Use the word himself in a sentence

Similar words: by himself, themselves, self-, itself, of itself, in itself, by itself, by yourself. Meaning: [hɪmˈself]  pron.1. an emphatic appositive of him or he: He himself spoke to the men. 2. a reflexive form of him: He cut himself. 3. (used in absolute constructions): Himself the soul of honor, he included many rascals among his intimates. 4. (used as the object of a preposition or as the direct or indirect object of a verb): The old car had room only for himself and three others. 5. (used in comparisons after as or than): His wife is as stingy as himself. 6. his normal or customary self: He is himself again. 7. Irish Eng. a man of importance, esp. the master of the house: Himself will be wanting an early dinner.. 

Sentences starting with himself

• Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
• Himself one of the most renowned, acute and learned students and interpreters of the Bible, he was perfectly familiar with the critical works the last five years have brought to light in the domain of Old Testament criticism. [10]
• Himself his only parallel! [5]
• Himself lived more luxuriously. [11]

Sentences ending with himself

• Dorothea received the young man with warm sympathy; she had heard that his father had fallen in the fight, and how nobly he too had distinguished himself. [10]
• He desires that you, who wish the Territories to remain free, should believe that he stands by that position; but he does not say it himself. [7]
• Suppose I told you that Austen Vane has avoided me, that he would not utter a word against you or in favour of himself? [9]
• There it was, you see—we couldn’t tell what Satan didn’t want told; he had said so himself. [5]
• He will feed you bounteously—if—if there is any left after he shall have helped himself. [7]
• A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself. [6]
• Then Hathi was wroth, and said he would have the truth, if he had to go and fetch it himself. [5]
• He’s own hand-writing, write by himself! [5]
• Cox answered he would starve…. then told him he would only be killing himself. [5]
• By this he would serve the enemy more effectively than the enemy is able to serve himself. [7]

Short sentences using himself

• So he argued with himself. [11]
• Tom himself was visibly embarrassed. [9]
• He drew himself up. [11]
• He got it up himself. [7]
• Whereupon Mr. Redbrook unburdened himself. [9]
• He pulled himself together, shuddering. [11]
• He addressed himself to them. [11]
• Jackson Introducing Himself to Lee. [5]
• So he said to himself. [11]
• Irving himself shared this opinion. [4]

Sentences containing himself two or more times

• As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
• He wandered on without thinking; the street in which he presently found himself must no doubt lead to the sea, and if he could once find himself on the shore he could not fail to make his way to Lochias. [10]
• He was vexed with himself, that he could feel so little anger against a criminal, whose guilt was deserving of death, and reproached himself for lukewarmness. [10]
• The architect himself wished to take advantage of this time to refresh himself by a short sleep, for the exertions of the morrow, but between this intention and its fulfilment an obstacle was interposed, the preposterous dimensions namely of his guest. [10]
• But kill Gabord, who had put himself in danger to serve me, who himself had kept the chains from off my ankles and body, whose own life depended upon my security—«Come, come, Robert Moray,» said I, «what relish have you for that? [11]
• No one knows whether Uncle Jim could hear the cries from the torture- chamber, but, after standing for a time mumbling to himself, he wrapped himself in a heavy coat, tied a muffler about his face, and went out. [11]
• He raised himself up, leaning on the arms of the great chair, so high that we were filled with amazement, and he gazed about him with his glassy eyes and then said, still holding himself up: «That, that. [10]
• Thus, to sum up, he bought himself free of a sharp pain in his heart, he bought himself free of the tortures of a waiting conscience, he bought a whole night’s sleep—all for twenty-five cents! [5]
• It follows, that, until a man can be found who knows himself as his Maker knows him, or who sees himself as others see him, there must be at least six persons engaged in every dialogue between two. [6]
• Master Peter himself, under pretence of exercising himself in the Italian tongue, would often wait upon Dame Giovanna. [10]

