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Sentences ending with themselves

They would tell you so themselves. [5]
And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
Refrain from everything with which the Greeks intoxicate themselves. [10]
It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign with themselves. [7]
We will uphold William with our fortunes and our lives for, as I have already said, we need a sun, that is, a monarch--but the cities think they have power to shine and wish to be admired as bright stars themselves. [10]
Doubtless local uprisings will for a time continue to occur, but these can be met by detachments and local forces of our own, and will ere long tire out of themselves. [7]
Others there were who were sick of the world and wished "to be well out of it"--as they said to themselves. [11]
The mosaic workers, who were making the floor of the great hall, had surpassed themselves. [10]
The modest Northerners who have got hold of it, and staked it all out into city lots, seem to want to keep it all to themselves. [4]
In a little while the two met at the bottom of the lane, and when they reached the school they had it all to themselves. [5]

Short sentences using themselves

They needn't trouble themselves! [2]
Only to distinguish themselves! [2]
They call themselves 'The Riders. [13]
Kings will fall of themselves. [9]
A little--self-assertive, sure of themselves. [9]
They need no fumigation themselves. [5]
Even the wise forget themselves. [9]
These facts speak for themselves. [5]
Extravagances of opinion cure themselves. [6]
The men were crossing themselves. [2]

Sentences containing themselves two or more times

The swell people wouldn't call anybody but themselves 'clean,' and those others would drop sort of meekly into their way of talking and they wouldn't call themselves clean. [5]
In another corner two old bees are languidly fighting, or cleaning themselves, or feeding one another, without themselves knowing whether they do it with friendly or hostile intent. [2]
They know how to avail themselves of their altered position, and soon learn to charge city prices for country products; but nothing can make people feel rich who see themselves surrounded by men whose yearly income is many times their own whole capital. [6]
Neither did his thoughts spread themselves out and link themselves as I have displayed them. [6]
The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still harder from behind. [2]
Many had made themselves disagreeable to their neighbours by their caustic criticisms and ill-natured complaints, at the same time bringing misfortune upon themselves by a most curious exhibition of their own faults. [10]
Farther away from the road flowers of even greater beauty blow, seen by no mortal eye; they deck themselves in beauty for no one but for their Creator, and because they rejoice in themselves. [10]
As Cambyses entered the hall, nearly every one present prostrated themselves before him; his relations alone, distinguished by the blue and white fillet on the tiara, contented themselves with a deferential obeisance. [10]
She was expressing that wonder which so many people feel at discovering in themselves long-concealed characteristics, or find themselves doing things out of their natural orbit, as they think. [11]
All through this tale my heart beat higher; I secretly hoped that peradventure my brothers had come home with Gotz, and were hiding themselves away, only for some reason privy to themselves. [10]

