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Example sentences for "ourself"

Lexicographically close words:
ourang; ouranou; oure; ourn; ours; oursels; ourselues; ourselves; ousand; ouse
  1. Ourself will mingle with society And play the humble host.

  2. Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night; to make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Till supper time alone.

  3. And we, a novice in this large and exhilarating tract of life, thought to ourself that this was the ultimate honour that could be conferred upon a lowly co-author.

  4. We reassure ourself with his remark: Though he be surrounded with sights that are magnificent, the wise man will remain calm and unconcerned.

  5. But somehow we cannot shake ourself loose from the instinctive conviction that imagination is the without-which-nothing of the art of fiction.

  6. For an hour or so we read a rubbishy novel, thinking to ourself that when the Max Beerbohm Express reached that lovely Huntington Valley neighbourhood, we would lay down the book and study the scenery, which we know by heart.

  7. And we said to ourself that it would be a proper thing for one who was connected with the triumphal onward march of a play that was knocking them cold on the one-night circuit to flourish a little and show some sign of worldly vanity.

  8. Some day We'll go over to Trafalgar Square ourself and put a new face on that statue, and it will bear some resemblance to us, unless We are mistaken.

  9. If We had been there ourself We'd have felt worse about it," he said.

  10. In imagination we find ourself trying to look forward to the close of another century, and surmising what may then be the condition of these isolated spots of earth.

  11. My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best Do or undo, as if ourself were here.

  12. Now for ourself and for this time of meeting.

  13. Our subjects, sir, Will not endure his yoke; and for ourself To show less sovereignty than they, must needs Appear unkinglike.

  14. Love our neighbour as ourself is trouble-breeding; but we must first love ourself as a precaution that our neighbour will not suffer both in body and in mind.

  15. What this is, what this ravishment of happiness is, cannot be known or guessed till we ourself have experienced it.

  16. We will not procure, either by ourself or any other, anything from any man whereby any of these concessions or liberties may be revoked or abated.

  17. Now we feel ourself under obligation to the reader to give him the correct interpretation of this binding of Satan a thousand years, and of his being loosed at the end of that period.

  18. But while we recognise the natural character of the prejudice to which these unhappy men are subject, we can neither receive their biassed evidence, nor address ourself to their inflamed and angered minds.

  19. As we find ourself in the predicament of not being able to describe (to our own satisfaction) nice little couples in the abstract, we purpose telling in this place a little story about a nice little couple of our acquaintance.

  20. The knowledge of God and ourself is such an important factor in the work of our spiritual perfection that St. Augustin constantly prayed for it, saying: "Lord grant that I may know Thee and myself.

  21. The Person is One in all the manifold phases of the Many, through which we transmigrate, and we find ourself perpetually, because we cannot lose ourself personally in the mazes of the many.

  22. He left us to dance a quadrille, and finding ourself accidentally in the same set, we looked at his ornamental and lover-like acquittal of himself with a kind of wonder at what Minerva would say!

  23. We remember being very much astonished, a year or two ago, at finding ourself able to read the thoughts of a lady of this city, as she expressed them in an admirable improvisation upon the piano.

  24. Had we space to chronicle individual heroism, we might fill page after page with brave and noble achievements; but as it is, we shall confine ourself to those connected with our most prominent characters.

  25. We play at paste, Till qualified for pearl, Then drop the paste, And deem ourself a fool.

  26. Let every man be master of his time Till seven at night; to make society The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself Till supper time alone: while then, God be with you!

  27. Ourself will mingle with society, And play the humble host.

  28. How do we determine that we are not dreaming, and that we shall not wake up to-morrow morning and find ourself on the Arno?

  29. We have pledged Ourself to secure Thy triumph upon earth and to exalt Our Cause above all men, though no king be found who would turn his face towards Thee.

  30. We have, on a previous occasion, revealed Ourself unto you, and ye recognized Me not.

  31. This incident is a source of pride to ourself beyond any thing experienced by any urchin besides.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ourself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.