More example sentences with the word himself in them

• If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
• He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
• Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
• But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.—[This is probably a misprint.—M. [5]
• He commanded the youth to betake himself to the camp. [5]
• When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
• Do you adapt yourself and your surroundings to him, or insist that he shall adapt himself to you? [4]
• The Lord took your father to himself as a martyr; your mother has dedicated herself to Heaven. [10]
• His worst enemy, your brother, would probably sacrifice himself for his welfare sooner than I. [10]
• No one but your brother himself can possibly explain the strange way in which he disappeared. [10]
• All respect to your Boy Eating Figs, in whose presence you would feel the pleasure he himself enjoyed while consuming the sweet fruit. [10]
• I don’t want your book; my shelves are full of books now,» though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
• Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
• Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
• But the sturdy young fellow knew how to defend his liberty, and had already released himself from his assailant when other servants grasped him. [10]
• Mr. Carvel is young and, besides, is not himself with liquor. [9]
• He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he’s such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
• Let me tell you that the President of the United States himself is liable to impeachment, and bound to disprove any charge he may be accused of. [9]
• But your lover—though you should weep for sorrow till your eyes are red—» «I would denounce the traitor, if he made himself worthy of death,» Ledscha passionately interrupted, with flashing eyes. [10]
• And how happy you ought to be with him!—a man who knows what is in books, and who has seen for himself, what is in men. [6]
• You remember, do you not, that the hero of that book sacrifices himself for the lady who adores him, but whom he has ceased to adore? [9]
• I could like you as well as I liked Harris himself, sir. [5]
• Holgate, the young Yorkshire engineer, pulled himself up to the deck two steps of the ladder at a time. [11]
• Arriving in New York, November 19, 1867, Mark Twain found himself no longer unknown to the metropolis, or to any portion of America. [5]
• Caracalla had not yet shown himself to the people. [10]
• All that might yet be lacking to the fitting of the restored palace Hadrian himself wished to select and procure and in this occupation so agreeable to his tastes, Gabinius, the curiosity-dealer, was to lend him a helping hand. [10]
• He remembered those years of superfluity with contempt, and as he puffed and panted on his way through the dust, he felt himself swell with satisfaction. [10]
• And not many years after the time of which I now write Lord Carlisle was paying fifteen hundred a year on the sum he had loaned him, cheerfully denying himself the pleasures of London as a consequence. [9]
• If in seven years after marriage a man could buy a mattress and a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as a lord. [4]
• Not that Tom yearned for the slipper; but he regarded its occasional applications as being as inevitable as changes in the weather; lying did not come easily to him, and left to himself he much preferred to confess and have the matter over with. [9]
• Above this Damour wrote for himself an order upon the chamberlain of Bercy to enter upon Philip’s private apartments in the castle; and thither he was fleeing as Philip lay dying in the dark room of the house in the Rue de Vaugirard. [11]
• That was very wrong, and when he stretched himself out to sleep, the image of the valiant smith stood with tangible distinctness before his soul. [10]
• But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
• And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? [14]
• Milton could not write to suit himself, except from the autumnal to the vernal equinox. [6]
• With one frantic wrench he freed himself, and ran down Locust Street. [9]
• He wandered on, wounded and indignant, and was resolved to put himself in the way of like treatment no more. [5]
• At night Tom would suffer none to watch save Weldon and himself, not trusting Riley or Cutcheon. [9]
• He said he would sleep himself fresh, and then see what he could do with this riddle. [5]
• Smith said he would sell $200 or $300 worth himself. [5]
• He fancied they would see from his looks that he was already on the way to a great crime, and hid himself behind the projecting gate of a large Egyptian house. [10]
• Hang it, he would say to himself, she is nothing but pure intellect anyway. [5]
• He thought he would satisfy himself on that point; so he searched around till he found a small sandy spot with a little funnel-shaped depression in it. [5]
• For myself, I would rather have seen Lamb himself once, than to have lived with Judas. [4]
• Stephen Brice, who would not lie to others, lied to himself. [9]
• Of course he would not come himself, he must not: he had promised her. [11]
• That gentleman, however, would not be talked to, but came running over to Jethro and seized his hand, leaving Mr. Worthington to walk on by himself. [9]
• She knew he would never pull himself together now. [11]
• Between ourselves, he would like to be appointed regent of Persia while the king is away at the Massagetan war, and would therefore give a great deal to connect himself by marriage in some way or other with the Archemenidae. [10]
• Besides, her father would last forever, if he was left to himself. [6]
• This climbing-party he would himself lead, accompanied by his brother Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and a handful of agile woodsmen. [11]
• No other man would have undertaken so Quixotic an enterprise, none would have exposed himself so recklessly to the dreadful accidents of circumstance. [11]
• For me he would have put himself out not an inch had he not understood that my support came from those quarters. [9]
• True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [10]
