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Sentences ending with itself

It will lead your thoughts pleasantly away, upwards to its source, downwards to the stream to which it is tributary, or the wide waters in which it is to lose itself. [6]
Now what do you think of that little design itself? [8]
This is a yearning after beauty and ornamentation which has no other means of gratifying itself. [4]
I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
Nor is it wrong in itself. [10]
It was answered, with sentiments of the highest consideration, that there were constitutional and other objections to the Nation's laying violent hands upon itself. [6]
Paris is brilliant with cafes: all the world frequents them to sip coffee (and too often absinthe), read the papers, and gossip over the news; take them away, as all travelers know, and Paris would not know itself. [4]
I hope you will see that it explains itself. [6]
I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. [7]
However, all that will come of itself. [10]

Short sentences using itself

The thing is simplicity itself. [9]
The method is simplicity itself. [5]
But Clark was serenity itself. [9]
Everything went on of itself. [2]
History sometimes reverses itself. [9]
Antipathy would assert itself. [9]
The city emptied itself. [5]
It never contradicts itself. [5]
It became captive itself. [5]
Even in London itself. [5]

Sentences containing itself two or more times

But the island was not true to itself or its history if it did not divide itself into factions, headed by the Seigneurs, and there had been no ground for good division for five years till De la Foret came. [11]
If ever there was an oyster that fancied itself a whale; or a jack-o'lantern, confined to a swamp, that fancied itself a planet with a billion-mile orbit; or a summer zephyr that deemed itself a hurricane, it is Conrad Wiegand. [5]
We have detected the cell in the very act of forming itself from a nucleus, of transforming itself into various tissues, of selecting the elements of various secretions. [3]
I speak of that assumed primary right of a State to rule all which is less than itself, and to ruin all which is larger than itself. [7]
He had no sooner, however, plunged his good sword into a soft part of the monster, and seen the blood flow from the wound, than his opponent changed itself into a griffin, and raising itself from the ground swooped upon him. [10]
Shinshin, with a sarcastic smile on his lips, was evidently preparing to make fun of anything that gave him the opportunity: Sonya's reading, any remark of the count's, or even the manifesto itself should no better pretext present itself. [2]
The little local paper threw itself into ecstasies of admiration and tried to do itself proud from beginning to end. [5]
So this duenna of Gabriel Druse's household, this aristocratic, silent woman was ever on the watch for some sudden revelation of a being which had not found itself, and which must find itself through perils and convulsions. [11]
The thought, which must have been long shaping itself in the father's mind, had been so far from betraying itself that it was a shock to the son to hear it plainly avowed. [6]
The orang is known to cover itself at night with the leaves of the Pandanus; and Brehm states that one of his baboons used to protect itself from the heat of the sun by throwing a straw-mat over its head. [1]

