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Sentences ending with ourselves

I see how you were situated--another familiarity of Providence and wholly wanton intrusion--and of course we could not help ourselves. [5]
Mr. Davis's pamphlet would hardly be complete without a mysterious letter from an unnamed writer, whether a faithless friend, a disguised enemy, a secret emissary, or an injudicious alarmist, we have no means of judging for ourselves. [6]
So it is with ourselves. [1]
We came along with good winds, having no check, though twice we sighted French sloops, which, however, seemed most concerned to leave us to ourselves. [11]
Do your best with Carnegie, and don't wait to consider any of my intermediate suggestions or talks about our raising half of the $200,000 ourselves. [5]
And when we were not duelling with the nobles, we had Schlager-bouts among ourselves. [9]
It's just as well to keep our own matters to ourselves. [6]
On that point we therefore content ourselves with giving the following extracts from the writings of Mr. Jefferson, General Jackson, and the speech of Mr. Calhoun: "To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves. [7]
It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves. [7]
That was what we said to ourselves. [5]

Short sentences using ourselves

Between ourselves, I've tried. [9]
Are we not there ourselves? [6]
We built it ourselves. [10]
Well, I consider ourselves settled! [8]
It is part of ourselves. [7]
This is just between ourselves. [4]
Read Shakespeare ourselves! [5]

Sentences containing ourselves two or more times

Destiny meant us to prove our case against it, as well as we might; to establish our right to be here as long as we could, so discovering the world day by day, and ourselves to the world, and ourselves to ourselves. [11]
We who hold ourselves entitled to bear arms, to ride in tournaments, and take office in the Church, and who have a right to call ourselves nobles and patricians, are all more or less kith and kin. [10]
I suppose we mostly are giving up ourselves to Ourselves, thinking always of our own pleasure and profit and pride, never being content, pushing on and on...., Ian, I'm not going to push on any more. [11]
Whether the system is right in itself we do not stop to inquire; contenting ourselves with trying to show that, while our opponents use it, it is madness in us not to defend ourselves with it. [7]
None of us had ever been any where before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty to us, and we conducted ourselves in accordance with the natural instincts that were in us, and trammeled ourselves with no ceremonies, no conventionalities. [5]
But regarding him from within ourselves as what we are conscious of, we feel ourselves to be free. [2]
I would labour for the land of Egypt, for by work shall we fulfil ourselves, redeem ourselves. [11]
As we look at the condition in which we find ourselves on this fourth day of July, 1863, at the beginning of the Eighty-eighth Year of American Independence, we may well ask ourselves what right we have to indulge in public rejoicings. [6]

