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Example sentences for "yourself"

Lexicographically close words:
youre; youres; yourn; yours; yoursel; yourselfe; yoursell; yourselves; yoursilf; yourt
  1. Because you would not then have incurred the humiliation of signing yourself Eugenie Berkow.

  2. But I really don't understand why you a troubling yourself all at once about things which you generally ignore altogether.

  3. Do not make yourself uneasy as to the spoilt lock, Herr Wilberg; I will take the responsibility on myself.

  4. Now look to yourself to find a way of settling the business.

  5. He is to have the triumph of knowing that you have come away from the city by yourself and made your way through the whole place in revolt, just that he should not be left alone?

  6. I had to hear once how repugnant both are to you, and can judge therefore of what the victory over yourself must have cost you.

  7. Well, be so good then as not to touch upon this subject again, and so agitate yourself still more.

  8. But you want to tear yourself from me and wildly expose yourself to the blind fury of this Hartmann.

  9. You could not forgive me that I had once done you a wrong, and in revenging yourself for it, you nearly sacrificed both yourself and me.

  10. You are bringing danger on me and yourself too by standing so near.

  11. I know there is a certain risk in retaining an element of discord like yourself among my hands, but I am willing to run the risk, if my trust in you meets with similar confidence.

  12. Will you take upon yourself the responsibility of all the care, the want, the chances of defeat, which this 'fighting it out' may bring with it?

  13. You had better busy yourself with the arrangements for your salon and for the soirees you will be giving in the city this winter, and leave to me the care and responsibility of matters which you understand nothing about.

  14. It's much better to put yourself in the hands of Boris Danilof and make a fortune in Europe than to play in a restaurant orchestra in New York; don't you think so?

  15. But you yourself still think it really, don't you?

  16. Just to reassure yourself that all's well.

  17. You do at any rate acknowledge, Grisel, that the old creature does appear, and that you saw him yourself step out into space when you were sitting down there under the willow shelling peas.

  18. The servants and all who inquire shall simply be told that my husband is confined to his room with--with a nervous breakdown, as you have yourself so glibly suggested.

  19. You mustn't let me tire you,' he said; 'but even on our theory it would not necessarily follow that you yourself would be much affected.

  20. And I should say, Lawford, that he made precious bad reading for a poor old troubled hermit like yourself at the present moment.

  21. Don't flatter yourself you are going to hush up a thing like this for long.

  22. You bound yourself on your solemn promise not to stir till I returned.

  23. Whatever we are agreed about on the whole, you were scarcely yourself last night.

  24. Oh, Sir Clement, were you not yourself unhappy, I know not how I could pardon an artifice that has caused me so much uneasiness!

  25. I need not now, I am sure, enlarge upon your indiscretion and want of thought, in so hastily trusting yourself with a man so little known to you, and whose gaiety and flightiness should have put you on your guard.

  26. Surely you must yourself have some knowledge who he is?

  27. What do you do with yourself this evening?

  28. I wish you'd mind your own affairs, and not trouble yourself about ours.

  29. Good God, my dear Miss Anville, would you trust yourself with a mad woman?

  30. Pray leave me; and pray assure yourself you cannot take any method so successless to show any regard for me, as entering into schemes so frightful to Madame Duval, and so disagreeable to myself.

  31. You know I speak no more than what is truth," said Catharine, "and which you yourself have avouched often.

  32. Do not shame yourself and me by putting it to the combat.

  33. And did not you yourself suspect that he was plotting a transference of his allegiance to England?

  34. Tear yourself from those who find their own way to greatness smoothed by feeding your follies.

  35. And can your modesty and prudence have trifled so much with the delicacy of your sex as to place yourself in such a relation to such a man as this artificer?

  36. Away with you, girl, and let me don my clothes; and prepare yourself to obey me in what I may have to recommend for your safety.

  37. Ye need not hurry yourself for that, Simon Glover," quoth the obdurate old woman; "the best and the worst of it may be tauld before you could hobble over your door stane.

  38. In this age of battle, father, you have yourself been a combatant?

  39. Never point it at yourself or anyone else.

  40. The snow piles up against the far side of the sled, forming a solid windbreak, and you have yourself a cozy little tent.

  41. The principal officers were appointed on your recommendation and with your concurrence, and the plan of operations which is now being followed is largely the one recommended by yourself at a conference of officers.

  42. The first great work is that yourself may to yourself be true.

  43. Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

  44. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

  45. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  46. There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread.

  47. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.

