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Example sentences for "show herself"

  • My sister was, as I have said, the first to show herself--then came an extraordinary apparition.

  • To show herself as she was explained it only so far as she could express that; which was just the freedom she could least take.

  • It had been terror that had directed her steps; the need constantly to show herself detached and free, followed by the sterner one not to show herself, by the same token, limp and empty.

  • Nevertheless she chose on the evening before their return to Benham to show herself at dinner at Delmonico's, just to let the world of so-called fashion perceive her and ask who she was.

  • He was even glad that she should show herself appreciative of the merits of civilized comfort, for he had been afraid lest her ascetic scruples would lead her judgments too far in the opposite direction.

  • Selma felt herself an adept through her former experience, and she lost no opportunity to show herself in public and bear witness to her devotion to her husband's cause.

  • This made eighteen apparitions all told; and never again did the Lady show herself.

  • For she always wanted to lead me on and on, and whenever I paused she would return to show herself, or to chide or encourage me in her mysterious language.

  • The only difference was that the musical, inarticulate sounds were now less often heard, and that she was no longer afraid to show herself to me.

  • But he is anxious for her in any case to show herself, and says, he should not have the heart to reproach her.

  • Balked of their expected prey, the rioters grew more furious than ever; in useless wrath they kept firing against the walls of the palace, and shouting out a demand for the queen to show herself.

  • She was hardly dressed when a huge crowd collected on the terrace under her window, shouting for her to show herself; and, when she came forward, they began to accost her in a mingled tone of expostulation and menace.

  • That rosa sulphurea is a haughty high-bred beauty, that disdains even to show herself beautiful, unless she is pleased — I love better what comes nearer home to the charities and wants of every-day life.

  • Not daring to show herself to Hugh in her chilled state of body and mind, she went into the kitchen.

  • She was very sorry to show herself so weak, but she could not help it; part of his words had come too close.

  • She was enchanted to show herself in her glory to those who remembered her in the modest plumage of her girlhood.

  • Aurora, with a comedy of pride, threw up her chin, lifted her arms, and turned as if on a pivot, to show herself off in her elegance.

  • She had only to open the door, she had only to cry his name aloud, only to show herself, and he would be at her side!

  • She did not tell him that she was not alone; that her woman was even then sitting outside, under strict orders not to show herself.

  • It was he, and she had but to open the door, she had but to show herself in the lighted doorway, and he would come to her!

  • For in proportion as a wife perceives that she is faithfully and justly cared for, so much the more will she exert her energies to show herself such.


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