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Example sentences for "finding herself"

  • Her own feelings entirely engrossed her; her wretchedness was most acute on finding herself obliged to go directly home.

  • If he had not come between them, Alicia, on finding herself alone in misfortune, would have sought once more the support of the Prince.

  • On the way she looks back several times, with the hope of finding herself followed by the American soldier.

  • A lady who has gone through the hard drudgery of learning to sit well, will be repaid for her efforts on finding herself able to ride with ease over natural fences.

  • A young girl infatuated with a hopeless passion could not have been in more distress than this terrible old woman at finding herself unable to solve the mystery of the Quenus' cousin.

  • Thereupon La Normande threw herself upon a chair, and burst into a wild fit of hysterical sobbing at finding herself so powerless.

  • Lisa felt rather nervous at finding herself in the dark again with this big young fellow, and so she hastened on in front.

  • So great was the joy of the fervent novice at finding herself clad in the livery of her Divine Master, that she tells us she at first sometimes instinctively touched her veil to make sure that her happiness was no delusive dream.

  • Finding herself in the minority, she at once yielded the point without a remonstrance or even a remark.

  • But from such expostulation she was deterred, partly by pride, and partly by the dread of finding herself mistaken in such an interesting conjecture.

  • The poor child, who was only seven years old, nearly died of fear on finding herself in the power of this hideous creature.

  • The Princess, who expected to be quite alone, was pleased at finding herself surrounded by a number of pretty girls, all anxious to wait on her, whilst a brilliantly-coloured parrot said the most agreeable things in the world.

  • I arrived at the isle resolved to trouble myself about her no more; she might, I thought, be mad, or in despair at finding herself in the power of a man whom she could not possibly love.

  • Mrs. Rosscott had slipped through the blue velvet portières, expecting to see a friend, and had stopped short on the other side, amazed at finding herself face to face with an utter stranger.

  • She felt decidedly vexed at finding herself to be in the wrong, rubbed her nose impatiently, and waited in a temper to match the rubbing.

  • Mrs. Rosscott continued to dry the tears that continued to rise; she seemed terribly affected at finding herself to have been the cause (no matter how innocently) of this latest tale of wrack and ruin.

  • Maritornes was fretting and sweating at finding herself held so fast by Don Quixote, and not understanding or heeding the words he addressed to her, she strove without speaking to free herself.

  • Finding herself listened to with rapture, she soon began to listen to herself, enjoyed haranguing her audience, and at last regarded her friends as the chorus in a tragedy, there only to give her her cues.

  • Whence this weariness which, every day, increased her hope of finding herself a widow?

  • When the ambassador had gone, the Charpillon, finding herself at liberty once more, had Lord Baltimore, Lord Grosvenor, and M.

  • I naturally expressed my admiration for Madame d'Urfe's genius, and shared her joy in finding herself so well during her pregnancy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and came; bold relief; business basis; cannot leave; carry through; century ago; distant parts; even know; finding herself; finding himself; finding myself; finding nothing; finding them; finding themselves; for that; gave unto; legal tender; mind cure; narrow lane; public officials; question whether; religion and; shall notice; show herself; temperate climates; yellow precipitate