The animals themselves were tiny, jellylike creatures incased in a spherical, silicious shell from dozens of holes in which fat, restless tentacles protruded.
Whispers flew about and became magnified, but the facts themselvescould not be magnified.
They had simply absorbed the seared portion into themselves as food, however, and grown on outward as before.
So, when the vibrations from the piano strike them, they vibrate in sympathy, only the piano vibrations are so strong and the shells so fragile that they rack themselves to bits, and the animals are killed.
At last it was still, while the engines seemed to be trying to rack themselves to pieces in their terrific attempt to drive the ship against the Thing that held it back.
Since their discovery that the jelly formation was caused by the tiny animalcules fusing themselves into one organism, Gerrod had thought of searing the edge of the silvery mass with a hot flame.
Within an hour from the appearance of the shimmer that showed that the protecting shell had been formed tiny, fat, jellylike tentacles protruded themselves from openings in the newly formed shell.
When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure.
The soldiers advanced with such rapidity and impetuosity, although up to their necks in the water, that the enemy could not withstand the onset, but quitted the banks and betook themselves to flight.
Little dogs, of a white or red colour, enter the pipes through holes made in the reed screens, gambol about inside for a minute or two, come out again, and again show themselves a little higher up the pipe.
They are very shy, hiding themselves in the least visited recesses of the Forest, and are rarely seen except during the annual hunt, which takes place every spring.
They walked down what had once been a lane, arbored with grapevines and hedged in now with ugly tall weeds that thrust themselves up through the snow.
It was almost dark now, and the girls, realizing this, drew themselves up with a start.
They told him at dinner, which was a success in every way, Moselle and her daughter doing themselves proud in the viands and the serving thereof.
There was no sign, anywhere, that anyone but themselves had entered since Harry Pangborn made his investigation the day before.
They excused themselves by saying, that on an occasion of the present sort, they always left them at home, and cut up the whale with the shell which is affixed to the end of the throwing-stick.
Men abandoned themselves to the most desponding reflections, and adopted the most extravagant conjectures.
The sympathy and affection of Arabanoo, which had appeared languid in the instance of Nanbaree and his father, here manifested themselves immediately.
Both soldiers and convicts pleaded such loss of strength, as to find themselves unable to perform their accustomed tasks.
We may here casually note, that the crew had been by no means uninterested or silent spectators of passing events, but had, on the contrary, indulged themselves in a variety of conjectures as to their probable issue.
A group of the tenantry, many of whom were in a state of intoxication, had, in the meantime, formed themselves round the prisoner.
So, at least, thought the inmates of the arbor; nor did they by any means confine themselves to the gratification of a single sense.
They are all taking care of themselves below, and Peter Bradley has not made his appearance, so you need be in no hurry.
The voice of Turpin was now heard above the din and turmoil to sound a parley; and as he appeared disposed to offer no opposition, some of his antagonists ventured to raise themselves from the ground, and to approach him.
Concerning themselves little about their own steeds, the party took those which first offered, and embarking man and horse in the boat, soon pushed across the waters of the lutulent Don.
Guided by the firing, the report of which alarmed them, the keeper's assistants hastened in the direction of the sound, presenting themselves directly in the path Luke was about to take.
Several of the crew stationed themselves at the door.
If there is aught that may be revealed to my ear alone, I will not shrink from it, though the dead themselves should arise to proclaim the mystery.
I'm like the rest you see about in pants, cheating and lying, with or without pretending to themselves that they're honest.
And even the easier and better paid tasks, even what the capitalists themselves do--those things aren't dignified and beautiful.
Then they tore open the bundles and arrayed themselves in the fresh new underclothes, in the simple attractive costumes of jacket, blouse and skirt.
He loved the gaudy with which the rich surround themselves because good taste forbids them to talk of their wealth and such surroundings do the talking for them and do it more effectively.
Susan came shyly--and at the first glance into her face her associates despised themselves for their pettiness.
It enables comfortable people to delude themselves that all that can be done is being done to mitigate the misfortunes which the poor bring upon themselves.
As for women--if they have to work, what can they do but sell themselves into slavery to the machines, to the capitalists?
His neck was thin and long, and he wore a low collar--through that interesting passion of the vain for seeing a defect in themselves as a charm and calling attention to it.
The three, fired and maddened by the poison, were amusing themselves and two young men as recklessly intoxicated as they.
There would have been to their mirth a little more than mere surface and youthful ability to find some jest in the most crushing tragedy if only they could have kept themselves clean.
Violet seized Mabel by the hair, and the men interfered, all but coming to blows themselves in the mêlée.
There are other insects which do not confine themselvesto one or two articles, but make a general and indiscriminate attack upon our dead stock.
They do not confinethemselves to grass, but eat also the roots of corn; and it is to feast upon this grub more particularly that the rooks follow the plough.
The larvae of Dytisci fixing themselves by their suctorious mandibles to the body of fish, doubtless destroy an infinite number of the young fry of our ponds.
Two or three bees got upon the comb, stretched themselves over its edge, and with their heads downwards fixed their fore feet on the table upon which it stood, whilst with their hind feet they kept it from falling.
On the approach of winter the whole community shut themselves up in the nest, which, by the addition of repeated layers of silk, has at this time become so thick and strong as to be impervious to the wind and rain.
Within these the caterpillars retire at night, or in rainy weather, quitting the nest on fine days, and dispersing themselves over the neigbouring leaves, upon which they feed.
They are said to attach themselves very strongly to their possessors, and behave with a gentle intelligence that lifts them far above the greater part of the monkey race.
All felt themselves heartily welcome, and greatly enjoyed their sojourn of some weeks in that hospitable neighborhood and among near and dear relatives.
They were all gathered on the deck one bright, breezy morning, chatting cheerily, the children amusing themselves with their tee-tee pets.
They stayed there long enough to acquaint themselves with its beauties and all that might interest a stranger.
They have that reputation, and certainly some have shown themselves so; therefore, you would better not put temptation in the way of Tiny or Tee-tee.
The Captain smiled and said something to the man, speaking in Portuguese, a language spoken and understood by themselves only of all on board the vessel.
It was a quiet, uneventful time for her passengers, but they enjoyed themselves well in each other's society and waited patiently for a change of weather.
Not only their habitations, but those who labored in the fields, were guarded, being themselves armed at their ploughs, like the laborers of the prophet in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.
Availing themselves of an early opportunity to glut their hate, a party of them stole into the settlement of Berne, where they surprised and made prisoner of the Captain in his own house.
The greater number of these, as we have already seen, together with those who were arrested, had joined themselves to the enemy.
I should hope, for the sake of human nature and the honor of civilized nations, that the British officers had exerted themselves in restraining the barbarity of the savages.
The Indians receded before the whites for a time, and continued the deception by showing themselves at first in small numbers on the skirt of the forest, until they had accomplished the identical purpose they had in view.
Many people who controlthemselves for a long time finally lose patience, thinking it impossible to protract their mastery.
I saw the beginnings years ago, and I can remember one of our great New York dealers marking on his samples the colors that pleased most of his buyers, who themselves again were to place the goods in Oshkosh or Third Avenue.
The sun, the moon, the earth, and the innumerable stars contain within themselves the absolute nature.
If they are made to obey their parents they will yet still less accommodate themselves to their surrounding.
What is worth having is that many people thought that they saw themselves in the mirror of a period.
Until my maturer age I could not understand the game of Go,[18] and could not see how a man could busy himself with such a useless thing, which gave trouble but no pleasure; therefore I thought all people stupid who gave themselves up to it.
We learn that with all these hardships the rice-growers themselves cannot always afford this staple food of the country, for cheaper than rice are millet, and buckwheat, and the plants and fungi that grow without culture.
The gods themselves protected me from error in the choice.