  48. But you frightened me, laughing all by yourself that way.

  49. And you couldn't go and fling yourself on the neck of as perfidious a person as that.

  50. You can do a great deal with yourself in a week if you bully hard.

  51. Don't you ever have thoughts all by yourself that you laugh over, when you're alone?

  52. What I've seen of you has either been when you've been repressing yourself so hard that I could see the emotions bubble underneath, or when you'd stopped repressing, and were telling me what you really thought of me.

  53. Still, if you couldn't remember what your hotel was yourself it was only sensible to ask guidance on the question.

  54. Don't you get it that if you leave she can explain it some way or other--that all you're doing by staying is ruining yourself and Elinor for a point of honor that hasn't any honor to it?

  55. Also, if you happened to be of a certain analytic temperament you could see what was happening to yourself all the while quite plainly--oh, much too plainly!

  56. Then the queen said, "Go back to your city, and having placed the cooking utensils near the hearth, hide yourself and stay in the house.

  57. Then Pascal, horrified at this form of deception, cried out to the evil one, "You ravening wolf, how dare you take upon yourself the clothing of a lamb?

  58. You wrestle against a powerful and a cruel enemy, and you need great and powerful aid; but you have read your Bible Edith, and again and again has Emilie said to you, "of yourself you can do nothing.

  59. If you worry yourself in this way you will be quite ill.

  60. Perhaps you will make it yourself then," was the gracious rejoinder.

  61. I hope you will know him for yourself some day," the detective slyly added.

  62. I who have loved no woman before you, will have such a hand in your fate that you will never be able to separate yourself from the influence I shall exert over you.

  63. Lucetta, you must control yourself or leave me to face these unwelcome visitors alone.

  64. Nothing threatens our guest, nor need you have the least concern for yourself or us, whether the night passes in quiet or whether it is broken by unaccountable sounds.

  65. If danger comes to you, and you find yourself in a condition of real peril, blow once shrilly on the whistle I inclose with this.

  66. Of the few words I overheard, one was uttered in reference to yourself by Miss Knollys.

  67. Madam," said he, and I must own I thought his conduct perfect, "had I not been as completely deceived as yourself I might find words of criticism for this possibly unprofessional partiality.

  68. I am sorry you should have thought it necessary to disturb yourself on my account last night.

  69. The answer came readily enough: "Mount the stairs and feel for yourself whether there is a lock there.

  70. I wonder--pardon me the indiscretion--that you could bring yourself to enter so ill-reputed a neighborhood.

  71. Whatever you may hear--if you hear anything--will have no reference to yourself and need not disturb you.

  72. See, you ought to be lying on the couch instead of trying to drag yourself out to the stables.

  73. You have set yourself a task beyond your strength.

  74. You are too lazy to try to be a credit to yourself, but at least you can exert yourself to prevent Gussie's disgracing us.

  75. Now you get those tears dried, and fix yourself up, and I'll go down and get the tickets.

  76. Eat your bun, and don't make yourself busy about other people's affairs.

  77. Well, you try calling yourself Augustus Mannering-Phipps over here, and see how it strikes you.

  78. Think I'm going to let you get yourself in trouble like that, to get me out of a fix?

  79. I've noticed a slight tendency in you to let yourself get rather morbid about it.

  80. My experience is that when Aunt Agatha wants you to do a thing you do it, or else you find yourself wondering why those fellows in the olden days made such a fuss when they had trouble with the Spanish Inquisition.

  81. I don't know what it is about America, but the broad fact is that it's not a place where you can call yourself Augustus Mannering-Phipps.

  82. But, take it from me, if you don't do something within two weeks to make yourself solid with the adults, you can make your will.

  83. If she is but half as good as yourself we will welcome her," answered those to whom she spoke.

  84. I think I can defend myself to the satisfaction of both yourself and the gardener; and if you will listen to me this evening, as I cannot spare any of the moments of the day, I will tell you what labor occupies so much of my time.

  85. Do not leave yourself in a state of pain but of enjoyment.

  86. Now you all just draw up chairs and take yourself some pancakes," Bex's mother invited.

  87. Think of walking a few steps forward then, after parting the bushes, to find yourself looking down upon a--a sort of paradise.

  88. The baronet was thinking: "For your sister exposed, you display more agitation than for yourself insulted.

  89. For heaven's sake, command yourself as we have done--painfully indeed!

  90. You won't allow yourself to imagine, then, that he has spoken false to you?

  91. No one but yourself is aware that Lieutenant Pole does me the honour to liken me to the good old gentleman who accompanied Telemachus in his voyages, and chooses me from among the handmaidens of earth.

  92. Braintop confirmed the words of the letter: and then Adela said--"You will do us the favour to stay and amuse yourself here.

  93. Take the gun, go forth and shoot a deer; bring the venison and lay it before the widow of Le Loup Cervier, feed her children; call yourself her husband.

