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Example sentences for "himself had"

  • Hereward stood awhile staring at the beast like a man astonished at what he himself had done.

  • Hard it was to him to hear his elder brother called Baldwin of Mons, when he himself had not a foot of land of his own.

  • Perhaps the letter has been wrongly copied, or perhaps Johnson thought that, in writing to a man of title, he ought to assume such title as he himself had.

  • Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design to translate the Lusiad, of the merit of which he spoke highly, but had been prevented by a number of other engagements.

  • From what he himself had said, the theory of the foreman as to the motives of the attack might have been possible, and the assault itself committed while the colonel was unconscious.

  • Rage and disgust filled Brice at the man's utter selfishness and shameless desertion of his kindred, none the less powerfully that he remembered the part he himself had played in concocting the paragraph.

  • Excited as Bray was, he recognized with a hysterical sensation the track made by Eugenia in her fall, which he himself had noticed.

  • To his distracted cry asking for a new religion, Rome had been content to reply by condemning his book as a work tainted with heresy, and he himself had withdrawn it amidst the bitter grief of his disillusions.

  • At this Pierre gently interrupted him to tell him of the view which he himself had arrived at after his peregrinations and studies through Rome.

  • And he himself had ended by desiring the divorce, so unbearable had become the suffering caused by such a situation.

  • In his later reflections on himself and his youthful days, the very war he was waging against the false teachings of the Church, from which he himself had suffered, made him dwell, as was natural, on this side of his early life.

  • Such a one, he tells us, he himself had been.

  • By the Law says Luther, the sinner is judged, condemned, killed; he himself had to toil and disquiet himself under it, as though he were in the hands of a gaoler and executioner.

  • He evidently recognised the effects of one of those new explosives which he himself had studied, almost created.

  • He himself had begun to smile, somewhat ill at ease, however, as he thought of his nervous fidgeting.

  • Milo of Crotona, when he found his hands fast in the oak which he himself had cleft, was not more furious than Lucien.

  • He himself had tried to sell them a better class of almanac than the Double Liegeois on grocers' paper; and what came of it?

  • To Lousteau he had expressed the utmost disgust for this most hateful of all partitions, and now he himself had sunk to the same level, and, carried away by the casuistry of his vehement desire, had given the reins to his fancy.

  • In his astonishment at the crowds of strange faces, the man of imaginative temper felt as if he himself had shrunk, as it were, immensely.

  • The author is of opinion that he himself had at one time the honour to be counsel for Peter Peebles, whose voluminous course of litigation served as a sort of assay-pieces to most young men who were called to the bar.

  • She was still a little surprised to see him and wondered whether he himself had anything to say.

  • In his simplicity it did not strike him that he himself had grown to be an object of interest to her.

  • For he himself had experienced to the full the gnawing fear at the bottom of each woman's heart that she is a drag on the man she loves.

  • He himself had married a good deal of money, of which, it being then the golden age before the Married Women's Property Act, he had mercifully been enabled to make a successful use.

  • He--he himself had never--never been asked to.

  • As he himself had expressed it, he was no thief before God, however the money might have come into his possession.

  • His wife had congratulated herself on finding him able to set about his work like another man, and he himself had experienced a renewal, if not of hope, at any rate, of courage, which had given him a comfort which he had recognised.

  • It seemed to him that Wharton had altogether lost his senses;--the insult to himself had been so determined and so absolutely groundless!

  • People had said that not improbably he himself might be the man,--but he himself had indulged in no such dream.

  • He himself had supported Mr. Gresham's government, and did not belong to it because he could not at present reconcile himself to filling any office.

  • The President began to tell him that he must go to Captain Goodnow, the doorkeeper of the House, for he himself had nothing to do with such appointments.

  • Feeling acutely how much he himself had suffered, and how many years he had been put back, by his own want of a good sound rudimentary education, he determined that Robert should not suffer from a similar cause.

  • Before the baby was eighteen months old, the father died, and was buried alone, after the only possible fashion among such solitary settlers, in a corner of the wheat field which he himself had cleared of its stumps.

  • That brick-bat, which he himself had reared, became his own tombstone.

  • But which of these things was true Little Toonie himself had no idea.

  • He himself had to feed mainly on the breadcrumbs which the students screwed into pellets for their drawings and then threw about upon the floor.


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