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Example sentences for "flung myself"

  • As I went down I flung myself forward at him wildly.

  • I legged it through the empty road, flung myself round a corner, and came plump upon the combatants.

  • At the courtyard of the inn I flung myself from my horse and strode to the taproom where my companions awaited me.

  • I flung myself on the ground, gnawed the earth, and swallowed it; and then I looked round; it was almost total darkness in the dingle, and the darkness added to my horror.

  • I flung myself down by him and put my arms round his neck, the creature whinnied, and appeared to sympathise with me; what a comfort to have any one, even a dumb brute, to sympathise with me at such a moment!

  • Wearied and panting, I flung myself on its bank, and gazed upon it.

  • I flung myself, I remember, with clasped hands, on the sofa and fixed my eyes on the floor.

  • With what a bitter emotion in my soul I flung myself down in the bottom of the boat and, like Repetilov, asked to be taken anywhere, anywhere away!

  • Knowing that sleep was out of the question in my then frame of mind, I merely substituted the clothes I intended to wear in the morning for those I had on, and, wrapping my dressing-gown round me, flung myself on the bed.

  • I flung myself down on the floor, crushing my hands against my ears.

  • Then suddenly I flung myself on my knees, and prayed--though what about and to whom I cannot say.

  • I waited on until sick at heart I flung myself on my knees beside my bed and prayed that God would comfort her.

  • About this time I again began to feel drowsy; I therefore arose, and having prepared for myself a kind of couch in the tent, I flung myself upon it and went to sleep.

  • As for me, I flung myself into an arm chair, and gave way to an excess of merriment, which only enraged the spectators more: many were the glances of anger, many the murmurs of reproach directed against me.

  • After this splendid repast, I flung myself back on my chair with the complacency of a man who has dined well, and dozed away the time till the hour of dressing.

  • I rose,--I flung myself on my bed, and slept.

  • I opened the case and pressed the miniature to my heart, flung myself on the bed face downwards, and sobbed and sobbed.

  • I flung myself back in the cab and cried as though my heart would break.

  • I rushed up to my own room, and there I flung myself on my bed and cried as though my very heart would break.

  • When the Regent admitted me, I flung myself on my knee, and told him, verbatim, all that had happened.

  • I tarried no more: I flung myself on my horse, and rode on as if I were speeding to, and not from, my bride.

  • I flung myself on my horse, and cast not a look behind as I rode from the towers and domains of which I had been despoiled.

  • She looked so kind, so energetic, and so happy that I flung myself at once into her arms.

  • I jumped about in delight, and gave free vent to my joy, but on seeing tears in my mother's eyes I flung myself in her arms.

  • I clapped my hands, laughed aloud, flung myself on mamma and nearly stifled her with kisses.

  • Here I flung myself on the turf and waited impatiently for daylight.

  • I know that when it was over, and we parted sulky and bruised each his own way, I flung myself on my face at the edge of the cliff and wished I had never been born.

  • I flung myself at the man on the step just as he raised his club, and sending him sprawling on to the road, levelled my weapon at his head.

  • Enraptured with my paradisaical carpet, I flung myself upon it, and my recumbent form, as it pressed the perfumes, was indeed that of Mahomet's Houri.

  • At ten, I flung myself on my bed, in hopes to have dreams portentous of my future fate; for heroines are remarkably subject to a certain prophetic sort of night-mare.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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