Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that.
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Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that.
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Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
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[…] every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.
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[…]so Fritz could sleep easily in his trench, so far as mines were concerned; and Fritz, confident in his Herr Professors, altogether neglected any attempt to counter-mine.
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