The mother of the family had herself been born in New York, of Irish parentage, but had learned from her own mother, and handed down to her children, such legends of the past as the ballad we cite.
The queen of May herself represents the mistress of Spring; she seems properly only to have overlooked the games in which she took no active part.
She sat herself on a golden chair, Him on another close by; And there's where she pulled out her little penknife That was both sharp and fine.
In that form only the verses were familiar to herself and her companions.
Two little girls clasp hands tightly, singing, Iron gates, Never break, While a third throws herself against them, and endeavors to break through.
We were having a little dispute as to who should sup off the other, and without going into details, the upshot of it all was that the eel managed to tie herself in a knot round my throat, and so, you see, was mistress of the situation.
She then passed through the little door at the left of the grand throne and found herself in the billiard-room.
For the same reason Mellinid, not knowing who she herself was, could not give her consent to our remaining at the Hall, and likewise Edil could not allow the magnificent house still to occupy its lovely situation in the Blowdripping Park.
She did, however, put herselfinto a monastery in a very different way.
One night he went to bed at his usual hour, under the impression that his wife was settling down nicely and resigning herself to the inevitable.
From this we learn that, on finding herself robbed of her daughter, Lady Elizabeth hastened to London to seek the assistance of her friend Bacon.
As might have been expected, she did not present herself, to the great disappointment of a large congregation, and she thereby exposed herself to arrest.
The "door-keeper fulfilled her desire and in the meantime gave her a chair to restherself in.
As we have seen, she went to Guernsey and placed herself under the protection of her old cousin, Lord Danby.
That old cousin must have wished devoutly that she had placed herself anywhere else.
It may be a question whether Lady Purbeck ever intended "to put herself into some monastery," in the sense of becoming a nun.
Vassalage implies protection;--It was therefore presumption in England to pretend to defend Scotland against those enemies before whom she herself had been obliged to truckle.
Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke was soon reconciled to the thought of being the wife of a prince by the left hand, particularly as she found herself assiduously courted by persons of the highest rank, and more especially by military men.
Finding that she could go again to the theatre when she pleased, and occupy the same box, she availed herself of this opportunity with a female friend, and was not a little astonished at being addressed as Her Royal Highness.
She then discovered that the individual into whose affections she had insinuated herself was the son of the King, the Duke of York, who had not long before united himself to a lady, for whom she had been mistaken.
She declared to me that Captain Cranstoun put some powder into tea one morning for Mr. Blandy, and she turned herself about he was stirring it in the cup.
Thinking she had now cleared herself from the suspicious appearances of poison, her spirits mend, "she thanked God that she was much better, and said her mind was more at ease than it had been.
He then was asked his sentiments of that matter; to which he replied, "She seemed to me more concerned for the consequences to herself than to her father.
That she herself fabricated it in order to inculpate her accomplice is highly improbable; had she done so, as Mr. Bleackley has pointed out, its contents would have been more consistent with her defence.
The witness then told her that she believed she had herself taken, about six weeks before, a dose in tea that was prepared for her master.
The counsel for the prisoner waived the objection to this as hearsay evidence, because the counsel for the Crown assured them they would call Betty Binfield herself next.
Probably prepared for her beforehand, it merely enumerates the various injustices and misrepresentations of which she considered herself the victim.
Louis had seen his darkest times when Normandy shook herself free from French rule, and from that hour his fortunes bettered.
It is most interesting to see how the church availed herself of the feudal bonds and sympathies of men, and their warlike sentiment and organization, to develop a better and more peaceful service of God.
His [Pg109] descendants gave France a vast amount of trouble in later years, and so Burgundy revenged herself and Otho William's lost cause.
In the early morning, the Mora being lighter-laden than the rest, found herself alone on the sea, out of sight of either land or ships, but presently the loitering forest of masts rose into view.
She was not the only one, either, who gave herself up to such an exaggerated idea of the duties of a housekeeper.
This also was seizin of all that England herself embraced.
Again she gave herself up as lost, when she felt herself knocked against an obstruction, and instinctively threw out her hand and clutched it.
She screamed to the operator to save her and one big, brave fellow walked as far into the river as he could and shouted to her to try to guide herself into the shore with a bit of plank.
The mother, whose husband was lost in the flood, was herself rescued by being drawn up on the roof of the Union Schoolhouse.
In a moment or so she had calmed herself sufficiently to take one more look at the features of her dead.
It is a ceremony still performed by the Pope at Passion-tide; and Queen Elizabeth herself used to do so on Maundy Thursday.
She hated and despised the Saxon churl given her for a lord, kind, generous, and pious though he was; and having set her affections on a young Norman, herself became the accuser of her husband.
