Brought to naught

Usage examples of undone.

After this, the baronet might be as wise as he pleased: he had quite undone his work.

He had the gown undone, her corset beneath it, even the ties to her pantalettes and petticoats.

For she found the manse rookit and herrit, and there was such a supply of plenishing of all sort wanted, that I thought myself ruined and undone by her care and industry.

Saturday, Popsy telephoned while I was pottering round my apartment trying to shut my eyes to undone chores.

At the crucial moment I glanced within to observe my jacketless junior partner sprawled, tie undone, on his sofa beside a scrawny ruffian with a quiff of lime-green hair and attired for some reason in a skintight costume involving zebra stripes and many chains and zippers.

Driving away, Terri resolved to do the one thing which, out of pity for the Sens, she had left undone.

A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair.

For even as Orem watched the city was unbuilding itself, as if time had come undone and it was a century, two centuries in the past.

Undone and unrobed, I sat on the floor, the blanket wrapped around me.

Mark Whenso ye see the war-shaft, by the daylight or the dark, Busk ye to battle faring, and leave all work undone Save the gathering for the handplay at the rising of the sun.

She had undone two buttons and the bandana belt around her waist when Ryder interrupted.

Sharpe had already undone his crossbelts and was shrugging off the wool coat, grunting with the pain that the exertion gave to his back.

Then it came undone altogether, collapsing into a pool of diarrhetic putresence that bubbled and flowed amidst the pipework.

Although stress had undone inclination and appetite, Arithon wrapped himself in the damp folds of his cloak and pursued the chore of addressing survival and sustenance.

I was pleased to see that the breasts of both sexes were covered, a tribute to that original Aryan modesty which has been so effectively undone by the languorous climate of the Gangetic plain.