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Example sentences for "threw myself"

  • I threw myself prostrate on the stone floor.

  • As if hunted by a thousand devils and furies, I ran away homewards through the park--I shut myself up in my lodgings, and gnashing my teeth with rage and despair, threw myself on the bed.

  • Then losing all self-possession, I threw myself on the ground before her.

  • My heart smote me; I threw myself on the ground, and wept bitterly.

  • When they opened the door, I threw myself on the bed, and cried still more vociferously.

  • I threw myself down on the sofa, as if frantic with grief.

  • I threw myself on my knees, and in a voice apparently choked with emotion, demanded her blessing.

  • Illustration] "I threw myself on a chair and burst into a flood of tears.

  • Taking the hint, I threw myself upon my couch, and composed myself.

  • Exhausted with the day's business, I threw myself upon my couch, drew my cloak over me, composed myself, and in a few minutes was sound asleep.

  • I threw myself back, deftly avoided the lunge, and he came plump on my upstretched sword, gave a long gasp, and sank down.

  • It was night before I was tolerably composed; and as I threw myself on my couch within the hut, I wept bitterly as a child, till sleep came to relieve my misery.

  • I threw myself out of my saddle as I spoke, and Pedro following my example, we ran as fast as we could towards the rocks.

  • It at all events relieved me from the pain I was suffering; and when Jose left me to keep watch with the other servants on the officers, I threw myself on my bed in the hopes of obtaining some sleep.

  • Full of trust in the Almighty, I threw myself at the feet of her majesty, who granted me her gracious protection.

  • I threw myself at her feet, and succeeded in calming her anger.

  • I threw myself on my knees and kissed the holy cross on his most holy slipper.

  • I was tragically unhappy and so gloomy that I threw myself on the bed, and mother, fearing illness, sent for the doctor.

  • When she refused to let me, I threw myself in front of the horses, and when I was lifted from the ground I determined not to allow mother to face the misfortune alone.

  • I just felt the pressure of the pain, and before they led me away I threw myself by her bed crying, and then a strange thing happened; her burning lips were upon my hot forehead, and her poor, thin fingers moved through my hair.

  • Accordingly, I followed a sharp turning which led through a little lane to the cottage, and making my way through the first room into the back one, I threw myself on a bed, trembling and breathless.

  • The moment Martha left me I threw myself on the floor of the desert room.

  • I threw myself on my uncle's bed, and lay lost in despair!

  • Again I threw myself on my knees by his bed.

  • I threw myself upon my bed in a state of mental and bodily fatigue, impossible to describe.

  • And, my feelings somewhat relieved by the penning of these epistles, I threw myself upon a couch to await the morning.

  • I sent to request the king to come to me; and when he entered I threw myself at his feet, entreating him to appease his daughter on any terms, and to let me go away, since I brought such trouble into his family.

  • I rushed into its depth as if it had been a mine of marvels, threw myself on the ground, and gazed into the sky as if I had now for the first time discovered its true relation to the earth.

  • I threw myself on the ground, and offered back my poor wretched self to its owner, to be taken and kept, purified and made divine.

  • I threw myself at her feet, and seizing her hand, bedewed it with a thousand tears.

  • I threw myself on my knees, and Heaven, for the last time, granted me the consolation of shedding tears.

  • You may preserve my life, madame, but how I know not," and I threw myself down on the bed in despair.

  • I went to my own chamber, threw myself on my bed, and wept long, and freely.

  • She had apparently lifted an old Bible by the front cover to fling it on the table, for as I threw myself into a chair my eye fell upon the open print near the beginning.

  • With the countenance and emotions of a maniac I threw myself on him--I strove to draw his sword--I clung to his neck with the ferocious resolve to strangle him: he was obliged to call for assistance to disengage himself from me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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