More example sentences with the word itself in them

What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
I can tell you, as one who knows, that there is no corporation in this country which, in the struggle to maintain itself, is not forced to adopt the natural law of the survival of the fittest, which you condemn. [9]
When it reaches you it will mean that there is a hitch in my machine-enterprise--a hitch so serious as to make it take to itself the aspect of a dissolved dream. [5]
By ingenious fetters you force the mighty winged intellect to content itself within the narrow world of reality. [10]
Herewith I send you a copy of a letter written at New York, which sufficiently explains itself, and which may or may not give you a valuable hint. [7]
The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
I lived from year to year With shadows, the strong warders of desire; I learned through them to seek the golden fire That hides itself in Song's bright hemisphere. [11]
And even the year before, a bill for Nebraska itself was within an ace of passing without the repealing clause, and this in the hands of the same men who are now the champions of repeal. [7]
He could have written this: The cloud-cap'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. [5]
I could not write in the hotel itself, so I went to the annex, and in the big building--in the early spring-time--I worked night and day. [11]
Try as she would to stifle her anxiety, it obtruded itself, and she could eat no breakfast. [11]
Then his forehead would knot and furrow itself, and the drops of anguish stand thick upon it. [6]
Perhaps his diary would have something of interest with reference to the "Saturday Club," of which he was a member, which, in fact, formed itself around him as a nucleus, and which he attended very regularly. [6]
The thing itself would break the daily monotony of life and provide hushed gossip for vraic gatherings and veilles for a long time to come. [11]
The leg was worn away almost to skin and bone, but the knee itself was swollen with inflammation. [11]
To Jim the world became a sea of maddening forces which buffeted him; a whirlpool of fire in which his brain was tortured, his mind was shrivelled up; a vast army rending itself, each man against the other. [11]
As for the word, I hate the sound of it, for it conveys a lie; and as for the thing itself, I wish it was in hell, where it belongs. [5]
The correspondence itself, with the usual reservations, is herewith submitted. [7]
It busied itself with the other one. [5]
As often occurs with old men, it was only after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew's face linked itself up with Kutuzov's remembrance of his personality. [2]
She was pulsing with life, as a bird drunken with the air's sweetness sings itself into an abandonment of motion. [11]
A nature overflowing with impulsive affection, it must spend itself upon others. [11]
It is dignified with a winding approach, but is itself only a cheap and decaying house. [4]
The watch doesn't wind itself and doesn't regulate itself--these things are done exteriorly. [5]
At times her will revealed itself in astonishing and unexpected flashes, as when once she announced that she was going to change Matthew's school. [9]
My own mirror will ask itself if it has not changed owners. [10]
It was a wildly extravagant farce--just the sort of thing that now and then Mark Twain plunged into with an enthusiasm that had to work itself out and die a natural death, or mellow into something worth while. [5]
He tried his wife's love and patience as a man must to whom the future is easy in the mass but terrible as it translates itself piecemeal into the present. [8]
It is a wide stretch of cheap little brick houses, with here and there a noble architectural pile lifting itself out of the midst-government buildings, these. [5]
The rain had wholly ceased, and seemed to have exhausted itself here in the afternoon. [10]
And now the whole nation--pulpit and all --will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. [5]
He saw the whips in their red caps galloping along the edge of the ravine, he even saw the hounds, and was expecting a fox to show itself at any moment on the ryefield opposite. [2]
The hysteric stage which the wise old man had apprehended began to manifest itself by its usual signs, if anything can be called usual in a condition the natural order of which is disorder and anomaly. [6]
The first thing which suggests itself to me, as I contemplate my slight project, is the liability of repeating in the evening what I may have said in the morning in one form or another, and printed in these or other pages. [6]
A noble heart which sees itself forced to pity a foe, easily forgives; and was she ever your enemy? [10]
But the opening which now presented itself introduced him to a field of activity much more suited to his talents and his tastes. [4]
First the subject, which must of itself have driving power, then the main character, which becomes a law working out its own destiny; and the subject in my own work has always been translatable into a phrase. [11]
The particular accident which might interrupt his career must, evidently, be determined by circumstances; but it must be of a nature to explain itself without the necessity of any particular person's becoming involved in the matter. [6]
The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
The only question which intruded itself was, whether he might not have preferred the company of one to that of two. [6]
But every problem which has life works itself out to its appointed end, if fumbling human fingers do not meddle with it. [11]
The former slackness which had shown itself even in his eyes was now replaced by an energetic readiness for action and resistance. [2]
The letter itself, which for the first time broke the guarded seclusion of Irving's heart, is evidence of the tender confidence that existed between him and this family. [4]
The narrow path which buried itself in the sand was becoming a thoroughfare leading upward. [10]
The artistic sense, which betrayed itself in the dramatic proprieties of its ritual, harmonized with her taste. [6]
Before they realized where they were, they had nearly crossed the Bellegarde estate, and the house itself was come into view, standing high on the slope above the withered garden. [9]
There were hours when, Ditmar's passion leaving spent itself, they achieved comradeship, in the office and out of it; revelations for Janet when he talked of himself, relating the little incidents she found most illuminating. [9]
As always happens when traveling, Princess Mary thought only of the journey itself, forgetting its object. [2]
There were moments when the pattern of it appeared to have fallen apart, resolved itself into pieces that refused to fit into each other. [9]
But really, madam, when I come to examine the matter in all its bearings, I find that the correctness of your assertion does not assert itself in all cases. [5]
