So unarmed and almost naked as they were, they turned back to give themselves up.
Those of the French who had refused to give themselvesup to Menendez now wandered back to the shore where their ship had been wrecked.
And seeing that they could make no terms with him many of the Frenchmen refused to give themselves up, and they marched away.
The apostles withdrawing themselves from other work to give themselves continually to prayer was followed by the number of the disciples multiplying exceedingly.
And yet, even such duties might interfere with the special calling to give themselves to prayer and the ministry of the word.
They want to give themselves up, but on such and such conditions.
The first class of souls are those who, after their conversion, give themselvesup to meditation, or even to works of charity.
They immediately began openly to give themselves up to idolatry, which, during their father's lifetime, they had seemed somewhat to abandon, and they granted free licence to their subjects to serve idols.
After this ceremony, says the chronicler we have quoted, the ladies began to dance like mummers, and to give themselves up to gaiety, in order to carry on the festival more joyously.
It is well known that quite a number of women are altogether unable to give themselves up to the sexual act in such a way as to derive from it real enjoyment and satisfaction.
Such persons commonly become criminals in later life, or at least indulge in the most shameless masturbation or give themselves up to prostitution.
Herodotus relates that in Babylon the virgins had, for a money payment, and in honour of the Goddess of Love, to give themselves to a strange man; and similar customs are reported of other peoples of antiquity.
Certainly there is in every people a tendency to give themselves a circle of divinities and heroes who are, so to say, the incarnation of its instincts; but generally that requires the long labor of centuries.
Who will take their place if, instead of fulfilling their mission and being shining examples for all, they are seen to give themselves up to works of darkness?
He thought it foolish in Francis when, instead of leaving the friars to give themselves unceasingly to prayer, he sent them out in all directions to wait upon lepers.
There is no doubt that in religious matters men have a strong tendency to give themselves to a dominant idea, which they desire to communicate to all around them, and propagate everywhere.
They lose the remission of sentence they would obtain by good behaviour, that is all, even when they are recognized, but as a rule they take care not togive themselves up at the prison they left, but at one many hundred miles from it.
The authorities trouble themselves little about them, for they know that they must give themselves up in a few months.
During my stay at Basle I attended one day a meeting at which a venerable pious clergyman expounded the Greek New Testament to several brethren, who purposed to give themselves to missionary service.
This morning I conversed also with three brethren, journeymen, who have a desire to give themselves to missionary work; but nothing could be decided now.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
