If Waring meant to give himself up and stand his trial like a man, why the dickens didn't he do it immediately after the--well, the accident?
The man's conduct didn't in the least resemble that of a person who is returning to give himself up on a charge of wilful murder.
And it's this, the purely personal and unimportant charge, he's coming home to give himself up upon.
He was nervous and, to give himself countenance, offered her a cigarette and lit one for himself.
He kissed her, and then, togive himself countenance, said he was dying for tea.
He watched the play with an abstracted mind, trying togive himself gaiety by drinking whiskey in each interval; he was unused to alcohol, and it affected him quickly, but his drunkenness was savage and morose.
And with this consoling thought he went away to give himselfup at the prison, after kissing the cold lips of his benefactor.
His letter to Mr. Lyddon had been written; in the morning the miller must read it before breakfast, and learn that his son-in-law had started for Plymouth to give himself up for the crime of the past.
That's coorious then, for he 's hungry to give himself up, so soon as the auld woman 's well again.
Whatever might happen, he was determined to give himself up on the following day.
And let him who has not the means of paying the church, give himself in servitude to that same church until he pays the whole debt.
But if he has never come to the eucharist, let him in his oath have a good surety to answer, or let him pay or give himself up to be whipped.
The sixth argument is, that a human being cannot be held as property, because, if so held, “the latter is under obligation to give himself up as a chattel to the former.
Besides, he was not merely not in humor for self-justification, but wished rather to give himself a slap on the face.
Pan Stanislav felt this as vividly as she; and since he was accustomed to give himself a clear account of every position, he understood also that Marynia was the same as lost to him.
It was so funny that Geoff should have to give himself away; she could not for the life of her help fixing him with her eyes.
He had been fourteen years struggling up from all this; and now just as he had breathing space, and the time to give himself wholly to his work--this weakness was upon him!
He was like a man who rushes his horse at some hopeless fence, unwilling to give himself time, for fear of craning at the last moment.
He is making claim that he is Peter Junior, and that he has come back to Leauvite to give himself up for the murder of his cousin, Richard Kildene.
I repeat it, let no one who has begun to give himself to prayer be discouraged, and say: If I fall into sin, it will be worse for me if I go on now with the practice of prayer.
The result showed clearly enough that it was a message from God, for that religious resolved with great earnestness to give himself to prayer, though he did not do so at once.
But she had to forsake her father, and so she left her father's house by stealth, taking with her one of her brothers, whom she had persuaded to give himself to God in religion.
It was good advice when you told him togive himself up and confess.
Would he have to give himself up perhaps to prevent Dounia from taking some rash step?
But he is not ready to give himself, and, like some of the rest of us, thinks to compound by giving money.
Both of these figures point to the thought that in order to get man for His own He has to give Himself to man.
Just as Maxwell set himself to the solution of the most difficult problems in physics, so he did not hesitate to give himself also to the discussion of problems in ethics.
It seemed to him a waste of time, or worse, for a man to give himself up to the making of money.
It used to be said that Galvani's discovery of the twitchings of the frog's legs, which led him to give himself to serious investigations into animal electricity, was made more or less by accident in 1786.
Then he got homesick, like I told you, and showed up here at the door; and I saw it was better for him to give himself up and get out of it by fair and legal means.
He tells Myron he's give himself up to be tried, and he wants that trial and won't budge till he gets it.
He was wrestling with it at once, to give himself no time to argue over the point of its being no ordinary letter such as he had been accustomed to write to Dick.
He insisted on sitting down to breakfast with them and, after Jerry had gone out, went over the house in a mindless way, into all the rooms, to give himself something to do.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give himself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.