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Example sentences for "throw myself"

  • I long to throw myself at your feet, and receive from your own lips the blessings of such good parents!

  • I saw how I should esteem this worthy man's good offices, and said to him in quite another tone, that innocent as I was, I saw that my best course was to throw myself on his kindness respecting Mdlle.

  • Madame Manzoni advised me to throw myself on your mercy, and she gave me a little box which you shall have to-day.

  • I throw myself in an arm-chair in order to breathe and to recover from my surprise.

  • At one time, What have I to do, thought I, but to throw myself at once into the protection of Lady Betty Lawrance?

  • I did go down half way of the stairs, resolved to throw myself at his feet wherever he was.

  • My next impulse was to throw myself down on the ground and give up the struggle.

  • I kept it fixed there with all the strength I could command, and pressing myself upwards got sufficiently high to throw myself flat on the snow and to scramble forward.

  • Ah, Anna, if I could only presume to throw myself at your feet, and tell you how much and what I feel, I should be the happiest fellow in all England.

  • I shall have to throw myself in the river, like a Hindoo, for purification.

  • I throw myself on your generosity, and trust you to remember there is an old man that loves you, and has more money than he knows what to do with.

  • I throw myself entirely on your judgment.

  • All the time I was sorely tempted to throw myself at her feet, and tell her of my despair.

  • I ran to her to throw myself at her feet.

  • At times I was tempted to imitate the monks and starve my body in order to conquer my senses; at times I felt like rushing out into the street to throw myself at the feet of the first woman I met and vow to her eternal love.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue flowers; catch some; curiously enough; dozen feet; found some; general outline; her shoulders; miles from; more slave; pure gold; seeing him; tenth century; throw away; throw down; throw herself; throw light; throw stones; throw them; throwing light; throwing stones; thrown away; thrown from; thrown over; thrown overboard; thrown upon; will make the land