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Example sentences for "thought myself"

  • I thought myself a lucky fellow to be left here.

  • And now, in the one remaining point on which I thought myself strong, I find myself weakest of all.

  • I could not moderate my joy, when I found myself delivered from the danger I have mentioned; I thought myself to be in a dream, and could scarcely believe myself to be out of danger.

  • I was incensed at this usage, but afraid of resenting it, because I happened to be in a strange place, and perceived the person who spoke to me was a brawny fellow, for whom I thought myself by no means a match.

  • I thought myself equal to again going to the trial, which recommenced, after six or seven weeks' cessation, on account of the judges going the circuit.

  • I perhaps ought to have met the storm, had I thought myself capable of resisting it.

  • I thought myself so secure that I laughed at his mystery and circumspection as at a habit he had contracted with ministers and magistrates whose offices he much frequented.

  • I sat down then, still scarce in charity with my butcher, for such I could not help considering him, and was moreover not a little piqued at the gay, satisfied air of his countenance, which I thought myself insulted by.

  • You cannot imagine how much I thought myself bound, by being thus allowed to remain loose, and how much spirit this confidence in me gave me, so that I was even from my heart careless how much my flesh might suffer in honour of it.

  • At length a supreme anguish seized me, a red cloud passed over my eyes, I felt my heart freezing, and I thought myself dying.

  • I thought myself insensible to love, but I had hardly seen her before I conceived a violent passion for her.

  • Up to this hour I thought myself rational; but it appears I am so no longer.

  • Then I thought myself of a little rising ground, a good bit in advance, whence, perhaps I might be able to see something of what was passing; and I made my way across the street, to a lane that led round on the north.

  • It was also a little satisfaction to me to hear that Her Grace of Portsmouth had urged the Duke of York's return; for I thought myself not a little responsible for her change of face.

  • I thought myself bound in duty to caress him, and on his side, as he thought that he ought to pay me in the same money, I was afraid of his ruining his health for me, and that idea made me very unhappy.

  • But I thought myself bound in honour not to retract.

  • In my error I thought myself unworthy of presenting myself before your eyes, and, in spite of love, horror made me shudder.

  • Tis yet but a short time--in every account but my own--since I thought myself forming a legal claim to address Miss Eugenia Tyrold as my sister.

  • I expected to be shut out from your heart,--I thought myself abandoned--I looked forward only in death to receiving your forgiveness!

  • I thought myself again in the bosom of my loved family!

  • After my introduction to Juliette, I paid her four or five visits, and I thought myself justified, by the care I had given to the examination of her beauty, in saying in M.

  • I thought myself made by nature to wear and to honour the military costume, which I had adopted through the most fortunate impulse.

  • Her prediction caused me both surprise and pleasure, and feeling deep reverence for her, I thought myself bound to assist the realization of her foresight.

  • Knowing her heart, her candour, and the generosity which had prompted her to say that I was more to be pitied than blamed, I thought myself bound to prove by my sincerity that I deserved her esteem.

  • There was no room in any of the inns; and I thought myself happy at last to get one small room in a private house, for which I paid five guineas a week.

  • At last I thought myself dead, and yet I fancied myself a visitor of that Gothic chapel we wished to build, dear Julia, and standing before my own tomb.

  • I thought myself on the voyage, when, behold my carriage stopped at the door of the inn on the Marine Parade at Brighton!

  • I told him I had no personal interest in view but to disengage myself from the public disturbances without any private advantage, and that for the same reason I thought myself obliged to come off with reputation and honour.

  • I thought myself obliged to write from Brest, requesting Dr Franklin to order payment after necessary security.

  • Fagel; and although the Ambassador does not yet know that I am acquainted with it, I thought myself obliged to abstain discreetly from writing or speaking about it for obvious reasons.

  • It is a seed, which I thought myself bound to sow in your country, the only place in the known world where it could spring up.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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