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Example sentences for "acquitted himself"

  • On all occasions he acquitted himself nobly.

  • In all the multiform duties that devolved upon him in the various public stations he filled he acquitted himself nobly.

  • In all his public stations he acquitted himself nobly--in private life he had the esteem of a large concourse of friends.

  • In this office he acquitted himself well.

  • As a public man he acquitted himself well.

  • Mr. Gibson has led a busy and useful life and has acquitted himself well in the various positions of responsibility to which he has been called.

  • Vincenzio, then, working in company with many others in the Papal Loggie for the gracious Raffaello da Urbino, acquitted himself in such a manner that he was much extolled by Raffaello and by all the others.

  • Marco; in which he acquitted himself so well, that he was afterwards able to make by himself alone the statues of marble and the Prophets that he executed, as has been related, at the Madonna of Loreto.

  • A little before, his children were brought to him, all crying about him; but he acquitted himself of these last adewes with much composure, shewing nothing of weakness and unmanliness.

  • Settle, having a mechanical turn, was also employed as chief engineer at the solemn pope-burning, which we have so often mentioned; in which charge he acquitted himself much to the satisfaction of his employers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquitted himself; battle ship; first cousins; general results; glass beads; great man; historical materialism; indirect taxes; kind and; later writers; letter writing; merciful unto; pony express; seventy thousand; slight modifications; such manner; taking them; tell her; term applied; took place; upper leaves; you good