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Example sentences for "throw himself"

  • Foedor did not know whether to throw himself at the feet of Vaninka or into the arms of her father.

  • The Emperor hoped in this manner to throw himself on the flank of Blucher's march, as he had done before at Champaubert; but the Prussian received intelligence of his approach and drawing his troops together, retired to Soissons.

  • Then I'll go there," said Humphrey, crossing the great chamber to throw himself on the blankets and skins.

  • He hoped, in this manner, to throw himself on the flank of Blucher's march, as he had done before at Champaubert.

  • Prussia, surrounded and studded with French garrisons, was more than ever hostile to France; and the king was willing, in spite of all that he had suffered, to throw himself at once into the arms of Russia.

  • Should he throw himself on the march of Schwartzenberg, would not the fiery Prussian be at the Tuileries, long before the Austrian could be checked on the Seine?

  • Andreossi (afterwards so celebrated) was commander of the advanced guard; Lannes (who became in the sequel Marshal Duke of Montebello) was the first to throw himself ashore at the head of some grenadiers.

  • Catilina was wedged in on both sides, and his supplies came to an end; nothing was left but to throw himself on the nearest foe, which was Antonius.

  • He had an impulse to throw himself on his knees and seize her hands and beg her not to go; but he knew there was no way of moving her; she would tell Griffiths what he had said and how he acted.

  • He made up his mind to throw himself on her mercy.

  • The minister of police, giving way to an impulse of despair, was about to throw himself at the feet of Louis XVIII.

  • His first impulse was to hasten to the palace of his father, the Conde d'Almeida; both longing to throw himself at the feet of a parent he revered, and knowing that he should there learn where Donna Theresa was residing.

  • Why, the count is dying to see you, I have so praised you to him; and as soon as he can escape from the side of our father, he will come to throw himself at your feet.

  • That done, it will be prudent for you to return to the Carrick camp; and there take the most effectual means to persuade your father to throw himself at once into the arms of Scotland.

  • At the fall of Dunbar, when he again founded his uprise on the ruins of his country, as soon as he had repeated his oaths of fidelity to Edward, he hastened to Thirlestane, to throw himself a second time at the feet of Lady Helen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle against; better understood; chop them; county superintendents; distinct variety; farre from; nearly twice; sexual congress; this movement; thou would; throw away; throw down; throw herself; throw himself; throw light; throw them; throwing herself; throwing himself; throwing light; thrown back; thrown down; thrown from; thrown overboard; thrown upon; until soft; when fully