In the end of September he besieged her at Oxford, where at first she thought herself safe; but he crossed the river, set fire to the city in several places, and blockaded her in the castle.
Queen Isabel herself was wont to wear such a tower on her head, that doorways had to be altered to enable her to pass under them; and her expenses were so great, that no revenue was left to maintain her young daughter-in-law Philippa.
The old Queen, whose disposition had softened with her years, charged John, on pain of her curses, not to hurt his nephew, and exerted herself to save the victims from barbarity.
The town was soon taken: but Eleanor's high spirit had not deserted her; she shut herself up in the castle, and contrived to send intelligence to her son.
Margaret and her husband convened a synod, when Margaret herself explained her views, and Malcolm interpreted.
Again Queen Isabel was obliged to trust her son out of the hands of herself and her minions.
There was a poor girl in Hamburg who was a seamstress, and who not only supported herself but her mother by her needle.
One settled down on the dust, and gave a few vigorous strokes with her legs to make herself more comfortable.
For ten minutes she flung herself into the details of the maps, jotting down a time, a distance, here and there a detail of the road.
She seated herself at a table, dipped her pen into the ink, and looked up without a word.
The child had already heard the step and sought to efface herself in the darkest corner.
For a minute she had stood transfixed at the horror of the position she realised; then, half-frenzied, she flung herself against Salt's arm and tried to beat her way past to face the mob.
The hand of despair lay heavy across the scene; it seemed as though Nature had wept herself out, but was uncomforted.
The old woman cast frequent glances at her master through her large tortoiseshell spectacles, and seemed several times about to address him, but as often checked herself in respect to his holy employment.
In either of these cases, it was more than probable that Salome was herself a convert.
Why, then, should she bury herself for life in an old chateau?
The Countess re-entered her boudoir, closed the windows hastily, and was glad once more to find herself in the noisy salon.
That the beautiful Salome was herself not only unconscious of his passion and indifferent to his person, but ignorant of his very name and station, were facts not even to be admitted on the list of difficulties.
There she wrapped herself in a great cloak lined with sables, opened the window, and stepped out on the terrace.
But for these vague sounds and the low humming of insects in the grass, all was so profoundly still that it seemed as if Nature herself were holding her breath, and as if the very perfumes were asleep in the hearts of the wild flowers.
Did she herself reject him, or did he lay his suit before her father?
She was now left with barely his pension for herself and the two children to live on.
A girl, so like herself that they might almost have been sisters, passed in a high C-springed carriage.
Meanwhile some of the females sat down, and one of them put herself in an attitude so absurd that I introduced her into the drawing.
She is herself an orphan, one of the best girls in our school," said Miss Arthur, referring to her.
She sat herself down close beside me and went to sleep at the beginning of the sermon--not out of irreverence, I am persuaded, but from heat.
I sat down beside a very stout Hottentot girl, whose dress of showy chintz was as much a subject of interest to herself as of indifference to the congregation.
The grey and cruel nurse, custom or religion, crucifies and torments the child, feeding herself upon his agony to false fresh youth; an allegory not even literally inapt.
For so long nature has sat silent, her harps out of tune; the goddess herself has slept out all those years, a dream among dreams, the ghostly regent of a ghostly generation.
Permit me to answer that question with another," she retorted, drawing herself up haughtily, "what right have you to call me to an account for so doing?
Elsie, seating herselfat her writing desk and taking out pen, ink and paper, looked smilingly into the eager faces of her two little girls.
Mrs. Faude exclaimed, in the tone of one who considers herself grossly insulted.
They were not many, and with some parting injunctions to this little daughter and the servants, she announced herself ready to go.
One look into his grief-stricken face, and Violet threw herself into his arms, and wept upon his breast.
Mrs. Conly, drawing herself up, and speaking in a tone of mingled hauteur, pique and annoyance.
Isadore with the zeal of a young convert, had set herself the task of bringing Vi over to her new faith.
The words were spoken as if to herself and she finished with a deep drawn sigh.
She set herself to considering how she might be the same to her father and brothers and sister; what she could do now.
Rosie volunteered to see that Molly was not neglected, and to exert herself for the poor girl's entertainment, and Bob and Betty were sent to the Oaks to be looked after by Mrs. Murray and their cousin Horace.
It would be the gay life of dressing, dancing and flirting at great hotels, for which Virginia hungered, and was snatched at with great avidity by herself and her mother.
Then arose the question "what should the end bring to them--herself and her beloved children?
It’s all a mistake, Mrs. Haddon,” began Polly once more as she found herself alone with the other.
As for the Widow Dunham, she herself did smile, as he went out the gate.
Pears to me like Meliss’ Joslin got entirely too much attention paid to herself along of that divorce.
She finished her number, and when the roar of applause had ceased turned to her associate, who seated herself at the piano.
