Custer and Kilpatrick, with whom I was then serving, were at first immensely amused at the efforts of the militia officers to make themselves agreeable.
Both the boys were attracted, and began immediately, in the true Southern chivalrous style, to make themselves agreeable to the "likely gal.
This results from the fact that, up to five or six, children in town, brought up in a room and under the care of a nursery governess, do not need to speak above a whisper to make themselves heard.
That is not the way to make themselves attractive.
Has she given them an imposing manner, a stern eye, a loud and threatening voice with which to make themselves feared?
The Queen of the Country appointed two Men to attend us, that had enough of our Language to make themselves understood in some few Particulars.
I dined yesterday at Greenwich with some great personages, who tried to make themselves lively, not, like the Germans, by throwing themselves out of the window, but by making a vast amount of noise.
See, in addition, the strenuous efforts on the part of the clericals to make themselves detested, and to stretch the cord until it snaps.
I envy women their lot, for they have nothing to do but to make themselves beautiful, and to prepare for the effect which they seek to produce on others.
They stopped at Quibo to make themselves canoes, the trees there being well suited for the purpose, and some so large that a single trunk hollowed and wrought into shape, would carry forty or fifty men.
The commands of the King were strict and precise on this head; that the Governor should persuade the Flibustiers to make themselves inhabitants, and in default of prevailing by persuasion, to use force.
One day, some of our men being minded to make themselves merry, went ashore and cut down a great many cocoa-nut trees; from which they gathered the fruit, and drew about twenty gallons of the milk.
Some men take strong drink to make themselves warm, and some to make themselves cool.
Some men smoke to make themselves think, and some to keep themselves from thinking.
Some drink to keep themselves awake, and some to make themselves sleep.
This renders them as black as it is possible to make themselves, so that their's very much resemble the faces of executed men boiled in tar.
Colden observes of the five nations of Canada, that their faces were always painted in a frightful manner when they went out to war, "to make themselves terrible to their enemies.
It is reported," replied Socrates, "that there are some words so powerful that they who know them make themselves loved by pronouncing them, and that there are likewise other charms for the same purpose.
The 2 gratters weare to dresse the skins; the combes, the paint, to make themselves beautifull; the looking-glasses to admire themselves.
To make themselves handsome, they blacken their eyelids, paint their nails red, and wear gold rings in their ears and noses.
They are willing to make themselves useful, by reaping corn, and washing sheep; and a little reward satisfies them, such as a blanket, or an old coat.
There too they try to make themselves handsome by blackening their eyebrows and dyeing their hair.
There will be a sweet row when they find out the tanks are empty," added Howe, fully believing that the party had now done something to make themselves felt.
The runaways observed him with intense interest; for the time had come when they were to "make themselves felt.
This blunder was fatal to all their calculations, and they were unable to "make themselves felt.
The sun was well up in the sky, and signs of life and movement were beginning to make themselves manifest “down there,” before several tiny black specks appeared on the horizon coming up from the ground behind the marshes at Nieuport.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
