Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterordered
Literary usage of Counterordered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... of Gravelotte and had almost reached the Moselle before this move could be
counterordered, the remainder kept their places of the previous night, ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"But nearly all their orders were counterordered or canceled by the Austrian
General in command. The Germans began to send fra- quent telegrams to some of ..."
3. India and Tibet: A History of the Relations which Have Subsisted Between the by Francis Edward Younghusband (1910)
"... and on the distinct understanding that the Chinese would exhort the Tibetans
to promote and develop trade, the Viceroy counterordered the mission. ..."
4. Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K. C. B. Commanding the Royal by Augustus Simon Frazer, Edward Sabine (1859)
"... some of our troops (and I know many stores) had been embarked for Tarragona :—this
arrangement has been counterordered. If Murray can make head against ..."
5. Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and Others by Edmund Henry Barker (1852)
"... they observed that he had received the paper regularly, had never counterordered
it, and could not expect to be allowed to have it so long for nothing. ..."
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