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Example sentences for "asked myself"

  • I took up a book, and began to read; but the thoughts of Linny Hallett and Mr Lister kept coming into my head, and I asked myself whether I ought not to tell Miss Carr.

  • I asked myself as I walked on, drinking in the deliciously sweet morning scents, and listening to the songs of the birds and the hum of the insects in the bright June sunshine.

  • I asked myself, for I could go no farther, and a feeling of desolation began to make my heart sink.

  • Why not do so, then, I asked myself; and immediately my better self rejected the idea as impossible.

  • There was none other except her precious and beautiful face in the world; and for a wild instant I asked myself if she had come here to see me, to take back all her cruel words of misunderstanding, and to take me hack also.

  • Could it be Bob West, I asked myself, as I half-dazedly looked for a place to sit down among the litter of small luggage with which the first occupant of the carriage had strewn every seat.

  • Thereupon I asked myself, Why should I wait for death to release me?

  • Could I, I asked myself, be the same person as the little boy she took to school at Plymouth?

  • Could that some one, I asked myself, have been Juanita?

  • I asked myself, peering through the doorway; and as we stepped out I heard again that ominous whirring.

  • Was it not possible, I asked myself, that the lantern, being always hung on the same projection, was thus in the way of a current of air passing down the trunk of the tree when a gust of wind struck its lofty branches?

  • I asked myself, as we all proceeded to the deck.

  • I asked myself, regarding him with amazement.

  • I asked myself, unconsciously taking on an air of determination, as I remembered I was prejudiced in his favor, and wished to believe him innocent of this crime.

  • I asked myself, as I hurriedly followed, "that it is Mr. Barrows she is going to marry?

  • I asked myself if this was the time for me to speak of that claim, to speak my whole heart to her.

  • Thinking of these things, I asked myself if the life I had left was not far better than the one I had chosen; if the highest reward for my coming years of labor would not be the right to return to it.

  • Over the plain, just beyond the mountains, I saw Penelope in my visionary eye, and I asked myself if I should find another in that coveted place from which I was barred.

  • I asked myself in cold blood, was I not really becoming mad--was I still mistress of my reason?

  • I asked myself in despair what was to become of me.

  • And greatly moved, I asked myself: "Have they understood?

  • But I asked myself, why did the Queen never leave the archangel and me alone?

  • How, I asked myself, could the man who wrote the "Nuptials of Attila" write this?

  • I asked myself a thousand times by day, and a thousand times by night.

  • I asked myself, and my heart was weary and hopeless.

  • I asked myself; and feeling bound to apologise for the appearance of the city, I explained to my valet that we were passing through some by-streets, and returned to the study of a French vocabulary.

  • Yet I asked myself repeatedly: Did she not know of it?

  • But just now I asked myself: but can I write, knowing that no one will read?

  • I prayed like this, then rose, walked to the end of the room and suddenly I asked myself: Have I not to yield?

  • I asked myself, 'Why this strange sensation of well-being and of joy?

  • I glanced at him quickly, questioning his face, and I asked myself: "'Is he an insane man or a practical joker?

  • When my servant had left the room, after I had dined, I asked myself what I was going to do.

  • Was it worth while now, I asked myself, to disturb the peace of that mind?

  • I asked myself no questions And so we went on loving jointly, Jake and I, the companionship of our passion apparently stimulating our romance as companionship at a meal stimulates the appetite of the diners.

  • I asked myself whether I was jealous of him, and the question seemed so incongruous, so remote.

  • So I asked myself then," he said, "what's the use of going on?

  • What, I asked myself, if the frozen folk were coming to life?

  • Why not give up, I asked myself--and all of a sudden I got the answer.

  • But I asked myself, since she had said so much, knowing so little of me, what would she have said had she known the truth?

  • Would he stop at the mast, I asked myself?

  • I asked myself, and even in the asking laughed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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