  94. Get yourself ready, Hetty, and go into the canoe, for I've a few parting words to say to your sister, which can do you no good.

  95. Take care of yourself in the woods, and don't stop once, 'til you reach the garrison.

  96. Answer me one thing, child; do you believe yourself to have mind enough to become a wife, and a mother?

  97. Well then, Delaware, go yourself if you're so tender of your squaw," put in the unceremonious Hurry.

  98. No man, brother or stranger, would stand by and see as fair a gal as yourself hunted down, without saying a word in her behalf.

  99. Think yourself well off, Mingo, if you make a much worse trade.

  100. No man can wish for a wife who does not prefer him to all other men, and when I tell you this frankly, I suppose you yourself will thank me for my sincerity.

  101. This we may certainly do provided you will stay with us, instead of going back and giving yourself up a prisoner, again, as you now seem determined on.

  102. Promise me one thing, at least, and that is, not to trust yourself among the savages, or to do anything more than to save the girl.

  103. Now tell them all this plainly, Hist, and fear nothing for yourself or me.

  104. So just canoe yourself off into the middle of the lake, and by the time you get back there'll be movements in that camp!

  105. My dear sir, you are working yourself into a dreadful state.

  106. You seem to be muttering to yourself the greater part of the time.

  107. Well, you'll have a chance to talk to yourself and Tomlinson before long.

  108. If you do not immediately tell us where she is, you will find yourself in serious trouble.

  109. The Northern papers would copy, and you would find yourself the butt of ridicule wherever you went.

  110. Take a brace and redeem yourself with the mess and the men," he said, as he finished.

  111. Give yourself to me of your own will and save Marcus.

  112. Once years ago you swore that you would not force yourself upon me against my will.

  113. Moreover, now that he was sure that you were dead, I showed him the little statuette of yourself looking into water, which you gave me.

  114. Julia, do you cloak yourself and go seek that high-priest of yours, Cyril, who also loves this maid.

  115. And do you hold yourself to be bound by this command?

  116. Now, indeed, Marcus, you show yourself a coward.

  117. But if you do not wish it, then I think you would be a fool to put yourself to shame to save Caleb.

  118. Lift one finger against her and I will hale you into the amphitheatre at Rome, there yourself to be slaughtered by gladiators, or to be torn by lions.

  119. Then," said the prosecutor, "you should have reported yourself to Titus upon your arrival in Rome.

  120. If so, you will find yourself in high company.

  121. If this bust were shown in Rome, together with yourself who sat for it, the lady Miriam would find herself famous within a week.

  122. The signatures of Domitian and of yourself as witness seem much alike," he remarked suspiciously.

  123. Had you not better make yourself clear upon the point before we go any further?

  124. Yet you have forced yourself in here I give you till to-morrow morning to be clear of these territories.

  125. He would act far differently: he would probably spare you, provided that you lent yourself to his evil designs.

  126. I believe you have regarded yourself as a mere plaything in my eyes.

  127. I am not going to see you catch yourself with one of the barbed hooks, like those which I shall use.

  128. Mr. McGlashan has told me that you have questions you wish to ask me yourself about what happened in the mountain cabin.

  129. A letter which is only to be given to you, when Mr. Grosse pronounces that you are quite yourself again.

  130. After what you have yourself seen, I leave you to decide whether you will restore your brother to Miss Finch, or not.

  131. Do you think it's wise," I asked, "to be all by yourself at night in such a lonely house as yours?

  132. How can a clever man like you impose on yourself in that way?

  133. You have only to show yourself to make him repent his wickedness to the last day of his life.

  134. Present yourself at the rectory tomorrow," I answered--"and you will see.

  135. Prepare yourself to meet one of the strangest characters you ever set eyes on!

  136. Please don't engage yourself to be married till I come back.

  137. You are not yourself to-day," I said to her.

  138. You must have seen for yourself that The Cross-Hands is a mere beer-shop.

  139. What have you been fretting yourself about since I was last in this house?

  140. Compose yourself for heaven's sake," I said.

  141. Judge for yourself what my hopes were when I first saw your face; and forgive me if I felt my disappointment bitterly, when I found that you had really no news to tell, and when you spoke of Nugent as you did.

  142. Prepare yourself to be startled; prepare yourself to be grieved.

  143. Decide for yourself whether you want Mrs. Finch's letter or not.

  144. Do you mean to tell me that you are deliberately bent on making yourself an object of horror to everybody who sees you?

  145. Nay, we have surely said so; for if you will not answer for yourself I must answer for you.

  146. If you are not able to answer at once, ask yourself whither we go with the sick, and to whom we take them.


  147. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yourself" 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; self; she; them; themselves; they; you; yourself