She held her own life in review now, day after day, feeling herself unworthy and forsaken, herself too merciless a critic of herself.
They both sang—one of their duets; and as part of this Polly Pendleton herself danced—whirling about in pirouettes where her toes seemed scarce to find a footing, her round, strong limbs insouciantly exposed.
Humoring the sick woman, she contented herself with showing the many articles about the house which she herself had made with her own hands—counterpanes and quilts, cloth woven on her own hand-loom.
A moment later Polly Pendleton herself appeared at the door, looking across the hall to the open door of the café upon the other side.
By this time she was busyingherself caring for his wound.
She herself tried to tell me, and I wouldn’t believe her.
It’s only what the girl herself was trying to tell me—but I couldn’t believe it.
She flung herself into a chair, her face distorted with her jealous anger.
He stood before her, motionless, she herself slightly swaying.
She agreed not to pass herself off as the princess.
When we speak of her, the manager smiles and says nothing; and as none of us has seen the backer, Mr. Worth thinks that she herself is the prima donna and backer in one.
But it seemed to me that, while she sang in Italian, she herself was not wholly of that race.
I deplore the misfortune which crossed your path and mine again," she went on relentlessly, as much to herself as to him.
She had two battles where he had only one; for she had herself to war against.
She desired to meet no strangers; to be left to herself was all she wished.
They both shed a few tears, but he told her with more sincerity than he usually put into his husky voice that he exonerated her from all blame in the catastrophe which had overtaken his son (Lucy herself was not so sure).
That is Cecilia Bosworth, the Marchioness of Bosworth, quite the proudest woman in the Three kingdoms--enough in herself to provoke a middle-class revolution.
That had been given him by the white woman herself for running to summon the Masai.
After all their adventures this seemed rather a prosaic phase in the journey, and Lucy found herself actually depressed at being once more with fellow-countrymen.
Probably had John remained to keep her company she would have made no attempt to entertain him; but she would have applied herself with real interest to Scriptural exegesis.
As soon as the ship started she putherself under the wing of our Acting Consul-General who was not slow to reciprocate.
Sibyl disposed herself gracefully on a mound which covered the site of a Roman dwelling, arranged the long skirt of her riding habit so that the riding trousers and other suggestions of her limbs might not be too obvious to the male eye.
She consoled herself by the assurance she would be at the Naval Review and the Garden Party and probably most of her fellow-guests would not.
When she is constrained to choose between Thamos and Pheron she declares herself bound by her oath, and announces Thamos as the possessor of the throne.
Sais, who believesherself not loved by Thamos, and will not therefore choose him as consort, but will not deprive him of the throne, takes the solemn and irrevocable oath as Virgin of the Sun.
In the second act Ahura recites the long history of herself and family, to deter Setna from his purpose.
And she was glad herself to come to earth again, and not to be left there.
And when she felt me coming she gathered herself up, and was gone, as if the earth had swallowed her up.
The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie.
By conquest she made for herself an empire, and this empire made her rich.
Gold mines even of average fertility could have availed no more; and if Italy had remained agriculturally productive she could have sustained herself without any mines.
They were immediately led to execution; herself was reserved to grace the conqueror's triumph.
She applied herself to the study of the Arabic language, and strove to obtain a thorough acquaintance with the character and manners of the Syrian people.
At length, Rome herself fell in her turn, a prey to conquest, and barbarians divided her ample spoils.
She would not take any sustenance, and starvedherself to death, to avoid surviving this last calamity.
The subject world first took from her their fate; And when she only stood unconquer'd yet, Herself she last subdued, to make the work complete.
Before long, all four men were busily engaged on a comparison of America and England and in a discussion on contemporary politics, and Cynthia was able to devote herself to household duties and the entertainment of her guests.
Cynthia resolutely banished the thought of her own affairs, and set herself to consider possibilities.
Sabina Meldreth had presented herself at three o'clock, and had inquired for Mrs. Vane.
One balmy September afternoon she had established herself rather earlier than usual in the drawing-room.
Florence has always been kind, and dear mamma herself could not have done more for me.
She leaned against the wall until the feeling had gone off, and then dragged herself slowly up the stairs.
She sat erect for a minute or two, then gradually sank back amongst her cushions, as if not equal to the task of maintaining herself upright.
For herself she felt at that moment equal to any struggle involving either cunning or courage.
The good Sister smiled, and thought toherself that the very reservation told its own story.
With a sort of mental clutch at the strength residing in those words, she maintained herself in a sitting posture and looked the white woman full in the face.
She went down-stairs, let herself out of the house, and met Cynthia on the steps.
Do not speak of it to the girl herself or to any one in the village.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ego; her; him; itself; oneself; self; she; them; themselves; they; you; yourself
