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Example sentences for "among themselves"

  • After they had divided the empire among themselves it was impossible to preserve harmony and war was undertaken in Italy.

  • There were some men who were called Equals, but only because they were equal among themselves.

  • In many cities they took this oath among themselves: "I swear always to be an enemy to the people and to do them all the injury I can.

  • They fell out, at Romanno, among themselves, about dividing the spoil they had got at Haddington, and fought it manfully.

  • Of the New Caledonians Mr. Atkinson states that, among themselves, they are "of a generosity that seems to arise mainly from aversion to refuse any request.

  • There were plenty of composers who could write works inferior to Guillaume Tell, and to them he left the kingdom of opera, to be divided as they might arrange it among themselves.

  • Although on our quitting Fukui, they sent men before us to sweep the road ahead, our guards were rude, and chaffed about us among themselves.

  • We did not wish to interfere, and were quite content that the Japanese should settle their internal disputes among themselves.

  • To another question as to the form of government that had been set up at Kioto, he replied that the Mikado ruled nominally, but that Kioto was occupied by a set of men who did nothing but quarrel among themselves, anything but govern.

  • They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves.

  • The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves.

  • Besides, the yeomanry by the said orders were to have the journeymen's quarteridges for their pains, but now being by them dismissed they gather the quarteridges and share it among themselves.

  • No, they were after gathered and embodied among themselves by other church acts (Acts 16).

  • Among themselves or their relatives the Sansias or descendants of Sains Mul, they are called Dholi or Kolhati.

  • The Khedawals of the Central Provinces formerly married only among themselves, but since the railway has been opened intermarriage with their caste-fellows in Gujarat has been resumed.

  • After a Panka funeral the mourners bathe and then break a cocoanut over the grave and distribute it among themselves.

  • The three divisions of the caste known by the names given above marry, as a rule, among themselves.

  • Among themselves, the Coras use their own language, but all the men and most of the women speak and understand Spanish to some extent.

  • They still speak it among themselves, though there are but few who do not understand Spanish.

  • This counsel appeared to Bjorn and Ingebjorg to be the wisest, and they resolved upon it among themselves.

  • The chiefs now weighed the matter among themselves, and each gave his own opinion about the journey.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    among animals; among other; among ourselves; among primitive; among the; among them; among whom; among world; amongst many; amongst other; amongst others; amongst the; amongst them; black night; che non; free institutions; other cities; peculiar form; personal recollections; quite sufficient; quite useless; spinal axis; sweet lord; taken back; then cover; you expect