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Example sentences for "bring herself"

  • She could not reproach him --which perhaps in any event she would have been too wise to do; but she could not, try as she would, bring herself to the point of a discussion of their situation.

  • Her excitement deepened, and she found it difficult to bring herself to the realization that her destination was a church--the church of her childhood.

  • It seemed evident that Daisy could not bring herself to speak at present, and Muriel went to bed with a heavy heart.

  • He had no part in her present, and the future she could not bring herself to contemplate.

  • But even then she could not bring herself to tell him that she did love him.

  • She would go home to Loring, and try to bring herself to accept him.

  • Another hour went by before she took herself to her bed, during which her cruelly used maiden was waiting for her half asleep in the chamber above; and during that time she tried to bring herself to some steady resolve.

  • But still she was afraid of Sophie, and felt that she could not bring herself absolutely to dismiss her friend from her house.

  • In spite both of gods and men, the thing was so grievous to Cecilia Burton that she could not bring herself to acknowledge that it was possible.

  • His voice was so solemn, and there was so much of eager seriousness in his face that Fanny could not bring herself to answer him with quickness.

  • He would run after neither Lord Cashel nor his niece; he would not even ask her to change her mind, since she had been able to bring herself to such a determination as that expressed to him.

  • She foresaw that if she were turned away from the door of St. Joseph's, she would never come back; never would she be able to bring herself to the point again.

  • It was so unlike herself that she could not bring herself to send it.

  • She had intended to buy another, but had not been able to bring herself to do so, so hypocritical did it seem.

  • She was quite alone, having felt that she could not bring herself to give the affectionate embrace which the presence of others would require.

  • And yet she could not quite bring herself to express her wish either to the man or to the woman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bring about; bring back; bring down; bring forward; bring herself; bring him; bring himself; bring myself; bring peace; bring the; bring thee; bring together; bringeth forth; bringing about; bringing them; cannot conceive; follow the; human food; marched back; muscular tissue; ornamented with; shine before; twentieth part; various persons; water will; whom thou