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Sentences starting with self

Self flew back and swung on its central pivot and took command. [9]

Sentences ending with self

It was like you; like your good great heart, like your matchless and unmatchable self. [5]
Meanwhile, I thank you, noble lady, and also in the name of my brother, who is my second self. [10]
What his thoughts were, Hodder could not surmise; for he seemed again, marvellously, to have regained the outward peace which was the symbol of banishment from the inner man of all thought of self. [9]
It is that we have a conscious, or lower, human self, and a subconscious, or better self. [9]
His characteristic answer was: "I place no value on these forms unless they depend upon and express the inner self. [10]
It was all very well for him to say that he would settle his debts him self. [10]
But you are to blame, your own self. [5]
The "brag" appeared to be all taken out of him, and his airy manner only asserted itself now and then in a comical imitation of its old self. [5]
One has no time to one's self. [4]
But even in this suggestion she was conscious of a twinge of disloyalty to her former self. [4]

Short sentences using self

Aye, self and selfishness! [10]
Like his old self. [4]
Self--self, always self. [11]
Self! [10]

Sentences containing self two or more times

That old person was not present--it was her other self that was there, her young, sentimental, melancholy, warm-blooded self, in those early sweet times before antiquity had cooled her off and mossed her back. [5]
I am going to be myself--my genuine self, my honest self, my natural self, clear and clean of sham and folly and fraud, and worthy of you. [5]
Fate is one's self, what one brings on one's self. [11]
To die one's self is a thing that must be easy, and of light consequence, but to lose a part of one's self --well, we know how deep that pang goes, we who have suffered that disaster, received that wound which cannot heal. [5]
To revenge one's self for wrong to one's self is but a common passion, which has little dignity; to avenge some one whom one has loved, man or woman, --and, before all, woman,--has some touch of nobility, is redeemed by loyalty. [11]
To receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one's inner self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to perfect one's self. [2]
All Mrs. Falchion's old self was battling with her new self. [11]
This caring wholly for one outside one's self kills that self which else would make the world blind and deaf and dumb. [11]
Why was the A self like his good uncle in bodily aspect and mental and moral qualities, and the B self like the bad uncle in look and character? [6]

