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Example sentences for "had himself"

  • François Lambert, who is a good witness, as he had himself been an inmate of a monastery in that city.

  • The cardinal was now dead, having left to Guillaume, born previously to his father's entrance into orders, a good measure of the royal favor he had himself enjoyed.

  • He was accordingly acquitted of all charge of heresy, although condemned to pay the sum of two hundred livres as the expense of bringing to trial the "heretics" whom he had himself helped to make such.

  • He had himself taken to the servants of the Goddess; but he came down the hill sobbing, like one returning from a funeral.

  • He had himself taken to the vapour baths, and called for his cooks.

  • He had himself conveyed to the arsenal, the pharos, and the treasuries of the temples; his great litter was continually to be seen swinging from step to step as it ascended the staircases of the Acropolis.

  • The priest feigned that her desire harmonized with a resolution which he had himself formed.

  • He had cautioned his sister against the utterly unbridled youth whose father he had himself brought to her house.

  • He had himself succeeded, in gradual succession, to the dignities of his seniors; and he beheld, with great satisfaction, others rising up to succeed to his glory.

  • He turned to look at the way he had himself come: it was through a common press of painted deal, filling the end of the little room, there narrowed to about five feet.

  • Apparently he had concluded to let her pass the night without another visit: he had himself had a bad fright, and had probably not got over it.

  • For what he had himself to do in the matter, Donal was but waiting till he should be strong enough to be taken to task.

  • When they were at the place, he found with a gentle wonder that it was even the house where he had himself dwelt.

  • When Herbert had quite finished, the Bishop said courteously that he thought it was a case for a physician, and Herbert said that he had himself thought so, but that the doctors could do nothing, but had sent him back to the priests.

  • Here the young man walked sadly, considering the events of the day, and comparing what had dropped from the Abbot with what he had himself noticed of the demeanour of George Douglas.

  • He admitted that he had himself been a diligent labourer in the field, and had only come to this conclusion after mature consideration and repeated fruitless experiments.

  • He always attributed to his critics a more profound comprehension than he had himself, and always expected from them something he did not himself see in the picture.

  • Then he recalled the scandal with a sharper, to whom he had lost money, and given a promissory note, and against whom he had himself lodged a complaint, asserting that he had cheated him.

  • Vronsky was used to princes, but, either because he had himself changed of late, or that he was in too close proximity to the prince, that week seemed fearfully wearisome to him.

  • Cohorn was severely wounded while defending with desperate resolution a fort which he had himself constructed, and of which he was proud.

  • But, since he had been at the Board of Treasury, he had disgusted them by vehemently defending all that he had himself, when out of place, vehemently attacked.

  • In this paper he was made to complain of the unfairness of a trial which he had himself in public acknowledged to have been eminently fair.

  • The former could not pretend that he had not understood the meaning of the words which he had himself selected.

  • Maurice had recognised the manada, as the same from which he had himself captured it: and, no doubt, with the design of rejoining its old associates, it was running away with its rider!

  • Was it, that he feared humiliation by disclosing the part he had himself played?

  • The only service he performed for Caesar, was that of arranging the books which the Dictator had himself procured, or which had been acquired by those who preceded him in the management of public affairs(52).

  • Scrofa, too, had himself written on husbandry, as we learn from Columella; who says, that he had first rendered agriculture eloquent.

  • The boy's head had been filled with the idea of doing something remarkable, and he had himself gone to the priest.

  • When he had heard what had been done in reference to Mr. Jones's meadows, and had been told of the suspected conduct of Pat Carroll, he was as indignant as though he had himself been a landed proprietor, or even an Orangeman.

  • But he had himself seen to her education, almost as a child, and had been sure that sooner or later she would do great things in the musical world.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had all; had always; had anticipated; had brought; had ceased; had determined; had formed; had found; had little; had loved; had made; had married; had not been able; had once; had picked; had received; had resolved; had returned; had shown; had taken from the; had used; had with; had won; had yet; letter office; living thing