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Example sentences for "give herself"

  • She would have infinitely preferred to see Mary an old maid, than to hear that she was going to give herself to any suitor contaminated by trade.

  • The parson and his wife were altogether of one mind in this matter, and thought that Mary Lowther ought to be made to give herself to Harry Gilmore.

  • It might be that it would be a better world were such revenge practicable in it; but, as he well knew, it was not practicable now, and if Mary Lowther chose to give herself to this accursed Captain, he could not help it.

  • It was her pride to give herself to the man she loved after this fashion, pure and white as snow on which no foot has trodden.

  • If she might be allowed to be wooed by Sir Felix Carbury, and to give herself to him, she thought that she would be contented.

  • As regarded him, for the present she could only rely on the assurance, which she continued to give herself, that she would not believe a word of the story that had been told her.

  • She seemed to give herself up to it now as though the old days had come back to her.

  • She said she did not love me well enough to give herself to me unconditionally; to which I replied that I was not sufficiently taken with her charms to buy them at the price she fixed, and so I left her.

  • That the next day she would give herself to a man for whom she felt nothing, and who might have feelings of his own, she could not realize.

  • She wanted to give herself to him, as Kalus had to her rival.

  • He still, in part, represented to her the harsh world from which he came, a world she was not ready to fully accept, or give herself up to.

  • She was disgusted, and pushed past him to give herself room.

  • But she could not see that look warming his sharp-pointed features without feeling it again--that surge of desire that had driven her to give herself to him two months ago.

  • The sight thrilled her, but she still felt uneasy and not able to give herself wholeheartedly to him and to the act of love.

  • To give herself a husband was to give herself a master, yet she dallied with the offers made to her, surely not from political craft alone.

  • Flirt as she was, she knew her power, and refused to give herself to him except in marriage.

  • When the next spring should come round she would be her own mistress, free to take herself from her mother's hands, and free to give herself to whom she would.

  • When that young man had caught her from stone to stone as she passed over the ford at Bolton, she was almost ready to give herself to him.

  • But Ruth, in her way, was strong-minded and could control her thoughts when she chose; so she presently shook off the feeling of annoyance and decided to give herself up to the influences of the hour.

  • She learned not to dread and to hate him, but to fill herself with him, to give herself to his black, sensual power, that was hidden all the daytime.

  • That must have been clear to her from the beginning, else why was she going back there to give herself up?

  • I don't mean that his good lass shall give herself to you.

  • I didn't see how she could do better than to give herself to me.

  • When she was unseen she could give herself.

  • It was because she did not love him that it liberated her so completely to give herself to him.

  • She knew that she was about to give herself to him and resented his confidence.

  • He told her she should never want if she would follow his ways and give herself up to him: which Alice promised to do.

  • A portion of this letter ran as follows: Did Esther, think you, give herself to Ahasuerus out of the fulness of her love for him?

  • Here was the girl whom he loved, driven from her parents, putting aside all question of appearances, and clinging to him with a wild and glorious desire to give herself to him and to be all his own!

  • Mrs. Fitzherbert was not the sort of woman to give herself up readily to a morganatic connection.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give herself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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