More example sentences with the word ourselves in them

But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
Fully clothed, and wrapped in blankets, and huddled ourselves up, by the window, with lighted pipes, and fell into chat, while we waited in exceeding comfort to see how an Alpine sunrise was going to look by candlelight. [5]
John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
Between ourselves, he would like to be appointed regent of Persia while the king is away at the Massagetan war, and would therefore give a great deal to connect himself by marriage in some way or other with the Archemenidae. [10]
We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
It's ourselves we wish to change, we wish for a religious faith like yours, only the same teaching which gave it to you is powerless for us. [9]
For to-day we will close the temple gates, solemnize the festival among ourselves, and allow no one to enter our precincts for sacrifice and prayer till the fate of the sisters is made certain. [10]
And this is why we cannot of ourselves add one cubit to our stature. [9]
Those of us who, like Honora, believe in Providence, do not trouble ourselves with mere matters of dollars and cents. [9]
It is that which sometimes has made me afraid, that we believed ourselves above the law. [9]
And then, too, where amongst ourselves do we find so earnest a longing and endeavor to gain freedom, the highest good, as among the animals? [10]
It is only when a moment, a moment like this comes that the quality of what we have lived seems so tarnished, that the atmosphere which we ourselves have helped to make is so sordid. [9]
We see just what we were when they were our peers, and can strike the balance between that and whatever we may feel ourselves to be now. [6]
Anybody whose ancestors were in this country when we were trying to free ourselves from oppression, must sympathize with those who now are trying to do the same thing in Russia. [5]
We know they were generally, perhaps universally, as good and true Whigs as we ourselves claim to be. [7]
Our parting words were as brief as, of necessity, they had been on our journey through the mountains, for the ladies had ridden the horses which we had sent over for ourselves from Viking, and we men walked in front. [11]
The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it. [2]
So there we went, and soon found ourselves installed at the "Foley Arms" hotel. [6]
And, as we went southward, our hands and faces became blotched all over by the bites of mosquitoes and flies, and we smothered ourselves under blankets to get rid of them. [9]
It may be well to look at the prospects before us, if a peace is established on the basis of Southern independence, the only peace possible, unless we choose to add ourselves to the four millions who already call the Southern whites their masters. [6]
But how can we, when we have been intoxicated with many things; when we are drunk with success and experience; have hung on the fringe of unrighteousness; and know the world backward, and ourselves mercilessly? [11]
Our fathers said we were disgracing our families, and they commanded us to purge ourselves of our lie, and there was no limit to their anger when we continued to say we had spoken true. [5]
At Painsec Junction we waited for the train from Halifax, and immediately found ourselves in the whirl of intercolonial travel. [4]
At every hotel we stop at we always have to send out for soap, at the last moment, when we are grooming ourselves for dinner, and they put it in the bill along with the candles and other nonsense. [5]
So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. [2]
Before all things we must prove ourselves equal to those in Thebes over there, and win the people over to our side. [10]
We believe that we may promise him as warm a welcome among ourselves as he will receive even in America; that his place will be at once conceded to him among the first historians in our common language. [6]
On the way we introduced ourselves to each other. [10]
Where we suppose we have the constitutional right, we restrain ourselves in reference to the actual existence of the institution and the difficulties thrown about it. [7]
For a week we had schooled ourselves to expect nothing more from this wicked world, but here was an enchanting vision. [4]
We do what we forbid ourselves to do; we suffer the shames we damn in others--but yes. [11]
By this policy we entangle ourselves. [7]
Therefore, much as we could desire your more than human wisdom in our deliberations, we cannot lawfully avail ourselves of it. [5]
For some time we continued winding along the brinks of precipices, overhung with cragged and fantastic rocks; and after a succession of such rude and sterile scenes we swept down to Carolina, and found ourselves in another climate. [4]
I don't think we can tell the exact truth about ourselves. [11]
We are light, we are always trying to get away from ourselves, and sometimes I wonder whether there are any selves to get away from. [9]
Then, if ever, we allow ourselves to go out to others in sympathy expressed by gifts and good wishes. [4]
I think that was the condition in which we found ourselves when we established this government. [7]
Mr. Smith --that was not his name, but it will answer--questioned us about ourselves and our country, and we answered him truthfully, as a general thing, and questioned him in return. [5]
Barop, the head-master, was already hastening down the steps, welcoming my mother and ourselves with his deep, musical tones, in a pure Westphalian dialect. [10]
Why should we want to beguile ourselves in that way? [5]
It would be very pleasant to be like this, side by side, and help ourselves from a table all our own to dainty dishes which we had not assisted in cooking. [10]
We distressed ourselves very little about the astonishing echo the guide talked so much about. [5]
It is not very likely, as was said at the beginning of this chapter, that we shall trouble ourselves a great deal about the internal affairs of the Apollinean Institute. [6]
Five languages in use in the house (including the sign-language-hardest-worked of them all) and yet with all this opulence of resource we do seem to have an uncommonly tough time making ourselves understood. [5]
So they conveyed us to the Grand Hotel for a short time, and then saw us safely off to the station to take the train for Chester, where we arrived in due season, and soon found ourselves comfortably established at the Grosvenor Arms Hotel. [6]
He would explain us to ourselves. [5]
Experience had taught us some valuable things; among others, how to take care of ourselves, how to avoid and defeat sharks and sharpers, and how to conduct our own business for our own profit and without other people's help. [5]
Every one of us is subject to alternations of overvaluation and undervaluation of ourselves. [6]
