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Example sentences for "allowed myself"

  • Every fourth day I allowed myself a short constitutional.

  • At last I allowed myself to be persuaded not to postpone the first performance any longer, and I decided to use the Hall of Karl the Great out of Oberon, originally suggested to me by Luttichau, instead of the real thing.

  • During my studies with Weinlich the only little dissipation I allowed myself was my daily evening visit to Kintschy, the confectioner in the Klostergasse, where I passionately devoured the latest newspapers.

  • This paper which I allowed myself to hand to your majesty, and which you laid upon the table without reading.

  • I allowed myself to be deceived because of your loveliness and because I saw the golden reward which your deceitful love would bring me.

  • I allowed myself to be allured by your beauty, knowing well that it would draw me into a frightful abyss.

  • I allowed myself to be cheated, by temptations of the devil, out of my own reason, and out of my immortal soul.

  • Why had I allowed myself to be caught in such a trap?

  • The glances I allowed myself to cast in his direction were fleeting enough, however.

  • The light around me now changed to waves of intense luminance which swept upon me like waves of the sea--and I allowed myself to be borne along with them, I knew not whither.

  • And yet I allowed myself to be moved by vague uneasiness on this account, and could not entirely regain perfect composure.

  • Towards evening I took the young lady in my gondola back to the house, but wishing to shorten the journey I allowed myself to indulge in a few caresses.

  • Never had I given her a kiss, never had I allowed myself to undress in her presence, and never (with one exception) had she come into my room without being properly dressed.

  • I allowed myself to be managed like a child; and instead of scratching the face of M.

  • The greater part of the time I did not know how to defend myself from her--at once so natural and so perfidious; and occasionally I allowed myself to love her with all my heart, so much did she seem to cherish me with all enthusiasm.

  • But as the air cooled my fever my steps slackened their speed, my judgment began to reassert its rule, and I saw that I should make a huge mistake if I allowed myself to be led in such a crisis by the mere impulses of blind rage.

  • I allowed myself to appear to share his convictions, even while I marvelled at the depth of his duplicity, and I then told him the plan of our movements.

  • Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them; and, forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

  • I must perform my engagement, and let the monster depart with his mate, before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of an union from which I expected peace.

  • Sometimes, however, after dinner on Sunday, I allowed myself a recreation which may seem strange to many of my readers: I went to the fairs round Paris, and studied the mountebanks.

  • All I allowed myself was to set down by stealth on paper a few ideas that occurred to me, though I did not know whether I should ever have a chance to put them in practice.

  • These few hours devoted to my family were the only amusements I allowed myself.

  • Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

  • I must perform my engagement and let the monster depart with his mate before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expected peace.

  • I did not feel much inclination for the trip, but I allowed myself to be blinded by the wish to cover the amount which I had guaranteed, and which I had no doubt I would be called upon to pay some day or other.

  • We were following the Bucentoro, and seated near the lady I allowed myself a few slight liberties, but she foiled my intentions by changing her seat.

  • He threw so much kindness, so much unction, into his entreaties that, through weakness and weariness, I allowed myself to be persuaded.

  • Even so,mistakes were made, and less favorable outcomes became a source of bitter resentment if I allowed myself to stew in their memory.

  • It was difficult to maintain my courage after hearing such threats, but I knew that if I allowed myself to cower in fear before the aggressive words, the likelihood of my avoiding further taunts would have been reduced.

  • Rather than risking a relationship due to a brash, beseeching plea for peace on my behalf, I allowed myself to rend internally, leaving a tattered remnant of myself at the summer's end.

  • I allowed myself to be made miserable for so long by a person who was no more than a character out of a novel--one of the black sheep hero novels?

  • I allowed myself to be driven into marrying him when all the time I did not even like him.

  • I could never doubt you, and that is why I tell you now that I allowed myself to be persuaded by my poor mother into marrying that man.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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