The off-days came when her artistic nature was expressing itself in charcoal, for she drew to the admiration of all among the lady boarders who could not draw. [8]
The weaver-bird (Ploceus), when confined in a cage, amuses itself by neatly weaving blades of grass between the wires of its cage. [1]
I call it what it proves itself to be. [11]
To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself. [6]
If he--if Serapis were to fall, the order of the universe must be destroyed; and with him: The Synthesis of the Universe--the Universe itself must cease to exist. [10]
This, if it were sound in itself, is waging destructive war with the former position; for if Mr. Clay's bill impoverishes the treasury too much, what shall be said of one that impoverishes it still more? [7]
If these people were indeed so foul as to defile every thing they touch, how would this pure, this tender, holy impulse show itself even in them in all its beauty and perfection? [10]
For now we were in London for London itself, to do shopping, to see sights, to be our own master and mistress, and to live as independent a life as we possibly could. [6]
Though the two were generally at a distance, their existence made itself felt again and again either through letters or presents or by their coming to Berlin, which always brought holidays for us. [10]
The companion mansions were closed, their blinds tightly drawn; the neighbourhood was as quiet as the country, save for a slight but persistent noise that impressed itself on my consciousness. [9]
Now wheresoever a well-to-do Nuremberg citizen is taking his ease with victuals and drink, if others join him they likewise must sit down and eat with him, yea, if it were in hell itself. [10]
The effect of well-built, well-furnished, well-kept houses and of handsome grounds always maintained in good order about them shows itself in a large circuit around the fashionable centre. [6]
Hermon knew him well, for he had listened eagerly in the Museum to the lectures of the famous Herophilus, and his image also had stamped itself upon his soul. [10]
But I am well satisfied that it is not the thing itself, but the pursuit, that is an illusion. [4]
Twice in one week did this fever surge up in him, and it caught him in those moments when, exhausted by the struggle of his mind to adapt itself to the new conditions, his senses were delicately susceptible. [11]
We forget that weakness is not in itself a sin. [6]
Then why don't we unwittingly reproduce the phrasing of a story, as well as the story itself? [5]
The reason why we teach so much that is not practical and in itself useful, is because we find that the easiest way of teaching what is practical and useful. [3]
At Colombo, also, we had a misfortune, but it was of a peculiar kind, and did not obtrude itself at once; it was found in an addition to our passenger list. [11]
After a rest we followed down a path which had been made in the steep inner frontage of the moraine, and stepped upon the glacier itself. [5]
I say, then, we are forming an aristocracy; and, transitory as its individual life often is, it maintains itself tolerably, as a whole. [6]
Deeply agitated, we watched during the memorable examination the touching spectacle of the greatest heart making itself the standard by which to measure what is petty and ignoble. [10]
It bore the Washington postmark; the note itself was not dated. [5]
Whatever the number was, the crowd was very great,--so great that one might well feel alarmed for the safety of any delicate person who was in the _pack_ which formed itself at one place in the course of the evening. [6]
The house itself was well-fitted by its unusually palatial size and antique splendor to be the residence of the emperor's viceroy, and the Mukaukas, to whom it all belonged, had in fact held the office for a long time. [10]
The weather itself was uneasy, tepid, with long spells of hot wind and dust. [9]
That the age, was unable to separate him from itself, and see his great stature, is probable; that it enjoyed him with a sympathy to which we are strangers there is no doubt. [4]
The trench itself was the room, in which the lucky ones, such as the squadron commander, had a board, lying on piles at the end opposite the entrance, to serve as a table. [2]
The 'Jumping Frog' was the first piece of writing of mine that spread itself through the newspapers and brought me into public notice. [5]
That in itself was terrible enough, yet it was not the drunkenness alone that had sickened Janet, but the suggestion of something else. [9]
The earth itself was still and sober. [11]
The town itself was squat but amiable: small houses and large huts; the only place of note and dignity, the new town hall, which was greatly overshadowed by the big mill, and even by the two smaller ones flanking it north and south. [11]
But surely there was something in the story of the song itself that had moved her. [11]
The church itself was set back from the street. [9]
Her sable dress was ridged with manifold flounces, from beneath which a small foot showed itself from time to time, clad in the same hue of mourning. [6]
Since the evidence was purely circumstantial, there must be no flaw in its cable of assumption, it must be logically inviolate within itself. [11]
That wild spirit was now a force which understood itself in a new if uncompleted way. [11]
The Land-scheiding itself was not visible, but the Beggars had already passed it. [10]
The evening itself was not so hot as common, and there was an extra array of distinguished guests. [11]
The church itself was not more quiet. [12]
A heart which was not itself languishing for love could not pour forth to another with such convincing truth, overwhelming power, and glowing fervour the ardent longing of a soul seized by the omnipotence of love. [10]
The transformation, indeed, was more remarkable than he could have believed possible, for respectability itself would seem to have been regained by a costume, and the abundance of her remarkable hair was now repressed. [9]
The dinner itself was more like a ceremony than a meal, and as it proceeded, Honora found it increasingly difficult to rid herself of a curious feeling of being on probation. [9]
But Elise Malboir was life itself, absolute, true, abiding. [11]
The East Side was left pretty much to itself, now that the winter philanthropists had gone away, and was enjoying its summer nights and its irresponsible poverty. [4]
Lady Rosebery, who was kindness itself, would have had us stay and sit down in comfort at the supper-table, after the crowd had thinned, but we were tired with all we had been through, and ordered our carriage. [6]
Meantime his mother was inspecting a card which had disclosed itself upon the floor when she cast the curtains back. [5]
The love that was in him, new-born and but half understood, poured itself out in broken words like her own. [11]
The mill itself was in a blaze of white. [11]

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