Many had secretly held this opinion before; they now privately banded themselves into a party to work for it.
But it did no good; those rhymes accommodated themselves to the new step and went on harassing me just as before.
While these young people chat themselves into an acquaintanceship, let us take the liberty of inspecting the sweeter and fairer of the two.
They easily make themselves understood, but it is next to impossible to word an English sentence in such away as to enable them to comprehend it.
The English themselves planted it there, two hundred and fifty years ago, and there it remains; it has never spread.
The British force of Loyalists and Indians met Sullivan in one battle, and finding themselves over-matched and beaten, they scattered in all directions.
Finally the cars themselves depart in the way of the citizen, and for the few hours before dawn a new sound comes into the still thoroughfare--the cable whirring in its channel underground.
But after the first spasm of curiosity had passed away, there were those in the crowd who began to bethink themselves of some way to help.
The hoofs of the animals themselves did not make that wild clatter which I knew so well.
The Kickers crawled, their rifles in their left hands as they pulled and tuggedthemselves up with their right hands.
Just as they had proved that a great outrage was about to be perpetrated, warning orders arrived to hold themselves in readiness for active service abroad--in Rostina.
The Twelfth looked atthemselves and knew that they had a record.
I believe the Continental officers had stated themselves as being in favour of a cautious policy, whereas the men of the valley were almost unanimous in their desire to meet "Indian Butler" more than half way.
About twenty windless men suddenly arrived, and threw themselves upon the crest of the hill, and breathed.
The two women hurriedly freighted themselves with the roast and the vegetables, and sprang with them to placate the pig-buyers.
They have filled lower New York with a vast army of men who will chase to and fro and amuse themselves until almost nightfall.
The four children had taken advantage of the moment's pause before the crowd turned to fly, to edge themselves and drag each other into an arched doorway.
The children were rather in the way, but they made themselves as small as they could.
It and the pin that joined the two halves are themselves dust, and the dust is scattered over many lands and sunk in many seas.
The crowd dispersed, and nine men, wearing antelope-skins, grouped themselves in front of the opening in the hedge in the middle of the village.
They foundthemselves in a sort of turret--roofed, but open to the air at the sides.
I think I must have explained to you before how it was that the children were always able to understand the language of any place they might happen to be in, and to be themselves understood.
If we land, they land, and only the gods know whether they might not beat us in fight, and themselves survive to carry back the tale of Tyre's secret island to enrich their own miserable land.
The harbour was full of all sorts of ships, so that Cyril and Robert enjoyed themselves much more than their sisters.
They tried to comfort themselves by remembering the girl's promise of friendliness, but of course the thought of the charm was more comfortable than anything else.
The borderers cared little about speculative points of religion; but they shewed themselves much interested in the treasures which passed through their country, for payment of the English forces at Edinburgh.
They themselves are termed the King's Rentallers, or kindly tenants; under which denomination each of them has a right, of an allodial nature, to a small piece of ground.
Thus, at the assault of Rochemiglion "They within cast out great barres of iron, and pots with lyme, wherewith they hurt divers Englishmen, such as adventured themselves too far.
Halbert, or Hobbie Noble, appears to have been one of those numerous English outlaws, who, being forced to fly their own country, had established themselves on the Scottish borders.
By the same statutes, the chieftains and landlords, presiding over border clans, were obliged to find caution, and to grant hostages, that they would subject themselves to the due course of law.
The inscription records the defence made by Hobbie Hall, a man of great strength and courage against an attempt by the powerful family of Ker, to possess themselves of his small estate[42].
There they divided themselves into three parts, and tooke up three passages which the outlawes made themselves secure of, if from England side they should at any time be put at.
This destruction, so far as human agency is concerned, could not have been due to white men, but probably to the Apache, or possibly to the cliff villagers themselvesat the time of or shortly after the abandonment of the settlement.
I mention these facts as a matter of record of progress in the life of these people in adapting themselves to the new conditions or influences by which they are surrounded.
Among the Hopi themselves the ceramic art has degenerated, as the few remaining potters confess.
They arrived in the new province after dark and concealed themselves under the edge of the mesa, so near that they heard the voices of the Indians in their houses.
After this, all who were capable of moving were compelled to travel or drag themselvesuntil they came to the sand-hills of Mishoñinovi, and there the final disposition of the prisoners was made.
They are much more likely to have been permanent than temporary habitations of the same culture stock of Indians who availed themselves of rock shelters wherever the nature of the cliff permitted excavation in its walls.
Two masked men got up and placed themselvesbehind that chair.
Not enough could occur upon any one planet to keep such minds as theirs even partially occupied; and, unlike the Arisians, they could not satiate themselves in a static philosophical study of the infinite possibilities of the Cosmic All.
Here, too, apparently, as everywhere, the big cities are choking themselves to death with their own traffic.
Not even in the ships that were only holed--they blew themselves up!
He and his kind are not quite sane, of course, as you know; but I do not believe that even they are so insane as to be willing to subject themselves to the environment of your vessel.
We've got 'em going--mop 'em up before they can pull themselves together!
It was a peculiar sensation; it seemed as though the cars themselves were stationary, with the pavement flowing backward beneath them.
They were perforce in single file; one ship opposing at least one solid ring of giant sluggers who did not have to concern themselves with defense, but could pour every iota of their tremendous resources into offensive beams.
They, not the Patrol, were trying to force a show-down; to vindicate themselves and to confute those unspeakably unscrupulous Lensmen before Election Day.
His eyes jammed themselves shut; his jaw-muscles sprang into bands and lumps as they clamped his teeth hard together.
They did, however, keep themselves constantly and minutely informed as to everything these strange, devil-ridden white men did.
The officers madethemselves merry by passing many jokes with me, supposing they had a green Yankee to sport with.
Soon after, it commenced raining, when the Indians got up and stripped themselves naked, turned the canoe bottom upwards and put their clothes under it.
I have seen many red-whiskered fair complexioned men pass themselves off for men of color.
The Indians residing in villages on the sea-coast imagine themselves far superior to the inland tribes.
One of the laws I passed was to sell them only one bottle of rum per day, which they agreed to, and behaved themselves well for two or three weeks, caught some shell, and sold it to me.
They pay no tithes or taxes, require no locks to protect themselves from thieves, have neither taverns nor boarding houses, every traveller being made welcome at whatever house he may happen to stop.
Most of the able-bodied men of this and the neighboring villages fitted themselves out for a three months' voyage to the southward, to catch turtle.
They said they would sail the next morning at daylight, and then laid themselves down near the fire for the night.
These negroes were well apprised of this custom, and took great precaution to arm and defend themselves if they were attacked.
We looked back with a great deal of anxiety, and saw the pirates seated on the deck of the largest schooner, drinking liquor and making themselves merry, while we feared that they might change their minds, pursue us and take our lives.
I mounted the cart and proceeded towards the burying ground, on the road we found the mud so deep that the cart wheels buried themselves nearly up to the hubs.
They picked up their baggage and prepared for their departure; then laid themselves down near the fire, and soon fell asleep.
At this time I had learned that the English traders on the coast had held a meeting and entered into an agreement, pledging themselves never to carry me, nor take any letters to Jamaica or elsewhere, to help me to get away from this coast.
Old Lopes was appointed governor, and the officers taking possession of the vacant dwelling houses which the Spaniards had left, sat themselvesdown like private gentlemen.
They accepted of the Governor's terms, repaired to that place with all their men, and put themselves under the command of the General, who placed them in the hottest part of the battle, where they fought in the most gallant manner.
They are left to decide for themselves when it is best to be well.
The bare branches of the trees shivered in the wind, and a few snowbirds huddled themselves together cheerlessly here and there, as if even they wished themselves farther south.