More example sentences with the word self in them

I think it will be difficult for you to find any thought of self in that impulse. [5]
She knew not why, except that there was an indefinable craving for a self respect which had been violated by herself and others; except that she longed for the thing which she felt he would not give her. [11]
Pretence it is which drives the Other Self away with wailing on its lips. [11]
I wish father were here and were his old self again--Oh, he never in his life had such chances as these are. [5]
Mother always says we are happy when we deny self in order to do good. [10]
I loved to watch her, for with me she was ever her own absolute self, free from all artifice, lost in her perfect naturalness: a healthy, perfect soundness, a primitive simplicity beneath the artifice of usual life. [11]
But his heart was sore; for by-and- by no letters came from his daughter, and the little city, having prospered, concerned it self no more with him. [11]
So complete, now, was his forgetfulness of self, of his future, of the irrevocable consequences of the step he had taken, that it was only gradually he became aware that some one was standing near him, and with a start he recognized McCrae. [9]
What they both understood was that Dryfoos was endeavoring to get at Beaton through Conrad's memory; but with one this was its dedication to a purpose of self sacrifice, and with the other a vulgar and shameless use of it. [8]
But now, as under the spell of a new encompassment of her own weaving, she seemed to revert to her former self, sinking, relaxed, into a wicker lounge beside the basin, one long and shapely hand in the water, the other idle in her lap. [9]
Beauty Steele was under the eyes of another self, and neither disdain, nor contempt, nor the passive stare, were available. [11]
The excess of unbridled power again makes it self visible in the wonderfully gifted man. [10]
It filled her too with a kind of awe; for, when it burned, she seemed not herself alone, but another self of her whom she could not quite understand. [11]
To be allowed to work for France, to spend one's self for France, is itself so supreme a reward that nothing can add to it--nothing. [5]
No second self to say her evening prayer for? [6]
Your suggestions as to placing one's self on the offensive rather than the defensive are certainly correct. [7]
No, says I to my self, there ain't nothing in it. [5]
This brought him to him self, and he swam with the enjoyment. [11]
Just to talk to him gives one such a queer feeling of--of dissatisfaction with one's self, and seeing him once more seems to have half revived in me a whole series of dead memories. [9]
Nothing was private to her inner self now. [11]
It's hard work to hear one's self speak amid all the ringing, trumpeting, yelling, and shrieking. [10]
One soon learns to expect this bow and be on the lookout and ready to return it; but to learn to lead off and make the initial bow one's self is a difficult matter for a diffident man. [5]
It is easier to defend one's self against the lion than the scorpion. [10]
He didn't pretend to be versed in theology--so he had declared--and at the memory of these words of his the epithet "ass," self applied, passed his lips. [9]
The doing good to another person where no shadow nor suggestion of benefit to one's self can result from it. [5]
And it is through the subconscious self that every man is potentially divine. [9]
She felt that this Other Self of her, the inner-seeing soul which had the secret of the far paths, had spoken truly. [11]
The experience of thinking another man's thoughts continuously for a long time; of living one's self into another man's life for a month, or a year, or more, is a very curious one. [6]
Did you ever think, Mona, that a man must suffer when he goes out into a world where he knows no one, penniless, with no trade, no profession, nothing except his own helpless self? [11]
It is one thing to believe one's self orthodox, and quite another to have that orthodoxy so definitely defined as to be compelled, whether or no, to look it squarely in the face and own or disown it. [9]
Faster and faster they stepped, each forgetful of self and place, until the waltz came suddenly to a stop. [9]
It's as though there was some other self in me which reached far, far back into centuries, that wills me to do this and wills me to do that. [11]
She had congealed the word on his lips by her scorn, and now he was his old debonair, dissipated self, with the impertinent monocle in his eye and a jest upon his tongue. [11]
I had committed the supreme violation of the self that leads inevitably to its final dissolution.... [9]
To go into the shop of a European modiste is almost to put one's self into a truthful and candid frame of mind. [4]
I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile. [5]
Different results of the one Master Impulse: the necessity of securing one's self approval. [5]
The old life, the old impetuous egoism, the long years of self were not yet gone from a character composite of impulse, vanity and intensity. [11]
She furnished them the news herself that the Kin had made this truce; and in speaking of it she was her usual frank self. [5]
The smallest and the largest pupil was free, for he was permitted to be wholly and entirely his natural self, so long as he kept within the limits imposed by the existing laws. [10]
And yet, if the inner self is the true one, there was little change in her. [10]
But to share the inmost consciousness of a noble thinker, to scan one's self in the white light of a pure and radiant soul,--this is indeed the highest form of teaching and discipline. [6]
He dropped me the idea his own self, and that's odd. [5]
More than this, the first efforts of poets and story-tellers are very commonly palimpsests: beneath the rhymes or the fiction one can almost always spell out the characters which betray the writer's self. [6]
The combination of the cat and the canary did not seem incongruous where she was concerned; it was as though something in her passionless self neutralized even the antagonisms of natural history. [11]
Now I'll vinture that your honor'll know that dog's dimensions there better than he knows them his own self, and just by the casting of your educated eye upon him. [5]
Or was it that his deeper Other Self had whispered something to his mind about Krool--something terrible and malign? [11]
She desired always that her visible corporeal self should be admired and desired, that men should say, "What a splendid creature! [11]
He had had terribly bitter and revengeful feelings during the last hour, but all at once his real self emerged, the thing that was deepest in him. [11]
The Paladin was suddenly become his ancient self again, and was swaggering up and down, a very monument of self-complacency. [5]
This subconscious self stretches down, as it were, into the depths of the universe and taps the source of spiritual power. [9]
