He did not even take the time to place himself in the hands of his valet de chambre for a minute, but from the perron went straight into the premier salon.
If D'Artagnan had wished to place himself as a vidette for an expedition, he could not have succeeded better.
When it was all over, he went to place himself in the clerk's way.
Thus the old man was able to place himself in sight of the Queen-mother; but when she saw him, she affected anger.
Alessandro, delighted to be quit of a man so difficult to manage in what concerned Florence, applauded this decision, which spared him a murder, and advised Strozzi to place himself at the head of Catherine's household.
At this time, when the ambition of Bonaparte every day took a farther flight, General Clarke took it into his head to go into the box of the First Consul at the "Francais," and to place himself in the front seat.
General Bonaparte left Cairo in the utmost haste to place himself at the head of the troops which he had ordered to quit their cantonments and march down to the coast.
A general who obstinately refuses to place himself in accord with the political situation forfeits the confidence of his employers and the cordial support of the Administration.
Indeed, it rather would seem that he was forced into that situation of eminence by the influence of general opinion, joined to concurring circumstances, than that he deliberately aspired to place himself there.
An attempt made by any one among the princes to place himself at the head of the whole of Germany would have been frustrated by the rest.
Hotze, a gallant Austrian general, who, mindful of his Swiss origin, had attempted to place himself at the head of his countrymen, was compelled to retrace his steps.
While these resolutions were being discussed Lullier had come to place himselfat the disposal of the Committee.
The officers, growing hot, decreed the arrest of Keratry, proclaimed the Commune, and summoned Duportal to place himself at their head.
Arnold also put in his appearance for a moment, and then went to place himself at the head of his battalion.
That gentleman wished the Irish repealers to join the chartist movement, and to place himself at the head of both.
From the very conditions, indeed, upon which the Marquess of Rockingham consented to form the new ministry, and to place himself at the head, it was clear that his administration would not be of long duration.
By this means he hoped to excite the nations of Italy against their Roman masters, and to place himself in the position of the leader of a national movement rather than that of a foreign invader.
If a man has once got his general point of view, if he has striven with success to place himself at the centre, what follows is of less consequence.
A man writing about little ones seems able to place himself outside, and thus to gain more calmness and freedom of vision than the more passionate interest or yearning of women permits to them in this field of art.
There now only wanted a chief to command the holy expedition, and the new Crusaders came to solicit the prince of Tarentum to place himself at their head.
He left Palestine with the project of returning thither; and in his journey to Rome, he promised the pope to place himself at the head of a new crusade.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "place himself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
