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Example sentences for "drew myself"

  • When he was gone I drew myself up to the ledge, and with my knife made a hole in the shutter that fitted my ear well enough.

  • With an effort I drew myself erect, and standing so told my tidings, quietly and with circumstance, so as to leave no room for doubt as to their verity, or as to the sanity of him who brought them.

  • I that know"-- I drew myself up to meet the blow, whatever it might be.

  • I do,' was my brief reply, as, with a look of consummate effrontery, I drew myself up and stared him insolently in the face.

  • And as I spoke I drew myself up unto the greatest height possible to me.

  • I answered him as I drew myself to my greatest height and gave the salute which his old soldiers give to him at that raising of the banner of the Cause that he had lost in his youth.

  • I drew myself up on to the bulwark, and looked round.

  • I remember feeling a kind of angry contempt for the magnificently dressed men who bowed down before this eastern potentate, and I believe I drew myself up stiffly in face of all this abject humility.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    against her; been able; drew forth; drew from; drew from his pocket; drew himself; drew his; drew near; drew nearer; drew nigh; drew rein; four more; free states; great straits; green tint; her friends; light grey; little grim; marine shells; public instruction; quite know; sometimes seen; the word; this statement; thousand diners; will bring