We draw in upon ourselves here. [11]
We were brought up on the literature of England; our first efforts were imitations of it; we were criticised--we criticised ourselves on its standards. [4]
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us. [7]
Heloise and I, under pretext of study, gave ourselves up wholly to love, and the solitude that love seeks our studies procured for us. [5]
We are all trying to associate ourselves to make everybody else behave as we do. [4]
Let us not trouble ourselves about the psychological problems involved, problems which the first century interpreted in its own simple way. [9]
We need not trouble ourselves about the distinction between this and the Paper Nautilus, the Argonauta of the ancients. [6]
Notwithstanding the supposed traditionary advantage of our birthplace, we were unable to dispatch this meal with the celerity of our fellow-voyagers, and consequently, while we lingered over our tea, we found ourselves at the second table. [4]
And very fatiguing, too; for we had tried hard, along at first, to catch up with the guide, but had only fagged ourselves, in vain; for although he was traveling slowly he was yet able to go faster than the hampered caravan over such ground. [5]
I think I told you she had a prostrating week of tonsilitis a month ago; she has remained very feeble ever since, and confined to the bed of course, but we allow ourselves to believe she will regain the lost ground in another month. [5]
We often move to the objects of supreme curiosity or desire, not in the lines of castle or bishop on the chess-board, but with the knight's zigzag, at first in the wrong direction, making believe to ourselves we are not after the thing coveted. [6]
Jokingly we got to speaking of it as my office; and amused ourselves with watching "my people" daily in their small grounds and trying to make out what we could of their dress, &c., without a glass. [5]
Suppose we were to remain in this magnificent palace, and to represent ourselves the beautiful groups which the great artists of the past have produced in painting or sculpture; but let us choose those only that are least known. [10]
He had come to realise that there are several sorts of happiness, but that all may be divided into two kinds: the happiness of doing good to ourselves, and that of doing good to others. [11]
We had it to ourselves that evening. [6]
Do we pray to make ourselves better, or to benefit those that hear us; to enlighten the Infinite, or to be heard of men? [5]
We cannot attempt to keep you here; we should thereby only injure ourselves without benefitting you. [10]
We are here to enjoy ourselves. [4]
If she ceased to care for life, she could allow death to take her, just as we dream ourselves asleep. [10]
We are used to atmospheric existence, and can hardly conceive of ourselves except as breathing creatures. [6]
We are trying to "realize" to ourselves the importance of the 12th of October as an anniversary of our potential existence. [4]
Besides, it is time that we should show ourselves to our friends feasting here in the next room. [10]
Is it not time for reflection when we find ourselves willing to see in such a being matter for frivolous curiosity instead of regret and grave reflection? [5]
We stopped some time at one of the plantations, to rest ourselves and refresh the horses. [5]
We mustn't budge till he was gone, so we could be last ourselves. [5]
We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. [5]
We too will throw ourselves into the holiday whirlpool disguised, I as a satyr, and you as a young faun or something of the kind; we will drain cups, wander round the city and enjoy all that is enjoyable. [10]
But we must throw away no more time; we must bestir ourselves. [5]
Next, two or three memorable things that have happened to us were laid bare--things which no one present but ourselves could have known about. [5]
He said he thought we would like his establishment well enough to confine ourselves to it--said he never saw anybody who would go off and hunt up another man in his line after trading with him once. [5]
It's a melancholy thought to me that we can no longer express ourselves with the bass-drum; there used to be the whole of the Fourth of July in its patriotic throbs. [4]
If we lift those people up, we have a right to lift ourselves up nine or ten grades or so, at their expense. [5]
The popularity of this immense show was very great, and we found ourselves, A---- and I, in the midst of a vast throng, made up of respectable and comfortable looking people. [6]
I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people. [7]
I think that this declaration to improve this orthography of ours is our family cancer, and I wish we could reconcile ourselves to have it cut out and let the family cancer go. [5]
We Europeans see this amongst ourselves. [1]
What do you think--would it not be right to pour out half a cup of wine to the gods, and allow ourselves the other half? [10]
Did you ever think, Robert," he added, "that this breathing of ours is a labor, and that we have to work every second to keep ourselves alive? [11]
Any one of these three conditions would stave off recognition by foreign powers, until we had ourselves abandoned the attempt to reduce the South to obedience. [6]
Alas, alas, in the years to come we shall have to bite deep into the flesh, till the blood flows, if we wish to escape being eaten up ourselves! [10]
If we finished the task before the time set, we had the remainder to ourselves. [4]
We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. [7]
When you ascend the scale of being, and come to an animal that is, like ourselves, inedible, you have arrived at a result where you can rest. [4]
You shall do the same, and we will amuse ourselves. [5]
When cremation becomes the rule we shall cease to shudder at it; we should shudder at burial if we allowed ourselves to think what goes on in the grave. [5]
With other signs, the popular elections then just past indicated uneasiness among ourselves, while, amid much that was cold and menacing, the kindest words coming from Europe were uttered in accents of pity that we are too blind to surrender a hopeless cause. [7]
We may cast the old man from us, and believe we have shaken ourselves free, when lo! [10]
Good, speak to the mariners: fall to 't, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir! [5]
The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it will not be necessary to weary the reader by many details. [1]
As for ourselves, the Long Knives, we came in truth to conquer, and because of their hasty judgment the Kaskaskians were at our mercy. [9]
He stirred up the living, and made us stand, jump, slap ourselves, to restore our circulation, and he helped as well as he could with his whip. [5]

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