| 1. | Have hired me to undermine the Duchess. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | not taken till these two undermine it, the walls will stand til. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | She might, and not improbably would, have suffered death from the stern tribunals of the period, for attempting to undermine the foundations of the Puritan establishment. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | "To them it is only a moment affording opportunities to undermine a rival and obtain an extra cross or ribbon. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | This skepticism despises and nevertheless grasps it undermines and takes possession it does not believe, but it does not thereby lose itself it gives the spirit a dangerous liberty, but it keeps strict guard over the heart. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social order it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines progress. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |