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Example sentences for "show himself"

  • Because he is clad in Quaker gray there is little need for the Vireo to show himself as he sings, and he remains for the most part concealed in the dense foliage, a vocal embodiment of the living green.

  • The bird has an aristocratic air which is unmistakable; and, once he has deigned to show himself, appears to expect deference as his due.

  • He will now be obliged to show himself amiable.

  • He didn't have to show himself," Tesno muttered.

  • But it was necessary now to show himself back at the saloon, to buy these men a drink.

  • He could hardly endure to show himself at his club, fearing that every one would be talking of him as the man who was separated from his wife,--perhaps as the man of whose wife Colonel Osborne was the dear friend.

  • It was these that made this man show himself to be a lunatic.

  • I told Roger to wait until half-past nine, and then to come aboard with old Bonnet or without him, if he didn't show himself by that time.

  • He had only to show himself to arouse enthusiasm.

  • His decision not to show himself aroused, and justly, very great disapproval.

  • The Emperor of Austria visited his relatives in Bavaria almost every year, but in spite of the friendly relations between Ludwig and the Empress the King used not to show himself to her husband.

  • He would walk through the streets just to show himself off, as though one could tell by his appearance what position he occupied.

  • Howe complains that he could not venture to show himself in the streets of London, and that his health had suffered from want of air and exercise.

  • The vulgar long continued, at every important crisis, to whisper that the time was at hand, and that King Monmouth would soon show himself.

  • He bad only to show himself on the coast of Lorn; and an army would, in a few days, gather round him.

  • He humbles, confounds, sears them; the more furious the attack, the more does he show himself invincible to assault and terrible to assailants.

  • Why does he show himself so zealous a Catholic at present?

  • Very soon he began to show himself to me as he was, with a sort of fearlessness that was almost impudent.

  • She longed for him to show himself at his best.

  • And this man, as I have said, began to show himself to me with a tremendous frankness.

  • For the second time they fiercely demanded money, and called for the defterdar with such savage cries that he was compelled to show himself.

  • After breakfast he dressed himself with great care, for he meant to show himself in the best possible aspect.

  • He was now a citizen of the world by his reputation; the past was his province, in which he was recognized as a master; the idol's pedestal was ready for him, but he betrayed no desire to show himself upon it.

  • Not infrequently too did he show himself in advance of his time in humanity and liberality of sentiment, as e.

  • Their lies and heretical fables are now so completely exploded that even day-labourers and cow-men could prove to scholars their emptiness, and the pope with his cardinals ventures not for shame to show himself in the city of Rome.

  • He was so well aware of this, we soon heard that he had left the city in secret; and so far our endeavours were successful, for it was long before he ventured again to show himself.

  • What a magnificent opportunity was this first night of Revolt to show himself to the Parisians, who were believing him to have gone under, to enter the great whirlpool once more through the swing door of his box at the Nouveautes!

  • He went about his preparations as one that had no private stake in the venture; but he was therefore the more punctilious to show himself worthy of her trust and sensible of the charge it laid upon him.

  • Ambitious to excel for her sake, to show himself worthy of such a love, he had at last shaken off the strange torpor of his youth, and revealed himself as the poet for whom Italy waited.


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