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Example sentences for "assured himself"

  • He had intended, he assured himself, to dine at his club, to spend the evening there sportively, to be pleasant among his chosen companions.

  • He, too, in his manner, assured himself that a great part of him would escape Oblivion.

  • But he assured himself that he wasn't going to give himself any 'd---d trouble.

  • As he walked up and down the road he assured himself that he had never really thought of doing it.

  • As he returned to the house he assured himself that he had never intended anything more.

  • He took it, he assured himself afterward, without winking; but it is unlikely that he felt sufficiently indebted to the manner of its administration, in congratulating himself upon this point.

  • As he thought of it he assured himself that it was London, and his irritation vanished at the thought of the futility of Elfrida in London.

  • I will never tell her," he assured himself; the words stabbed him, but he meant them.

  • Not, he assured himself, that he had the slightest misgiving as to the effect upon her of the arguments to which he had been obliged to listen, but.

  • Such reflections proved, so he assured himself, how entirely he knew that she belonged to David.

  • To-night it seemed to him that he had reached full manhood, and in the first flush of realization he assured himself that he could no longer drift with the aimless current of events, but must begin to shape affairs to his own ends.

  • She was a thoroughbred, that he assured himself.

  • Linton listened to it with a thrill, and he assured himself that he had never heard music of such soul-satisfying sweetness as issued from the nostrils of his new partner.

  • As a matter of fact, he assured himself, the Countess Courteau was an exceptional woman; she was quite different from the other members of her sex and the rules of decorum which obtained for them did not obtain for her.

  • His work was the best of him, he assured himself, and he would stand or fall with it.

  • And yet," he assured himself repeatedly, "I'm on the right track.

  • I have got to tell somebody about this," he assured himself.

  • Throughout the volume I have, so far as possible, referred to works that can be consulted in Calcutta in the libraries of the Indian Museum, the Geological Survey of India, or the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

  • I've almost got it," he assured himself, gritting his teeth desperately.

  • It was, he assured himself hotly, one of the things from which he must save her.

  • Seeing it, he assured himself, she would believe it, more fully than any one else would believe it.

  • Why, it's really not so bad," he assured himself, when before the mirror he tried to judge the effect.

  • Fatuous, that's what George is, utterly fatuous," he assured himself as he hurried down the steps.

  • He assured himself he should have made a fight for it; should have fought for his wife: and against Maddox.

  • This he assured himself would be possible only after many years had aged him and turned his hair gray.

  • He assured himself of that, smiling grimly in the darkness.

  • He assured himself that by this time they were probably in London and he made his plans accordingly.

  • However, he assured himself of two things; he was comparatively comfortable, and within two hours at the most they would reach Hodges' headquarters, if the Wekusko camp were really to be their destination.

  • Well, he had surprised several things, so he assured himself, but he had not seen Leslie.

  • Nor did the quantities of veeskysoda consumed by the unhappy nobleman help him bear it, though undoubtedly he assured himself it did.

  • Once more Will stood on the line and this time there would be no "sneaking," he assured himself.

  • And he intended to keep it too, he assured himself.

  • If he could gain a place near that, he assured himself he would be able to know if anything occurred below, and at the same time he himself would be secure from observation.

  • I'll use it a lot more," he assured himself.

  • But first I'll keep my promise to Meg," he assured himself before he fell asleep.

  • After a full hour of serious thinking he decided on a very definite course of action which, he assured himself, should be begun on the very next day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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