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Example sentences for "call himself"

  • Upon this Lord Hampstead would have promised to call himself at King's Court on the next day, had not the Quaker declared himself in favour of writing rather than of speaking.

  • It was within his power to call himself and to have himself called by this new name.

  • But no property would thus be affected,--nor would it rob him, the younger son, of his right to call himself also by the title.

  • If he does not, he has no more right to call himself a Christian than we have to be designated a Buddhist or a Mohammedan.

  • A French sceptic no more hesitates to call himself an Atheist than to call himself a Republican.

  • Baron de Gingins la Sarraz quotes a charter of his (drawn up when he seems to have doubted whether to call himself king) which begins, 'Ego Boso Dei gratia id quod sum, et coniux mea Irmingardis proles imperialis.

  • There does not seem to be much justification for Basri Bey to call himself a prince.

  • Goad, or Captain Goad as he has the right to call himself.

  • Presumably the mayor did not propose to allow anyone who had then been described as an Italian now to call himself Croat.

  • Some, as Franzelin, hold that Christ here proves both that He is God, and that He has a right to call Himself God.

  • We may suppose that the former party would press this argument upon the others; 'But if He is the Christ, why has He not courage to call Himself by that name?

  • In the last century among ourselves Smithson thought good to call himself Percy, and the world believes that he is Percy.

  • Still a prince who called himself Emperor, but did not dare to call himself Emperor of the Romans, proclaimed himself by his very style to be, to use the most civil words, a shadow and a survival.

  • If he would consent to call himself master of Castle Richmond, Clara's hand might still be his.

  • He had so completely abandoned all thought of being Sir Herbert Fitzgerald, that he had now almost felt ashamed of saying that he should so far presume as to call himself by that name.

  • And then from moment to moment he thought of the woman whom he had left in the cabin, and confessed that he did not dare to call himself unhappy.

  • If Macklin (as Charles M'Laughlin came to call himself) was born at the date above given, the incidents of his life connect him with very remote periods.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    call from; call her; call himself; call myself; call thee; call them; call themselves; call upon; called after; called forth; called good; called himself; called reformation; called their; caller herrin; calling them; calls attention; calls them; convex lens; detailed statement; greater than; heavy weight; human institutions; numerous train; spinal axis; spirited citizen