Again he asked himself if she could have known Gideon Vetch in the past?
Why, in thunder, he asked himself, had he stayed so long?
How in the world, he asked himself, did she happen to be his daughter?
He asked himself that, as he rubbed at the back of his head.
But is it usual; he asked himself--his natural veneration framing the rebuke to his master thus--to repay the services of a lady so warmly?
After entreaties and reasons intermixed, to melt her resolve, he saw she was firm: and he asked himself, whether he might not be constitutionally better adapted to persuade than to dissuade.
This continued so long, that Maxime, who had of late heard much of diseases of the brain, asked himself if Daniel could possibly have lost his mind.
But then again, heasked himself why he should expose himself to the question.
Am I a child still, he asked himself, that can be knocked about hither and thither, that must obey and ask for no reason?
Sonnenkamp stood in the hot-house near the palms; he felt chilly; then he asked himself: "Why does not the child love you?
As he thought further he remembered that all things work together for good to them that love God; was it possible, he asked himself, that he too, however imperfectly, had been trying to love him?
What should he have done, he asked himself, if he had not made his present discovery till years later when he was more deeply committed to the life of a clergyman?
Where, where, he asked himself, was it all to end?
Again he experienced that compassion for her, in the midst of his pride and exultation; he asked himself what he could do to help her; he did not see how she could be changed.
He asked himself at the same time and perpetually, whether he was really engaged to Statira or not.
They made together a brightness vast and intense, a brightness in which the mere chapel of his thoughts grew so dim that as it faded away he asked himself if he shouldn't find his real comfort in some material act, some outward worship.
At the last, however, he asked himself if he was to stay away for ever from the fear of this muddle about motives.
He challenged himself, denounced himself, asked himself if he were in love with her that he should care so much what adventures she had had.
At first he asked himself how he should get away; then, with the failing belief in the power, the very desire to move gradually left him.
But the idea of God did not arrest his attention, and his thoughts fixing themselves on the child, he asked himself, what was this new life to him?
Was it possible, he asked himself, that she would never love him again?
Kate did not answer him, and he heard her trying to get undressed, and wondering at her clumsiness he asked himself if he should propose to unlace her stays for her.
He asked himself whether he, who had no cause of complaint against the Spaniards, had any right to join those who were meditating their ruin.
He asked himself to whom this ring could belong, for it was not probable that an Indian had lost it: moreover, he fancied that he had already seen one like it, though he could not remember on whose finger.
He asked himself if there was not some connection between Negoro's fall and the breaking of the first compass.
He asked himself if he could not do more than give his life for his benefactors, and he accepted in advance all the trials which might come upon him in the future.
Dick Sand, who was watching the animal--for all was danger--asked himself if some beast or some native was not concealed in the high papyrus of the bank.
What chance was there, then, he asked himself, for one without any advantages, even were the happiest explanation to be given to the mystery of his own early history?
Which way, he asked himself, could he turn for help or advice?
He had then, for the first time, asked himself, "Who and what am I?
He asked himself this, and perceived that his uneasiness was due to one of those half-formed and secret ideas which one hides from even one's self, and only discovers when fathoming one's self to the very bottom.
From time to time his teeth absolutely chattered, and he asked himself: "Has my adversary been out before?
But he felt so deeply moved that he asked himself: "Can one be afraid in spite of one's self?
Suddenly heasked himself how it was that he had so soon become different from his usual self.
He had hardly awakened the next morning before he asked himself what he should do.
But must the price of success, he asked himself, always be so great?
He asked himself why it was he always hesitated before this particular young woman.
And he asked himself in sudden indeterminate terror if this was the sort of thing he was to waste his days over.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asked himself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
