Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.
Absorbed in meditations upon his new weapons, Grôm set himself to build a small fire before the entrance of the grotto.
Then he set himself coolly to the task of completing their shelter for the night.
And now, laboring in a keen excitement, he set himself to carry out his boast.
And straightway he set himself to examine how securely the trees were interknit.
Having satisfied himself as to the power of his bow and the range of his arrows, Grôm set himself next to the problem of marksmanship.
He set himself to eradicate idolatry throughout his fief with the strong arm, and his fierce intolerance provoked revolts which ended in the destruction of the Christian town at the newly opened free port.
Specially minute is the chronicle when it treats of the Mido kwampaku, as Michinaga was called after he set himself to build the monastery Hojo-ji.
Like Kant, he set himselfto answer David Hume, and the essay prefixed to his edition of Hume's Treatise on Human Nature.
This work brought great fame to Baccio, who, after finishing the Laocoon, set himself to draw a scene on a sheet of royal folio laid open, in order to carry out a design of the Pope, who wished to have the Martyrdom of S.
Baccio, encouraged by the comforting advice of Leonardo, set himself to copy in marble an antique head of a woman, of which he had shaped a model from one that is in the house of the Medici.
If Vaughan had been intimate with anyone in the House he would have learned what was afoot; and he might have taken steps to set himself right.
It was all of no service; the question came back remorselessly, and at last he set himself to face it.
Well, he would not shrink from it He set himselfto ask what weapons he could use.
He set himselfto the task conscientiously, and with a rich enjoyment.
He set himself to analyse an inward dumb reproach which filled him--to ask a reason for it--to trace it to some source.
That is well,' said Paul, and he set himself to bear the burden he had gathered.
When he set himself to collect traditions for this special purpose, he was dependent on secondary evidence, on the information collected from scholars and followers of these primitive elders.
At all events it would seem to have been composed before he had separated from the Church and set himself up as a heretical teacher.
Then he set himself to talk as cheerfully as possible.
Wolfenden was now three down, and with all the stimulus of a strong opponent he set himself to recover lost ground.
This system, abridged and modified so as to meet the requirements of the colony, heset himself to reestablish.
He set himself diligently to work in his own district, and, in the face of many difficulties, succeeded in organizing the system which he has ever since administered with such benefit and satisfaction to the community in which he resides.
Instigated by his seigneur he set himself to write contemporary history, to tell "la pure veriteit de tout li fait entierement al manire de chroniques.
He set himself to ascertain the history with as much accuracy as the comparison of various accounts by eye-witnesses and actors would allow.
I immediately noticed something different about his style as he set himself at the plate, and then it struck me that he was standing back in the box and had a long bat.
When he shifted toward second base the batter set himself for a ball over the outside corner.
Having arrived there, he set himself straightway to make the designs according as the invention presented itself in the work, without giving it any further thought and without making any compartments.
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