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Example sentences for "calls himself"

  • Pusillanimous' he calls himself in writing to Colet.

  • Putidulus, he calls himself, meaning the quality of never being content with himself.

  • The most miserable of all men, the thrice-wretched Erasmus,' he calls himself in fine Greek terms.

  • Azru, though this last is doubtful, as in one of the letters he calls himself a governor installed by the king of Egypt.

  • A bronze sword, on which he calls himself king of Kishshati; an inscription, the oldest yet found with an eponym date.

  • He calls himself “lord of Kengi,” the southern part of Babylonia.

  • He calls himself a Platonist; he is proud of the great literature of Greece; but nearly all that we associate in religious thought with such names as Xenophanes, Euripides and Plato, he gently waves aside on the authority of Apollo.

  • Lugal-zaggi-si calls himself "the priest of Anu," the god of the city which he had made the seat of his power.

  • What if we should look in, some day, on the Scarabeeist, as he calls himself?

  • He calls himself "teacher of the unquenchable creed, namely, egotism.

  • The humble Christian, who has been a model to others, calls himself a worm of the dust on one page of his diary, and arraigns himself on the next for coming short of the perfection of an archangel.

  • Member of the Haouse," as he calls himself.

  • Mr. Vincent Cawdor he calls himself, I believe," he remarked.

  • He calls himself a commission agent, I believe.

  • He calls himself "gradue de Paris" in 1530, and no doubt also, his work on the French language was making headway.

  • In any case he was a member of the French Church, and in the returns of aliens he calls himself a "schoolmaster" and a "teacher of children.

  • It strikes me we’ve a deal to learn from this manager, or what he calls himself,” said Mr. Harker dryly.

  • John Clegg isn’t a banker, though he calls himself one—he’s a moneylender.

  • He calls himself a banker, and he pays five per cent.

  • This man--this Lieutenant Dudleigh, as he calls himself--is an enemy to both of us.

  • He calls himself Mowbray, and she is Mrs. Mowbray.

  • Rash girl, you have already suffered from this Mowbray, as he calls himself.

  • He calls Himself "I AM," and faith has but to write over against that ineffably precious name whatever we want.

  • When speaking to him, He calls Himself by that commanding and majestic title, "The Lord God of the Hebrews;" i.

  • Boccaccio conceived this Eclogue in a wood, and therefore he calls himself Silvio.

  • Those six irrecoverable years had indeed almost passed away before even in Naples he was able to find, unlearned as he was, "rozza mente" as he calls himself, any opportunity of culture.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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