Then, weak and spent, she lay thinking, not of the oppression that would break her, but of this new revelation of self. [13]
With a faint smile at his own past insolent self, he glanced at the clock. [11]
He thought that she shrank from what she had seen of his real self, much or little, and he was conscious of so many gifts and abilities and attractive personal qualities that he felt a sense of injury. [11]
By the time she reached Dawson's Landing, she was her old self again; her blues were gone, she was in high feather. [5]
When she awoke she had changed, she was her old self, as in Paris, when she had first confessed her love. [11]
When one is shaking between life and death, one thinks most of one's self. [11]
Its note is self-analysis, searching, unsparing, leaving no room for the deception of self or of the world. [4]
Had her Other Self, waking from sleep in the eternal spaces, bethought itself and come to whisper and warn and help? [11]
That's identifying one's self with the cause. [4]
His other self--the self which recognized the equality of all men--would have managed the thing better, if it hadn't been caught off guard and robbed of its chance. [5]
Vulgarity, one can see, consists in making one's self a part of the display of wealth: the thing to be attained is personal simplicity on a background of the richest ostentation. [4]
Goodness reveals another scene and another self seemingly rolled up in shades, but brought to light by the evolutions of advancing thought, whereby we discern the power of Truth and Love to heal the sick. [5]
This effort to save his own soul was common to Goethe and Francis of Assisi; under different manifestations it was the same regard for self. [4]
Could she not save him, win him, wake him, cure him of the disease of Self? [11]
Dah, now--de preacher said it his own self, en it ain't no sin, 'ca'se white folks done it. [5]
At first the reveries into which she often sank, and which were so unlike her former self, had been still worse. [10]
And introspection was revealing a crack--after so many years--in that self that he had believed to be so strongly welded. [9]
You ain't only reskin' yo' own self, but you's reskin' us--same way like Anna Nias en Siffra. [5]
I no longer resembled my former self. [5]
When he finally reported that he himself and the ladies must leave the house and the city, Countess Rotterbach, with a scornful glance at her deeply humiliated son-in-law, exclaimed, "This is what comes of throwing one's self away! [10]
So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have never been so suddenly dashed as in his fall. [7]
He's full of pomp and circumstance and self complacency and bad grammar, and at table he is Sir Oracle and when he opens his mouth not any dog in the kennel barks. [5]
But then again Philip sighed from the bottom of his heart, and she could contain her self no longer. [10]
I beg your pardon for being a bore to one I so deeply love and admire, to whom I owe days and days of forgetfulness of self and troubles and the intensest of all joys: Hero-worship! [5]
It is your own inmost self that is your enemy; bury yourself in what desert you will, it will pursue you, and it would be easier for you to cut off your shadow than to leave that behind? [10]
Was it that Other Self which is allowed to come to us as our trouble or our doom approaches, who called sharply in his ear as De Lancy Scovel said, "Byng ought to get up earlier in the morning--much earlier. [11]
They watched as one would watch an enemy a hundred times stronger than one's self. [11]
There is only one way to get rid of them: that which an old sea-captain mentioned to me, namely, to keep one's self under opiates until he wakes up in the harbor where he is bound. [6]
Yet behind the one idea possessing her there was a subconscious self taking note of all these sights and sounds, and bringing moisture to her eyes. [11]
To the rest of us she said: "One had to save one's self, and Amshar was a coward. [11]
And the train of thought hurdled the rising, crying protests of that other self whose poise she had lost. [13]
But in spite of their influence and of all the work they have done, there isn't one of them to whom one can give one's self up without reservation, not one whose ideas seem based on the deep foundation of all true philosophy,--except Mark Twain. [5]
His was one of the Union houses which she might visit and not lose her self respect. [9]
In the stillness of the desert he had perceived what had brought all this terrible suffering upon him; but he would not repeat it to himself now, for he felt within his soul the power to remain faithful to his best self in the future. [10]
She was capable of taking care of herself, she was a good stenographer, her salary had been raised twice in two years,--why should she allow consideration for her family to stand in the way of what she felt would be self realization? [9]
Apart from consciousness of self no observation or application of reason is conceivable. [2]
And the brood of Rameses shall learn whether your husband's son will let himself be ill-used and scorned without revenging him self. [10]
For six months, now, the village has been its own proper self once more--honest, narrow, self-righteous, and stingy. [5]
He had come now, so as to give her time to prepare her self in every respect. [10]
But it is not sufficient to murmur the name to one's self, or be able to write it down. [10]
If she could not contrive to help her self she was a prisoner, and without air, light, and freedom she could not live. [10]
Was it the night breeze that almost imperceptibly raised and lowered it, or was her own dear self concealed behind it? [10]
The great man naturally rose to the situation and dealt with it coolly; but he paid the price afterwards in his sleep when, night after night, he performed the operation over and over again with the same strain on his subconscious self. [11]
I have left my starry and ethereal companionship,--not for a long time, I hope, for it has lifted me above my common self, but for a while. [6]
I said to my self, this creature is planning some new outrage, some fresh deviltry or other--no horse ever thought over a subject so profoundly as this one is doing just for nothing. [5]
In the By-laws, Mrs. Eddy, speaking by the mouth of her other self, the Mother-Church, proclaims that she will assume no official control of other churches-branch churches. [5]
It is a man's true self, so that it follows that absolute, supreme self-reliance is the law of his being. [6]
Better than any man that lives; for he is the head devil of this world his own self, he is the match of the whole of them combined, and probably the father of most of them. [5]
Perhaps; well, the little things to which one has accustomed one's self are generally the hardest to give up. [10]

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