'S rOoM] Reference

But while this game of check and countercheck was being played, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Trail of Grant and Lee] Reference

Utilitarians was not unnaturally met by an equally arrogant countercheck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference

It commences to keep back fat to countercheck what it perceives as a food shortage.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

It was resolved, however, at any rate, to advance a countercheck to this post on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference

Since anon (11: 21: 58): brought it up we have countercheck and this is the right one.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

The countercheck was effectual, and from her position of vantage the lady fired her first shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

Lord Grey might probably have returned "the countercheck quarrelsome," had not Mackworth risen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

The AFIS is a thumb mark verification technology that will countercheck the biometrics of each registrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

Here his high idea of prerogative and of gubernatorial dignity met with a grievous countercheck from the dawning spirit of independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference

What you meant, after all, was not cordiality; it was only generosity; to which his response, his countercheck friendly, was an order for ten pounds!.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2] Reference

He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Books and Irish People] Reference

Coordinate with the Human Resource Department (HRD) of the business establishments to countercheck whether they are complying the basic requirements before hiring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Thus the Professor, remaining standing to enjoin the temporary character of the interview; to countercheck which the lady sank in an armchair with her back to the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

It was resolved, however, at any rate, to advance a countercheck to this post on the Spokan, and one of the partners, Mr. David Stuart, prepared to set out for the purpose with eight men and a small assortment of goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference

So while the South thus early was seeking to frighten the North from the agitation of the slavery question in Congress, Garrison was unconsciously preparing a countercheck by making it dangerous for a Northern man to practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference

Hope End, rushed into print in a letter to the "Gazette" with the countercheck quarrelsome to the effect, "You might as well expect throstles to build nests on Fleet Street 'buses, as for folks of genius to be born in a big city.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women] Reference

The first, the ‘retort courteous; ’ the second, the ‘quip modest; ’ the third, the ‘reply churlish; ’ the fourth, the ‘reproof valiant; ’ the fifth, the ‘countercheck quarrelsome; ’ the sixth, the ‘lie with circumstance; ’ the seventh, the ‘lie direct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It] Reference

’ If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true: this is called the ‘reproof valiant: ’ if again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the ‘countercheck quarrelsome’: and so to the ‘lie circumstantial, ’ and the ‘lie direct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It] Reference

So while the South thus early was seeking to frighten the North from the agitation of the slavery question in Congress, Garrison was unconsciously preparing a countercheck by making it dangerous for a Northern man to practice Southern principles in the National Legislature.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Lloyd Garrison]

Hyde's intention by this announcement to countercheck their demand for a compromise which, in the pliancy of the King's temper, might have conceded all their main tenets, and to expose the hollowness of their demand for release from an over-strict conformity, his design succeeded admirably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference

This fleet would also serve to prevent the Chinese, when they are returning to their own country, from going among the said islands and committing depredations on the natives of them, and as a countercheck to other Chinese or Bornean pirates, as well as against all other undertakings, and troubles with foreigners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Living Present] Reference

One man, with opinions pretty well ossified on this subject, having been challenged for his statement that Mrs. Browning was born at Hope End, rushed into print in a letter to the “Gazette” with the countercheck quarrelsome to the effect, “You might as well expect throstles to build nests on Fleet Street 'buses, as for folks of genius to be born in a big city.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great]

We have to check and countercheck all our findings. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]

They can feed us with information and countercheck state reports. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Spaces thunder or lighting bickering or twinkling near them, angry shaking every fleet, great thunder couldn’t countercheck the convasition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes Man | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Lord Grey might probably have returned “the countercheck quarrelsome,” had not Mackworth risen — “And I, my lord, being in that matter at least one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

"This is in the nature of a countercheck to the memorial?" said I. "You are cunning, Mr. David," said he, "and you do not wholly guess wrong the fact will be of use to me in my defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.] Reference

Of sighes or teares, which joy doth countercheck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron] Reference

"This is in the nature of a countercheck to the memorial?" said I. "You are cunning, Mr. David," said he, "and you do not wholly guess wrong; the fact will be of use to me in my defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

Have brought a countercheck before your gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act II. Scene I. The Life and Death of King John] Reference

'Twere countercheck almost enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victories of Love] Reference

Quarrelsome, countercheck, 72.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

Shakespeare's Touchstone -- the retort courteous -- the quip modest -- the reply churlish -- the reproof valiant -- the countercheck quarrelsome -- the lie circumstantial and the lie direct -- are of immeasurably greater interest in the House of Commons than the health, the taxation, and the education, of a whole people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference