She may insinuate, and countermine; but I have a tolerably strong dependance on my own power over Anna.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
"'If one army is besieging a castle or town,' said he, 'and mines beneath the ground after nightfall secretly, is it underhand action to do the same, and to countermine them?
"Oddsfish!"
Robert Hugh Benson
This is very satisfactory when it happens to an enemy, but not when it happens to one's-self, therefore when we have to enter an enemy's harbour we countermine.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne