Ourselves

Examples

• And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was almost dark before we found ourselves in Pall Mall, at the rooms of Mr. Melas. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There is one advantage about this horrid place, he said; we have got it all to ourselves. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Now, can we find justice without troubling ourselves about temperance? Plato. The Republic.
• We must then pay the salaries in order to enrich ourselves with these places. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But we want to delude ourselves that love is the root. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These methods of thinking, and of expressing ourselves, are not of so little consequence as they may appear at first sight. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Between ourselves, what little I have is in that box, so you can understand what it means to me when unknown people force themselves into my rooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In short, we quite enjoyed ourselves. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He at length proposed to me travelling all over Europe together, supporting ourselves everywhere by working at our business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• These qualities, then, are, properly speaking, the causes of our vanity, by means of their relation to ourselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But, like ourselves, the rebels had become experts in repairing such damage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These people were people like ourselves, with brains as busy and moody and inconsistent, and with even less training and discipline. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He says: In one sense it knows more than we know ourselves, for it retains the memory of many things which we forget, even though we have said them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• By the same quality of the mind we are seduced into a good opinion of ourselves, and of all objects, that belong to us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We shouldn't enjoy ourselves half so much as we do now. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We arrived at Milan, and stationed ourselves in the Vice-Roy's palace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was midday when we found ourselves at the scene of the tragedy, and, under my companion's guidance, we made our way at once to Hudson Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• For among ourselves, too, there have been two sorts of Politicians or Statesmen, whose eyesight has become disordered in two different ways. Plato. The Republic.
• It was time for us to bestir ourselves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Without encroaching on forbidden ground, we may venture to say that there can be no doubt between ourselves of that fact. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We--we were only cooling ourselves,' stammered Bumble, looking apprehensively about him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Missis is gone to spend the afternoon; so come into my little room, and we'll have the time all to ourselves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In our night-time, there's always the electricity switched on, we watch ourselves, we get it all in the head, really. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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