As Mavis looked, another quality, which had previously eluded her, seemed to attach itself to each and all of the flowers, a quality that their calculated shyness now made only the more apparent.
Serve you right for wishing to be without me," he laughed, when she told him how the place had presented itself to her.
She wondered what had become of them; if she should see them again: a thousand things in which she allowed her imagination to wing itself in sentimental flight.
It appeared to hugitself for its complete detachment from human interests.
Being a serviceable defensive port, it rehabilitated itself as a rendezvous for the navy, and combined with that importance the added attraction of being the best base on the coast for pirates.
The great church itself has long since disappeared, for Sir Anthony Browne, to whom the place was given after the visit of the vandal commissioners, saw nothing of worth in it.
Despite its wilderness of bricks and mortar, Hastings itself is, under certain conditions, a place by no means unbeautiful.
Beneath him and half a mile or so up the river valley, the mellow green of Peaceful's orchard was already taking to itself the vagueness of evening shadows.
A figure detached itself without sound from the blot of darkness there, and stood almost at his stirrup.
Good Indian turned upon him, stopped as quickly, and let his anger vent itself in a sneer.
For the trail wound in and out, looping back upon itself where the hill was oversleep, hidden part of the time from the receding wall of rock by huge bowlders and giant sage.
Nevertheless a general tension manifested itself when the jury, after solemnly listening, in their official capacity, to the evidence they had heard and discussed freely hours before, bent heads and whispered briefly together.
Somewhere up the bluff a bobcat squalled among the rocks, and the moon, in its dissipated season of late rising, lifted itself indolently up to where it could peer down upon the silent ranch.
Briefly, Grant had inadvertently stepped on a sleeping dog's paw--a dog of the mongrel breed which infests Indian camps, and which had attached itself to the blanketed buck inside.
He stood for a minute, and watched Baumberger make a dexterous cast, which proved fruitless, before he began climbing up the steep slope of jumbled bowlders upon which the bluff itself seemed to rest.
But there was nothing alive that he could discover, except a hawk which lifted itself languorously off a high, sharp rock, and flapped lazily out across the valley when he drew near.
Then another shadow detached itself slowly from the shade of the stable, hesitated, walked out boldly, and crossed the white sand on the path to the house.
When the opening is large enough, it breaks out through it, head foremost, and immediately fixes a thread of silk to any object it can reach, no doubt in order to prevent itself from falling.
The head is the first out of the old skin, and the insect sets itself entirely free.
The middle one had been pierced through, and the two insects were found together, the one which was below having made a hole through which it might introduce itself into the middle box.
It is no sooner born than it thinks of feeding, and buries itself in the meat with the aid of the hooks and lancets with which it is provided.
Let us cause the trunk to extenditself a second time, in order to observe its tip minutely.
In order to hang itself in this way, the caterpillar begins by covering, with threads drawn in different directions, a pretty large extent of the surface of the body against which it wishes to fix itself.
If it even distends itself or moves, a small opening will be made in the dried skin.
Twenty four hours afterwards a white efflorescence shows itself round the head and rings, and soon after the whole body becomes floury.
It is with this pincer that the louse fastens itself to the hair.
The larva of the Drilus flavescens fixes itselfupon the shell of the snail by a sort of sucker, like a leech.
The bottom of the first is very near the surface of the wood, so that the insect it encloses has only a thin layer of wood to pierce through in order to set itself free.
Three or four days before it buries itself in the earth to change itself into a chrysalis, its beautiful colours grow dim.
This is the case when the animal is in repose; but it is able to move and swim, and then, by bending its body and straightening it again, propels itself through the water.
At last the caterpillar finds itself bound on the second side; the head rests on the thread-covered plane, and the insect fixes the second end of the thread.
Indeed the way in which all external expression is regarded by the Italian differs radically from the way in which it presents itself to the Anglo-Saxon and the Teuton.
There is nothing which deserves in itself and always reverence--for him a spade is a spade, a fiasco a fiasco, a corpse a corpse.
There is only one confraternity in the city which imposes on itself the duty of seeking and burying the bodies of those who die from sudden illness or from violence in the campagna.
The question of racial religious characteristics apparently resolvesitself into one of compensations.
All through it was the public act itself which justified and consecrated, which was the sanction of the reality the criterion of the fitness of worship.
Pudens, and here, when Justin was describing the riteitself in his Apology to the emperors, was frescoed the earliest representation of the solemn moment of the breaking of bread at the Eucharist.
The initial necessity, the drainage of the campagna, seems in itself to be a task too great for Hercules.
This rudeness of mind, of sentiment, of taste showed itself in every part of the Roman life.
There is a covered way from the Vatican to Castel Sant' Angelo which is itself a parable of the history of the Roman popes.
But this is precisely where Italian Catholicism has itself never failed, and the Catholic in Italy is already accustomed to familiar and simple relations with priest monk and friar--to a complete democracy of sentiment.
I afterwards filed off the gold from one side of a cube crystal to show the pyrites itself and the thickness of the surrounding coating, which is thicker than ordinary notepaper.
No solution leached from the pulp, containing cyanide of potassium, gold and silver, need be run to waste, which is in itself an enormous saving over the use of zinc shavings when handling large quantities of pulp and solution.
By the time the fish had been reached conversation at the table had fixed itself definitely on the one topic.
Almost a shocked look spread itself over the pugilist's face.
A warm and prickly sensation began to manifest itself in the region of George's forehead.
A man who has been shut up for two days in a small room is seldom slow off the mark when a chance presents itself of taking exercise.
The little imps danced and leaped; and then one separated itself from the crowd, to grow bigger than, the rest, to pirouette more energetically.
But it was a sharp, insistent knocking, and forced itselfupon his attention.
That in itself points strongly to the fact that you were its author.
There are some speeches that are such conversational knockout blows that one can hardly believe that life will ever pick itself up and go on again after them.
Than George normal, no violet that ever hid itself in a mossy bank could have had a greater distaste for scenes.
It was a half-grown puppy with long legs and a long tail, belonging to no one species, but generously distributing itself among about six.
One by one the electric signs blazed out along Broadway, spreading the message that the dull days were over, and New York was itself again.
Didn't the thought present itself to you in a shadowy way that it was rather rough on the bird?
It's a stupid-enough-looking word when it gets itself written, but it can mean a lot when for nearly three weeks you have not seen anything of it worth talking about.
Every occasion is seized on for an indulgence in the habanero they so much love; and death itself cannot rob the liquid refreshment of its charm.
On the site of the ancient Indian village of Labcah La Compañía Agricola has built itself a settlement which it has rechristened Solferino.
None but a carriage which has lost all respect for itselfand its passengers could survive an hour on a Yucatecan road.
Its products belonged in each case to the first occupier; but occupation itself gave but a precarious right which lasted only for the full term of one agricultural season.
And then it has twisted itself out of our sight, only to reappear a moving gleam of light in the black woodlands overhead.
It hurls itself at you with the rage and energy of a fanatic.
Apparently at first it stood on a solid foundation of masonry 30 feet high and of the same size as the building itself except to the north, where there was a platform 30 feet wide.
But in the obligation itself did you become bound that your sons as well as yourself should fish for Messrs.
The written obligation itself has not been recovered, and neither Mr. Irvine, of Hay & Co.
This custom, which was or is not uncommon in other remote rural districts, will probably disappear of itself as the islands are brought into more frequent and intimate relations with the rest of the world.
If he wants to leave it in Mr. Adie's hands he will get interest for his money, but if he wants the money itself it will be paid down to him.
Because the small earnings from the fishing could not support him, neither could the land itself support him in the way it is laid down present.
Henceforth, I will never avoid any opportunity that presents itself of dying for You, but will accept martyrdom with delight, provided that, by so doing, I can add to Your glory.
If the girl were only able to help Natalie, his hate of her could very well content itself a while.
The journey with her stretched itself rosily before Garth's mind's eye; but his instinct to take care of her made him oppose it.
There was a shot from below, and the bullet spattered itself on the heavy base of rock.
A goodly warmth diffuseditself throughout his veins; and he felt strong again.
This time he had reason on his side; for angry clouds were heaped about the setting sun; and the orb itself was peering luridly between parted curtains of crimson rain.
The discomforting thought did not fail to suggest itself that they might be hatching a plot in the very presence of their intended victims.
He tried crawling underneath with his tow-line, whereupon the earth gave way, precipitating him in water up to his middle; he tried crashing bodily through, and the line would invariably knotitself around the most inaccessible twig.
A fire was built on the ground in the centre of the tepee; and the smoke, filling the apex, finally found itself out at the top.
The night itself seemed to speak for the deed; it was as dark as Erebus; and there was a blustering, raw wind from the north, presaging snow.
Try as he would to banish it, the sense of nine miles' distance would rollitself interminably out before Garth's mind's eye.
As he slowly recovered, a real booming disassociated itself from the noises in his head; and he eagerly raised his head.
No rain had fallen in weeks; the grass was as dry as tinder; and the old bleached shack itself almost as inflammable as gunpowder.
It finally resolved itself into the air of Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay with words in Cree.
Observant visitors to the National Academy of Design will allow that a tendency to greatness is beginning to develop itselfin certain directions among our artists.
They all produce analyses of the ore, and the play itself being o'er, the curtain falls.
But, indeed, the popular meaning, thanks to popular common sense, will generally be found to contain in itself the root-meaning.
How did it get past or through the other, till each set of plants, after long internecine competition, settled itself down in the sheet of land most congenial to it?
When I accepted the unexpected and undeserved honour of being allowed to lecture here, the first subject which suggested itself to me was Natural Theology.
And the colt shies across the road, runs up the bank, rears on end; putting itself thereby, as many a man does, in real danger.
She hated the life that showed itself so hostile to her.
She had fancied that a light streamed from an eye that saw, and lighted both itself and what it looked upon.
You talk strangely--as if there were not room enough within a circle of two inches for a soul that can at times express itself in two words.
He felt the pressure of the hand, which then withdrew itself hesitatingly from his.
As you read it, all drew itself together again, and now stands entire before me.
In the one before, which was my first, I drew back from nothing which pressed itself forward and promised to be advantageous.
Meanwhile the storm, which had circled muttering around the horizon half the night, approached in its might, spread itself over the forest, and then paused.
But the face had impressed itself feature by feature upon her memory.
Over Vesuvius lay a broad grey sweep of mist, which spread itself out towards Naples, and overshadowed the little towns along the coast.
That he was altered, that the first glow of love had paled, that his heart was no longer sure of itself had not escaped Mary's penetration.
Ever stronger the unholy determination twined itselfabout her heart.
Hence, the doctrine itself (not admitted by the Eastern Church).
To represent the sound itself the spelling cooeeis generally used.
The emergency currencyitself immediately began to be retired by its issuers.
Thereupon the bank steps in; it bids against the dealer, and if he does not offer a good price, buys the estate itself and resells it later in the year, when the market is more favourable.
Moreover, the paper currency itself tended to obtain full employment for the laborer, for the very reason that it diminished his real income.
A good share of the American agricultural population has been so steadily bred to the easy and careless use of virgin soil that it cannot accommodate itself to more intensive methods.
No; the London office is itself a branch office and much of the ultimate settlement of balances takes place there.
The extensive use of credit is not of itself a sign that a community is well off.
Thus it is commonly stated that the outbreak of a crisis is due to lack of confidence--as if the lack of confidence was not in itself the very thing which needs to be explained.
The phenomenon shows itself most strikingly in stock exchange loans, especially in a center like New York.
The regional system itself gained much support because it was believed by many that it would lessen the financial predominance of New York City.
Moreover, the term "money" itself is used so loosely and vaguely that we can come to agreement on price theories only by first agreeing upon what we mean by "money.
Industry has slackened rather than collapsed, and the disturbance itself has been comparatively short-lived, with the prospects of an early rebound.
The cup itself actually offered to this good friend might in truth well be startling, for it was composed beyond question of ingredients oddly mixed.
The air, for Milly Theale, was, from the very nature of the case, destined never to rid itself of a considerable chill.
They ate and drank that night, in truth, as if in the spirit of this decision; whereby the air, before they separated, felt itself the clearer.
This was so much a necessity that thought by itself only went on in the void; it was from the immediate air of life that it must draw its breath.
She was to feel at this crisis that no clear, no common answer, no direct satisfaction on this point, was to reach her; she was to see her question itself simply go to pieces.
It was the language of the house itself that spoke to him, writing out for him, with surpassing breadth and freedom, the associations and conceptions, the ideals and possibilities of the mistress.
That's of course by itself a great boon; so please don't think I don't know it.
His head with its aureole of bushy, grizzled hair set itself jauntily upon one side, and from it and from his face and his whole great frame breathed a wicked jollity quite indescribable.
The gates of the palisade were open, and through them streamed Councilors, Burgesses, and officers, while the bank itselfwas thronged with the generality.
And beneath the ugliness of the mask that now presented itself there was only Death at last.
We walked on, and the beast, addressing itselfto motion, followed at our heels.
The next instant the door was burst open, and a most villainous, fiery-red face thrust itself inside.
By this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bearbaiting.
Her eye fastened itself upon the purple square of blotting paper which looked, in the light of the lamp, like glowing metal.
And as their joy expresseditself at first in a happy silence, Papa stepped up behind them and shook them and said: "Will you be merry, you little scamps?
If I have nothing more to do, I must die," I answer and feel with joy how my defiance steels itself in these words.
He had remarkably white, narrow hands, and a small, curly beard, which was clipped so close along the cheeks that the skin itself seemed to have a bluish shimmer.
