Themselves

Examples

• Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Seizing the professor by the arm, Mr. Philander set off in the direction that would put the greatest distance between themselves and the lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But those who like Peter Featherstone never had a copy of themselves demanded, are the very last to wait for such a request either in prose or verse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Selden followed her, and still without speaking they seated themselves on a bench beside the fountain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Men find themselves a part of Merry England or Holy Russia; they grow up into these devotions; they accept them as a part of their nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No one but themselves ever did know, I believe. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Because he _was_ a kind master; I'll say that of him, any way;--and my mistress was kind; but they couldn't help themselves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• For the time paganism was revived in their hearts, the pride of life was all in all, and they adored none other than themselves. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They thought much more of alighting at the convent door, and warming themselves at the convent fire. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So far as I could understand, they rarely presented themselves at all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It's humane too, gen'l'men, acause, even if they've stuck in the chimbley, roasting their feet makes 'em struggle to hextricate theirselves. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Somehow I never could see no kind o' critter a strivin' and pantin', and trying to clar theirselves, with the dogs arter 'em and go agin 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Edited by Cathryn