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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.

The North-West Passage 2003

Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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.”

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

’ 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.

Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It 1914

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.

Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It 1914

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.

Irish Books and Irish People Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

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.

The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

But while this game of check and countercheck was being played, the

On the Trail of Grant and Lee Frederick Trevor Hill 1898

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.

William Lloyd Garrison Grimke, Archibald H 1891

[292] The retort courteous, if not even the countercheck quarrelsome,

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889