More example sentences with the word themselves in them

I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
I am helping your family congratulate themselves, and am your friend as always. [5]
A party of young Puan bucks had decreed it to be their pleasure to encamp in Mr. Brady's yard, to peer through the shutters into Mr. Brady's house, to enjoy themselves by annoying Mr. Brady's family and others as much as possible. [9]
Numbers of the young men took the paint and painted themselves, and one of the party took the head by the hair and said-- 'Look, you ugly thing, and see your paints on the faces of warriors. [5]
I advise aimless young men to choose some profession without needless delay, and so get into a good strong current of human affairs, and find themselves bound up in interests with a compact body of their fellow-men. [6]
Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. [5]
We never even wrote you, because we were always so sure, from day to day, that our affairs would finally so shape themselves as to let us get to Scotland. [5]
We need not write their names on these walls, after the fashion of those civic dignitaries who immortalize themselves on tablets of marble and gates of iron. [3]
He and Cloud-in-the-Sky wrapped themselves in their blankets like mummies, covering the head completely, and under the arctic sky they slept alone in an austere and tenantless world. [11]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
These dumb cattle would not learn it of themselves, and so the murrain of Homoeopathy fell on them. [6]
I repeat, I would not introduce this mode of discussion here; but I wish gentlemen on the other side to understand that the use of degrading figures is a game at which they may not find themselves able to take all the winnings. [7]
The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
Some people, sir, would have--' 'Some people would have spared themselves the jabbering of such a parrot as you,' interposed the dwarf. [12]
Nobody, I suppose, would doubt this story if the moose, quaffing deep draughts of red wine from silver tankards, and then throwing themselves back upon divans, and lazily puffing the fragrant Havana. [4]
I wish you would do me the kindness to make any and all corrections that suggest themselves to you. [5]
It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
If, when the worst should come to the worst, they meant to overthrow the government, they also meant to inherit the assets themselves, no doubt. [5]
The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse. [5]
After that, a world of tumbling and prodigious clouds came drifting up out of the West and took to themselves a wonderfully rich and brilliant green color--the decided green of new spring foliage. [5]
The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge about after supper. [4]
Poor folks must work for themselves, and not for others. [10]
Even the policemen wore happy smiles, and in some instances the election officers themselves in absent-minded exuberance thrust bunches of ballots into the boxes! [9]
Suddenly the man's words began to repeat themselves in Enderby's head: "To-night the King sleeps at Sutterby on the Wolds. [11]
The sky, the woods, the waters, the storms, life, death love, the hope and vision of eternity,--these are images that write themselves in poetry in every soul which has anything of the divine gift. [6]
And he was wont to leave his weighty business affairs to shift for themselves while he attended the diocesan and general conventions of his Church. [9]
We need not wonder that our young men are beginning to announce themselves not only as graduates of this or that College, but also as pupils of some one distinguished master. [3]
What if their wives are fond, after the decease of their husbands, to bestow themselves not so advisedly as their calling requireth; do not duchesses, countesses, and knights' wives offend in the like fully so often as they? [4]
They quarter themselves without special invitation upon the members of the inviting church. [4]
To intoxicate themselves with wine, the gift of the god to whom they were paying homage, was not only permitted, but commanded, and the juice of the grape proved its all-equalizing power. [10]
Side by side with them the Berkshires cursed and raged and had their way; and when the Sikhs drew over and laid themselves along the English lines a wild cheer went up from the Berkshires. [11]
They strode along, with their arms projecting straight out from their bodies; they did not hold them out themselves, but fellow-students walked beside them and gave the needed support. [5]
These territories, together with the States themselves, constitute all the country over which the Confederacy then claimed any sort of jurisdiction. [7]
Most self-made Englishmen, with such a burly exterior and energy, and engaged in such pursuits, could not, to save themselves from hanging, have impressed her as Mr. Vandewaters did. [11]
He warned her, with special earnestness, not to allow herself to be used by others to win favour or pardon for themselves or their kindred. [10]
They burdened her with long interrogatories of two or three hours, from which the judges themselves went forth fatigued. [5]
They flung themselves with fury on the foes that surrounded him, dealing death as they advanced, and putting the Cheta to flight, and soon Rameses saw himself safe, and protected by his followers. [10]
They do not wish to array themselves against all the Lamartines and Grimeses in the world. [5]
Neither do the wise ones beat themselves uselessly against brick or stone. [9]
There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
In the sharp wind the trees shook themselves angrily free of leaves. [11]
It probably never will; but for all that, there are many shy natures which will recognize tendencies in themselves in the direction of my unhappy susceptibility. [6]
I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent. [6]
Their wounded pride will bring them over to our side, and if they are too 'noble,' as they call it, to undertake anything themselves against a woman, still they will be more likely to help than to hinder us, if I should need their assistance. [10]
So the thousand wild cat shafts burrowed deeper and deeper into the earth day by day, and all men were beside themselves with hope and happiness. [5]
As Pierre said, whose wisdom was more to be trusted than his general morality, "It is strange that most men think not enough of themselves till a woman shows them how. [11]
They were united, wholly united, there was nothing except themselves, and thus they became to each other an especially blissful world, beside which every other created thing sank into nothingness. [10]
Had the men who were to arrest him or inquisitive visitors not allowed themselves to be deterred even by the late hour? [10]
The decorous families who were now allying themselves with St. John's did so at the expense of other churches either more radical or less fashionable. [9]
But this, Martin, who was only intent upon loading the return ship with "his phantastical gold," opposed, and Nelson did not think he had authority to allow it, unless they would bind themselves to pay the hire of the ships. [4]