He continued to whistle, and looked up at a hanging lamp, which defined itself against the window niche by means of a wreath of gay artificial flowers.
But Toni felt that her soul could not drag itself to any bourne of peace if, for her own advantage, she cast one who was innocent to lasting and irremediable destruction.
A three-year-old full-blooded horse, recently imported from Hull, had proven itself abnormally sensitive and had brought him to the verge of despair by its fearfulness and its moods.
Need he be surprised that the last remnant of her lost and corrupted youth rose in impassioned rebellion against him and, thinking to save itself, hurled itself to destruction?
The tame animal stepped with dignity upon his outstretched hand and permitted itself to be lifted into the light.
A wave of bliss under which I almost suffocated, poureditself out over me.
Then indeed my wish would have fulfilled itself promptly.
The "Hotel Germania," the most reputable hotel in the county-seat itself was for rent.
It is the yearning that reaches out afar and yet restrains itself harmoniously within itself.
The elephant every time it passes along the street rubs itself against the wall of my house, and being angry, I said these words.
When she had done so the serpent twined itself round the fagot like a rope, and said, "Now lift it on to your head, but when you reach home, lay your burden down gently.
The raja's mahout was in the habit of taking his elephant along that street, and every time it passed, it rubbed itself against the wall of Gumda's house.
The young crane felt much pity for its afflicted friend, and could not bear the thought of itself being in a better position.
Then the Upel flower allowed itself to be plucked, and the bridegroom returned to his company bearing it with him.
Men are never long together without speaking of women, and I said how inevitably men's lives ended where they began, in the keeping of women, and their strength failed at last and surrendered itself to their care.
His gaiety of heart could not withhold itself from any chance of response, but he did wish always to be fully understood, and to be liked by those he liked.
No doubt he knew it, for what that most alert intelligence did not know of itself was scarcely worth knowing.
For instance, the play which satirizes a particular class, however deep its reflections and accurate its knowledge upon the subject satirized, must necessarily be obsolete when the class itself has become so.
A sweet voice ordered the coachman to stop, and then addressed itself to me.
Clutterbuck ceased, and the glow of his enthusiasm diffused itself over his sunken eye and consumptive cheek.
The light has wasted itself away beneath the bushel.
But if marriage itself be so desirable, what words shall I use sufficiently expressive of my congratulation at the particular match you have chosen, so suitable in birth and station?
Never consider that vanity an offence, which limits itself to wishing for the praise of good men for good actions: next to our own esteem, says the best of the Roman philosophers, 'it is a virtue to desire the esteem of others.
Ambition reminds me of what Bacon says of anger--'It is like rain, it breaks itself upon that which it falls on.
In the cold and friendless world with which I mixed, there was a heart which had years ago given itself wholly up to me.
It must not be perfect in the old school, it must be daring in a new one;--it must effect a through revolution in taste, and build itself a temple out of the ruins of the old worship.
The exclusiveness of court society at the capital made itself felt in all circles, and the consequence was that genius sprung from the lower orders was almost sure not to receive its due share of attention.
It takes genius to cross the line into the realm of the hitherto unknown, and the contemporary generation usually occupies itself mainly with making little of the new discovery.
Without losing anything of itself it hands over in multiplication or reproduction a force equal to itself to the new being that is born from it.
The first employment of the stethoscope by rolling up sheets of paper is of itself a sign of his readiness of invention.
Even in a fasting animal the liver itself and the blood leaving it showed the presence of a form of sugar.
It suffices for me if I can only feel sure that this method will commend itself to a few worthy and learned men who will make it of use to many patients.
His character as an observer, rather than a student of books, showed itself very early.
It can manufacture crystalline sugar at one moment and consume it at another, laying by stores for itself to-day using them up to-morrow.
This vital force that is thus handed over need not necessarily manifest itself at once, but may lie dormant for a long time to be awakened to manifestations of life by the concurrence of proper conditions in its environment.
In a word, the living cell {303} presents a marvellous plasticity, which exerts itself without the slightest disturbance by minimal deviations of forces due to dissymmetrical influence.
And the Christ-life in us, developed and set free, will go by its very nature reaching out and spending itself wherever there is want, in love and longing for the bare places and the far-off.
Each one lays itself out for the special trust committed to it.
The seed-vessel belongs to the seed, only and for ever: it is formed for itself and has no purpose apart.
The plant itself asks for nothing to keep, nothing to show, nothing to glory in from its whole life toil.
It withdraws itself quietly into the inner shrine where God is working out that which is eternal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "itself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
