Selves
[selvz] or [sɛlvz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Self
(n.) pl. of Self.
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Definition
pl. of self.
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Examples
- Our old selves weren't people of fortune; our new selves are; it's a great difference. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Our old selves wouldn't do here, old lady. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They plume them-selves on their gentility there, I can tell you, if that's any satisfaction. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He positively said that it had been known to no being in the world but their two selves. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Recollect we are not our old selves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Come aboard of mine, and see for your own-selves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Besides, everybody has left but our dear stupid selves, who can't settle where to go to. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He had two selves within him apparently, and they must learn to accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We've got no pride, we're all conceit, so conceited in our own papier-mache realised selves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Our old selves would be fit for nothing here but to be robbed and imposed upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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