The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile. [2]
There are some who say that those are happiest who keep at home and content themselves with reading about the lands of the imagination. [4]
The young fellows who prided themselves upon a neat buggy and a fast horse made their turnouts shine, and dashed past the inn with a self-conscious air. [4]
We have men who ought to have been born in England, and who only find themselves really they go there. [4]
The unassuming man, who on the journey had associated as familiarly with the poor invalids he had picked up by the wayside, the tavern-keepers, and soldiers of his escort, as if he were one of themselves, now seemed a very different person. [10]
The same people, who know each other perfectly well, will enjoy themselves together without restraint in their ordinary apparel. [4]
So both those who knew and those who did not know deceived themselves, and pushed on to Smolensk as to a promised land. [2]
If the Kanakas who have been caring for him (inveterate riders they are) have not ridden him half to death every day themselves, you can depend upon it they have been doing the same thing by proxy, by clandestinely hiring him out. [5]
The few inhabitants who had remained invited commanding officers to their houses, hoping thereby to secure themselves from being plundered. [2]
I mean those who give themselves up to the unction of the reform. [4]
The younger men, who followed him, whispered among themselves, shaking their heads as though some miracle had been performed; and every eye that looked on him was radiant with enthusiastic veneration. [10]
And the men who commit these crimes, especially their leader, assure themselves that this is admirable, this is glory--it resembles Caesar and Alexander the Great and is therefore good. [2]
The loyal hangers-on, who believed in divine right, were too proud of the company they found themselves in to make any such humiliating admission. [6]
Woe to those who allow themselves to be tempted on board by the magnificence of its decorations! [10]
The yachts were whiter, the water bluer, the grass greener; the stern grey rocks themselves flushed with purple. [9]
A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel registers! [5]
The occasions on which these notes were written, will explain themselves. [14]
The scorn with which the rebels, after the compromise signed by the highest nobles, had called themselves Geusen, or Beggars, and endangered repose, would have been worthy of the severest punishment. [10]
During the ecossaise, which she also danced with him, Anatole said nothing when they happened to be by themselves, but merely gazed at her. [2]
The conditions in which our vast community of peace-loving citizens find themselves are new and unprovided for. [6]
The narrow inlets which I have mentioned go wandering out into the land everywhere and hiding themselves in it, and pleasure-launches are always exploring them with picnic parties on board. [5]
The two catalogues which herald his coming are themselves interesting literary documents. [6]
The only thing which gave either any chance was the very thing Baker & I proposed,--an adjustment with themselves. [7]
Strange circumstances occurred which connected themselves with him in an ominous and unaccountable way. [6]
I don't know whether these reformers who carry the world on their shoulders in such serious fashion, especially the little fussy fellows, who are themselves the standard of the regeneration they seek, are more ludicrous than pathetic. [4]
Not far from where the mule train crept along was a great hole in the mountain-side, as though antique giants of the hills had tunnelled through to make themselves a home or to find the eternal secret of the mountains. [11]
They proved it when, to stand by their convictions, they put themselves and their families at the mercy of a problematical future; and when, in advanced years, they undertook the gigantic work of compiling so large and profound a German dictionary. [10]
There are times when our friends do not act like themselves, but apparently in obedience to some other law than that of their own proper nature. [6]
But the porpoises wheeled themselves away, and then we were thrown upon our own resources. [5]
Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. [7]
And wondering at what their eyes had seen, they went down into the city and purchased garments and clothed themselves. [5]
Let me explain what I mean, so that my readers may think for themselves a little, before they accuse me of hasty expressions. [6]
Wallstein, Wolff, Barry Whalen, Fleming, Hungerford, Reuter, and the others of the inner circle he laughed at in a good-natured way for coddling themselves, and called them--not without some truth--valetudinarians. [11]
They won that western country for themselves with no Federal nor Virginia or North Carolina troops to help them. [9]
To these considerations were to be joined other circumstances which we need not here mention, of a nature to add greatly to their force, and which would go far of themselves to determine his action. [6]
Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. [2]
Among those who were rich in spirit her brother Philip was certainly one of the richest, and whither had an acute understanding and restless brain led him that they so seldom gave his feelings time to make themselves heard? [10]
The aristocratic travellers were probably cleansing themselves from the dust of the road before they entered the taproom. [10]
Commands, threats, punishments, were out of the question with her; the mere physical effects of crossing her will betrayed themselves in such changes of expression and manner that it would have been senseless to attempt to govern her in any such way. [6]
The two Napoleons were offered--more if necessary--and pilgrims and dragoman shouted themselves hoarse with pleadings to the retreating boatmen to come back. [5]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
But the rooms were large, and they grouped themselves in a reminiscence of the time when they were part of a dwelling that had its charm, its pathos, its impressiveness. [8]
Two of these were killed by the Boers themselves, by accident, the other by Jameson's army--one of them intentionally, the other by a pathetic mischance. [5]
The streets themselves were just as crowded with quartz wagons, freight teams and other vehicles. [5]
If these ladies were hogs to everybody and to themselves, it would be necessary to break the enchantment, and that might be impossible if one failed to find out the particular process of the enchantment. [5]
The intellectual interests were first with her, but she might be equal to sacrificing them; she had the best heart, but she might know how to harden it; if she was eccentric, her social orbit was defined; comets themselves traverse space on fixed lines. [8]
While my friends were enjoying themselves in ball-rooms or exciting society, Fate still condemned me to careful seclusion in my mother's house. [10]
The three soldiers were eating and talking among themselves, taking no notice of him. [2]

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