Itself

Examples

• Captain Lydgate's stupidity was delicately scented, carried itself with style, talked with a good accent, and was closely related to Sir Godwin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is sufficient if every thing be compleat in the object itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She had discovered something, something more than wonderful, more wonderful than life itself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The power of admonition which had begun to stir in Mrs. Garth had not yet discharged itself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I opened the door; and at first looked down, to my amazement, on nothing but a great umbrella that appeared to be walking about of itself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Life, through mankind, grew thereafter more and more distinctly conscious of itself and its world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But, she had scarcely thought more of separating them into units, than of separating the sea itself into its component drops. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The marriage is no misfortune in itself, she retorted with some little petulance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In either case the distance through which the prongs move is very small and the period is very short, so that the eye can seldom detect the movement itself. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This happens whenever information about the world is made an end in itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was as if the eager current of her being had been checked by a sudden obstacle which drove it back upon itself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But even thus early the stronger love of mechanical processes and of probing natural forces manifested itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To be sure, language itself may be regarded as image ry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Whenever I fell into a thoughtful state, this subject was sure to present itself, and all my uneasiness was sure to be redoubled. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They are anticipations of some continuity or connection of an activity and a consequence which has not as yet shown itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Some fanatics among them, to be sure, held that one book, the Koran, was of itself sufficient to insure the well-being of the whole human race, but happily a more enlightened view prevailed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These two years, said he, will pass swiftly, and it will be the last delay that will oppose itself to your happiness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If the sea ever gives up its dead, as books say it will, it will keep its gold and silver to itself, and that trash among it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The case, however, is different when an animal, during any part of its embryonic career, is active, and has to provide for itself. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He had determined to wait till the chance presented itself naturally; and here it was, and here he was on the doorstep. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I am so much attached to you that I may confide in you, my dear, as a third party wholly disinterested, that he is fickleness itself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Presently, the chateau began to make itself strangely visible by some light of its own, as though it were growing luminous. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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