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Example sentences for "allow himself"

  • Happily the author has made himself too well known by his other works, for any Catholic to allow himself to be deceived by his insidious writings.

  • He named twelve judges, choosing the men who were the most attached to himself; and until the authority of the new magistrates had been acknowledged, he took the precaution not to allow himself to be seen by any body.

  • I wished to secure a portrait of him, but such was his modesty and humility that I feared to ask him to allow himself to be painted.

  • The prisoners, who had become intimate with Lauzun, persuaded him to allow himself to be drawn up through their hole, in order to see Fouquet in their dungeon.

  • But the negotiation nearly fell through, because, one day, Derues so far forgot his usual prudence and dissimulation as to allow himself to make the observation recorded above to his mistress.

  • So he had strength of mind to move away from the table, and to allow himself to be purred over by one of the trio of charmers who had been asked for his benefit--but rage mounted in his breast.

  • I knew he was in love with me, so this may have been wrong, but since he was weak enough to allow himself to feel in that way for me knowing he was married, he must pay the price in pain, not I.

  • However, he was too old a hand at dalliance with women to allow himself to stay beside her for a moment after he felt this.

  • He began to allow himself to take in details.

  • Faddle would carry the letter, no doubt, or allow himself to be named as a proposed second.

  • It was not safe for any leader of the Republican armies to allow himself to be defeated.

  • Should he allow himself to be placed at the head of the obnoxious, utterly-defeated Legitimist party, as regent during the minority of the Duke of Bordeaux?

  • Should he allow himself to be made king by the bankers in Paris?

  • Will he allow himself to be carried off like that?

  • He received this homage in an apparently natural way, as if he regarded it as sincere; but he determined not to allow himself to be taken in by any such arts.

  • When it came to the point, he would be man enough not to allow himself to be cheated.

  • On the evening of the day he had taken his degree, his mother urged him to allow himself a few days' recreation.

  • Charley was not the fellow to allow himself to be put down, even by feminine raillery; so he plucked up his spirit, sad as he was at heart, and replied to them all en masse.

  • He had no wish to triumph over Harry, but he had an object to pursue, and he was not the man to allow himself to be diverted from it by any one's caprice.

  • The king sends word to the earl to come to him, and when they met the king forced the earl to allow himself also to be baptized.

  • Then Eyvind was brought up to a conference with the king, who asked him to allow himself to be baptized, like other people; but Eyvind decidedly answered he would not.

  • She knew of course that the King would not allow himself to be put off with vague promises.

  • But Gaston's frame of mind was far too grave, his purpose far too important, to allow himself to be led into delaying business with Captain Barre a moment longer than was necessary.

  • But on her behalf he was bound to prevent this publicity if it could be prevented;--and he was bound also, for her sake, to allow himself to be called Finn by this most obnoxious editor.

  • Should he go at once to his own chamber,--so as to show himself first when dressed for dinner, or should he allow himself to be taken into any of the morning rooms in which the other guests would be congregated?

  • But a journalist, with the tact and experience of Mr. Quintus Slide, knew his business too well to allow himself to be harassed by any such small stratagem as that.


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