• A wiser person would have kept such a thing discreetly to himself, but with this harmless creature everything comes out. [5]
• The recruiter himself would have got off scot-free had not an arrow pinned one of his fingers to the loom of the steering-oar just as they were getting off. [5]
• Ay, and he would have come if he had not still felt some love for me, if he had not misdoubted himself, and feared that the dying woman might once more light up the fire he had so carefully smothered and crushed out. [10]
• What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]
• Such a woman would have attracted Harry at any time, but only a woman with a cool brain and exquisite art could have made him lose his head in this way; for Harry thought himself a man of the world. [5]
• After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
• How admiringly they would gaze up at him in his high seat as he gloved himself with lingering deliberation, while some happy hostler held the bunch of reins aloft, and waited patiently for him to take it! [5]
• And how they would fly around when he wanted a basin of water, a gourd of the same, or a light for his pipe!—but they would instantly insult a passenger if he so far forgot himself as to crave a favor at their hands. [5]
• The reader who would finish this Essay, which I suspect to belong to an early period of Emerson’s development, must be prepared to plunge into mysticism and lose himself at last in an Oriental apologue. [6]
• Even Philip himself would feel the good effects of it; for Harry would have something and Col. [5]
• Whatever a man would do himself, he thinks others are capable of. [10]
• To neglect it would be unjust to himself, and dishonest to his client. [7]
• Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
• But, what was worst of all, he could not regard himself as altogether free from the reproach of having accepted a reward for the service he had so thoughtlessly rendered. [10]
• That is the worst fault in a gentleman, for flattery makes false friends and the flatterer himself false. [11]
• He used to worry himself ill over that. [9]
• Finding the familiar, worn arm of the chair, he seated himself with a heavy sigh. [11]
• Would not the world have a right to say that the only decent thing he could do was to eliminate himself from the equation? [11]
• In it the world has found a solution of the long-mooted problem as to the capability of man to govern himself. [7]
• As the day wore on our numbers increased, we were joined by other lawyers of renown, not the least of whom was Mr. Grolier himself, fresh from his triumph over religious heresy in his Church Convention. [9]
• Some long minutes wore away; at last he thought he perceived that Hermas had raised himself. [10]
• Tom said the words which Hertford put into his mouth from time to time, and tried hard to acquit himself satisfactorily, but he was too new to such things, and too ill at ease to accomplish more than a tolerable success. [5]
• At the first words O’Ryan put a hand on himself and tried to grasp the meaning of it all, but his entrance and the subsequent applause had confused him. [11]
• And how few words in secret had we as yet spoken, how little had we discussed what might befall on the morrow, and how he should demean himself to his mother! [10]
• Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
• It contains a wood-cut of the master and himself seated on a rug in the garden. [5]
• The chief-priest was wont to bear himself stoutly in the field, and now he gives up the command because a dying woman touches his heart. [10]
• Though Thyone might wonder that a man pursued by Nemesis could allow himself to be borne along so thoughtlessly by the stream of pleasure, Daphne certainly did not grudge him the festal season which, when it had passed, could never return to the blind artist. [10]
• Why should this woman have this extraordinary effect of making him dissatisfied with himself? [9]
• With Pfuel was Wolzogen, who expressed Pfuel’s thoughts in a more comprehensible way than Pfuel himself (who was a harsh, bookish theorist, self-confident to the point of despising everyone else) was able to do. [2]
• Here also, as Wolf himself had probably experienced, there had been no lack of inclination toward the Lutheran doctrine. [10]
• Howells mournfully, and without words, hitched himself to Bishop and me and supported us out of the room. [5]
• Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert’s; but Paaker put himself in her way. [10]
• Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. [2]
• Twain if published without his privity, we judged it but fair to submit them to him and give him an opportunity to defend himself. [5]
• He was not without emotions in this, but he held himself firm. [11]
• He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
• If there’s anybody with you, let him keep back—if he shows himself he’ll be shot. [5]
• From the snares with which she was beset the expertest man in the world could not have extricated himself but with difficulty. [5]
• But we knew with what intellectual giants we had to do; no one had needed to tell us that, at least; and when they called me to them I felt as if the king himself had honoured me. [10]
• He went away with vanity flattered by the sense of having been appealed to concerning Margaret, and then he began to chafe at what she had said of Wetmore’s honesty, apropos of her wish that he still had a class himself. [8]
• He carried himself with true appreciation of the incident, acknowledging more by look than by sign this courtesy. [11]
• Mr. Holwell, perishing with thirst, kept himself alive by sucking the perspiration from his sleeves. [5]
• Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
• The King conversed with these —he had made it a point, from the beginning, to instruct himself for the kingly office by questioning prisoners whenever the opportunity offered —and the tale of their woes wrung his heart. [5]
• He was cross with the stupid old man (as he called Rostov), who had made him stay by assuring him that some necessary documents had not yet arrived from town, and he was vexed with himself for having stayed. [2]

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