Oneself
[wʌn'self] or [wʌn'sɛlf]
Definition
(pron.) A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self.
Editor: Susanna
Examples
- It was something beyond love, such a gladness of having surpassed oneself, of having transcended the old existence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One must preserve oneself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One should please oneself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To forget oneself in greater interests is to escape from a prison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One might abandon oneself utterly to the MOMENTS, but not to any other being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I think it is much better to be really patrician, and to do nothing but just be oneself, like a walking flower. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I do think of myself; but must one for ever think only of oneself? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She said that nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I loved some one it would take it all away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Best strive with oneself only, not with the universe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Setting up for oneself ceased to be a normal hope for an artisan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One must commit oneself to a conjunction with the other--for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One feels so awfully sold, oneself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is certainly best not to compromise oneself by any concealment. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How fine to have entered the counting-house _toute éperdue_, and to have found oneself in presence of Messrs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Syria is still so rich in ruins and remains of the period that it is not difficult to picture to oneself the nature of its civilization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Some luxuries that one permits oneself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Susanna