Also we have in this castle the fairest knight and the mightiest man that is I dare say living, and he called himself Le Chevaler Mal Fet.
And then he called himself a very wretch, and most unhappy of all knights; and there he said: My sin and my wickedness have brought me unto great dishonour.
He called himself "the first official servant of the State," and no civil officer under him labored half so earnestly and zealously.
He called himself Markgraf (Border Count) of Brandenburg, and thus laid the basis of a new State, which, in the course of centuries developed into Prussia.
Berengar of Friuli, a rough, brutal prince, called himself king of Italy, and demanded for his son the hand of Adelheid, the widow of his predecessor.
William Shakspere, I doubt not, called himself Shaxspere, and we decline to imitate him, and so probably many of us will with a light heart go on speaking of William Cowper to the end of the chapter.
He called himself Thomas, and entered the service of Justice Woodcock as gardener.
But though he was a good draughtsman, and had made some reliefs and modelled some figures, he called himself only an architect.
When the charge galvanic tingled through the cable, At the polar focus of the wire electric Suddenly appeared a white-faced man among us Called himself "DE SAUTY.
I have a note of introduction here from one of your authors, as I think he called himself, a very popular writer for whom you publish.
He called himself a "Moravian of the higher order"; and by that phrase he probably meant that he had the Brethren's faith in Christ, but rejected their orthodox theology.
But he could not do that, and he called himself a sneak for considering the matter an instant.
He called himself Mr. Grooten, and I judged him to be a foreigner, though he spoke perfect English.
Sir Granville Temple," as he called himself, when he had committed bigamy several times, was eventually uncloaked and shown up as an army deserter whose father was master of a workhouse.
He called himself a coward, selfish and lazy, because he had remained inactive for such a long time without daring the worst.
It seemed to him he was in honor bound to undertake this journey, because he was "big" now, and when his fears arose anew he called himself a coward.
Vespasian was quite in earnest when, on the day of his great Judæan triumph, he found the procession so tardy and tedious that he called himself ‘an old fool who had been deservedly punished for his silly vanity.
We can say that he called himself free-born, and told us that he ran away from the cruelties of a step-mother--or anything else we choose to invent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "called himself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
