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Example sentences for "confine myself"

  • I confine myself to the official words and acts of the senator, and rely upon them to show that he, and not Mr. Polk, is the author of this calamity.

  • As I propose to confine myself to the constitutional question solely, I hope I shall be allowed to take a little broader range on this point, than has been taken by the gentlemen who have preceded me.

  • I confine myself to an examination of this resolution, particularly of the first branch of it.

  • In the course of the few observations to which I intend to confine myself, it shall be my endeavor to exercise that indulgence towards others which has been extended to me.

  • I shall, however, confine myself to a few examples, and select such as are most immediately connected with our subject, or seem likely to lead to the most important results.

  • Therefore I confine myself to such personal incidents as came under my own observation.

  • I confine myself mainly to those within my knowledge.

  • Of letters on public affairs I confine myself to three instances.

  • Miss Murdstone cast down her eyes, shook her head as if protesting against this unseemly interruption, and with frowning dignity resumed: 'Since I am to confine myself to facts, I will state them as dryly as I can.

  • You know as well as I do that your cousin Maldon would be dragged at the heels of any number of wild horses--why should I confine myself to four!

  • I confine myself to these general examples, which are sufficient to give an idea of this kind of operations; a whole volume would not serve to explain every possible case.

  • From all these difficulties, I have been hitherto obliged to confine myself to experiments upon very small quantities of alkohol, or at least to combustions made in open vessels, such as that represented in Pl.

  • As distillation has two distinct objects to accomplish, it is divisible into simple and compound; and, in this section, I mean to confine myself entirely to the former.

  • I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the question of the gentleman.

  • As far as I am concerned, I have no longer any political opinions; let all me be rich, that is to say, mirthful, and I confine myself to that.

  • You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine myself to combating your arguments.

  • My talent was that of telling men useful but severe truths with energy and courage; to this it was necessary to confine myself.

  • As I confine myself to indicating the results of my personal experience, it is perhaps enough to say once more that the methods I recommend seem good to me.

  • I confine myself to recording without trying to explain these facts.

  • I confine myself to stating them without forming any hypotheses.

  • Among the palms most abundant at Java, I confine myself to naming the Borrassus, the Corypha, and the Areca.

  • I must, therefore, confine myself to a rapid survey of the principal botanical features of the countries whose general features and physical aspect I have sketched in the preceding chapters.

  • As I wish to confine myself in this chapter to the primary point of the plain existence of sanity and insanity, I will not be led along any of the attractive paths that open here.

  • I confine myself here to remarking that I do not like it.

  • Here I confine myself to a sort of summary.

  • In this criticism, which I make with sincere sorrow, I confine myself to the order.

  • I confine myself to the simple question as to the duty of inquiry at the present stage of proceedings.

  • As their habits are known to me only by analogy, I confine myself to mentioning them.

  • I confine myself to calling her the Mantis-killing Tachytes and leave to the specialists the task of adorning her with a Latin name, if it be really the fact that the Wasp is not yet catalogued.

  • To ensure that it shall not double up and crush the grub, I confine myself to reducing it to helplessness, leaving it otherwise just as I extracted it from its burrow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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