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Example sentences for "establish himself"

  • The servant, upon attaining his freedom, usually remained in the colony and sought to establish himself there.

  • The poor man who came to her shores, whether under terms of indenture or as a freeman, found it quite possible to establish himself as a person of some property and consideration.

  • If the returns from his labor greatly exceeded his expenses, his savings would make it possible for him to establish himself firmly in the class of the colonial yeomanry.

  • Because the servant who had completed his term was free to follow his own bent, we have no right to assume that he sought at once to establish himself as an independent proprietor.

  • He should have been forbidden to establish himself in Kingsmill!

  • To wait, to establish himself in the confidence of this family, to make sure his progress step by step, that was the course indicated from the first by his calm reason.

  • He resented profoundly her supposition (natural enough) that his chief aim was to establish himself in a self-supporting career.

  • Thereupon Hansen sent to San Francisco for the outfit that enabled him to establish himself.

  • He commissioned many of the stage-drivers to work up business for him on the Butterfield Route; and as his charges were enormous, he was enabled, within three or four years, to establish himself in New York.

  • In 1912 he left them to establish himself in business in Montreal as a member of the present firm of Pigeon, Pigeon & Davis.

  • Following his return to Montreal he sought to establish himself in the tailoring business, which he had followed during his sojourn in the United States.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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