He paid them a visit every morning, and insisted on their reporting themselves at his house when they went off duty in the evening.
They had arranged themselves as comfortably as possible to pass the night, when they were suddenly disturbed by the grating of a door and the swinging of a lantern.
Thus burdened, these eight noble English gentlemen charged right through an army of butchering, howling brutes, they themselves howling with the fiercest of them.
Two more of the same noble band of brethren sold themselves into slavery in the West Indies, in order that they might be allowed to preach to the slaves.
So, I think that, sometimes, when a believer in Christ does not feel himself advancing in divine things, he need not fret on that account; I am not certain that those who imagine themselves to be growing spiritually are really doing so.
Blind windows are fit emblems of illustrations which illustrate nothing, and need themselves to be explained.
It may be well to note that illustrations should not be too prominent, or, to pursue our figure, they should not be painted windows, attracting attention to themselves rather than letting in the clear light of day.
Nobody can say that the clergy are collecting for themselves this time, for on this Sunday it is wholly for your own selves.
They would fain hear some new things, they think themselves so perfect in the old, when they be no more skilful than this servant was in his Ten Commandments.
One says: "Clouds and rain sometimes obscure the atmosphere for several days together, and during this time the buds expand themselves into leaves.
They put their home life behind them, or kept it only as a fortifying memory, and threw themselves with fervour and abandon into the work to be done.
Besides keeping themselves strictly clean, the workers must also keep their houses and gardens in faultless order, for the sake of the children.
Tomotada dismounted, and after leading his horse to a shed in the rear, entered the cottage, where he saw an old man and a girl warming themselves by a fire of bamboo splints.
Therefore many of the female attendants ceased altogether to think about the right way of women, and began to study how to make themselves appear splendid in the eyes of men.
His guides conducted him to the place of honor, and respectfully seated themselves apart; while serving-maids, in costume of ceremony, brought refreshments.
Certain animals were thought to be able to transform themselves and cause mischief for humans.
It was no day for swimming; and the woodcutters took shelter in the ferryman's hut, -- thinking themselves lucky to find any shelter at all.
After speaking thus, they persuaded themselves that they desired a king, and forthwith debated whom they should choose.
Iranian lands rid themselves by similar methods of the Turcoman bands which harassed them.
In 581, the few remaining Jews in Palestine allied themselves with the Moabites and made a last wild effort for independence; a final defeat, followed by a final exile, brought them to irretrievable ruin.
There they had settled down in a permanent fashion, dwelling in houses of stone, and giving themselves up to the cultivation of the soil.
Specific charges of a still graver nature were made, that they had used the estates of their bishoprics in such a manner as to benefit themselves and their friends, at the expense of their sees.
At the same time other discrepancies forced themselveson his notice, and made him most uncomfortable.
For five days they defended themselves most valiantly, during which time they were under the necessity of killing their horses for food to save themselves from starvation.
Under these circumstances, a large number of the most valuable citizens organized themselves into a Committee of Vigilance, for the purpose of securing the punishment of criminals, at all hazards.
They did not advance toward our party, preferring, no doubt, to shroud themselves in their habits of aristocratic reserve, and keep themselves aloof from promiscuous travelers.
Wherefore doe men make themselves brave, but to riot and to revell?
Leonard and Helen settled themselves in two little chambers in a small lane.
With animals it is the same as with men; some enjoy an unmerited reputation, while others findthemselves the subjects of an undeserved opprobrium.
The eyes themselves glared in their sockets, lit up by some terrible emotion.
The Americans were the English people who had gone across the sea to make new homes for themselves in another country, where they could be free to govern themselves in their own way, without interference from the British government.
The churches of all denominations, if they are wise, will give themselves with increased zeal and devotion to the training of the Christian ministry.
The lesson, happily, was not lost on the men of the new order in Italy, and they seem at last to have extricated themselves from the toils of that miasmatic megalo-mania.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ego; her; him; itself; oneself; person; self; she; them; themselves; they; you; yourself
