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Example sentences for "found himself"

  • He found himself noticing a person whom he had not noticed before--a young lady, who was seated in a low portable chair, some dozen yards off, with her eyes bent upon a book.

  • He found himself, however, little disposed to avail himself of these resources, and he treated himself to no pleasures but those of memory and expectation.

  • He knocked about, as he would have said, for half the night--not because he was delighted at having won ten thousand francs, but rather because all of a sudden he found himself disgusted at the manner in which he had spent the evening.

  • In as short a time as possible he found himself in Gordon's sitting-room at the Hotel Middlesex.

  • Wilkie had prepared his story in advance, a touching and witty narrative; but when the moment came to begin it, he found himself unable to speak.

  • However, as he found himself in such a plight and could not afford to let any chance escape, he repaired merely for form's sake to the Vantrasson establishment.

  • At evening he found himself at the Boulevard and Sixty-seventh Street, where he finally turned his face Bowery-ward.

  • At breakfast he found himself without an appetite.

  • Several times he found himself staring at an item, but thinking of something else.

  • Next he twisted the steel door from its hinges, and creeping along the short passage, found himself in the third cave.

  • Along the corridor he crept until, turning a corner, he found himself in a large domed cavern that was empty and deserted.

  • On the third morning after leaving Silver Cup the riders were working slowly along the slope of Coconina; and Hare having driven down a bunch of cattle, found himself on an open ridge near the temporary camp.

  • At the bottom he found himself in a wonderful lane with an almost level floor; here flowed a shallow stream bordered by green willows.

  • Hare found himself flushing and thrilling, found himself unable to control a painful binding in his throat.

  • Nevertheless, he found himself clinging to the hope of some reply as to his one last chance of redemption.

  • It was not till now, when he found himself actually on the spot of his enthusiasm, that Jude perceived how far away from the object of that enthusiasm he really was.

  • Amazed, embarrassed, and irresolute He found himself incapable of pronouncing a syllable, and remained in silence gazing upon Matilda: This gave her opportunity to continue her explanation as follows.

  • She spoke no longer to insinuate, but command: He found himself unable to cope with her in argument, and was unwillingly obliged to confess the superiority of her judgment.

  • He found himself so perfectly recovered, that when Father Pablos visited him again at night, He entreated permission to quit his chamber on the day following.

  • Carried away by his eagerness to clear up this mystery, and to penetrate into which He was impelled by a movement secret and unaccountable, Lorenzo heeded not this circumstance till He found himself in total solitude.

  • They disappeared, and He found himself in total darkness.

  • Finally he found himself at the box-office wicket.

  • Rather than hurt her he found himself forced to the use of anaesthesia, which he hated.

  • At night he lay awake for hours under the thick blankets of the bed-lounge, staring upward into the darkness, tormented with the idea of her, exasperated at the delicate, subtle mesh in which he found himself entangled.

  • What miserable complication was this in which he found himself involved?

  • He found himself not in the least confused by it, or frightened.

  • Turning, he found himself face to face with two smiling people, into whose eyes he stared for an instant in dumfounded blankness.

  • The room in which he found himself was so dark at first that it yielded little to the eye, and that little seemed altogether beyond his comprehension.

  • He found himself discovering a new droll aspect in men and things; his phraseology took on a dryly playful form, fittingly to present conceits which danced up, unabashed, quite into the presence of lofty and majestic truths.

  • He found himself face to face with a sergeant commanding a watch-patrol.

  • He found himself in a little floor-clothed room, with a high desk railed off in one corner, behind which sat a lean youth with cunning eyes and a protruding chin, whose performances in capital-text darkened the window.

  • He had lapsed into the condition in which he found himself, as many a man lapses into many a condition, without perceiving the accumulative power of its separate circumstances.

  • Even Eugene standing in a window, moodily swinging the tassel of a blind, gives it a smarter jerk now, as if he found himself in better case.

  • He had a dim memory of wandering through a labyrinth of sordid houses, of being lost in a giant web of sombre streets, and it was bright dawn when he found himself at last in Piccadilly Circus.

  • After a time he found himself in front of Marylebone Church.

  • Hughie, as he found himself a comfortable seat on a divan.

  • By living consistently beyond his means he found himself at length entirely dependent on his professional earnings.

  • Peace, in a top hat and grey ulster, showed them the sights of London, always inquiring politely of a policeman if he found himself in any difficulty.

  • Even if he succeeded in this mission enterprise, he found himself asking, what would he be but just a little West-end Mahomet?

  • He found himself composing a peculiar speech to her, very frank and revealing, and one that he felt would dominate her thoughts.

  • The only opposition, indeed, came from within, from a sense of dreamlike incongruity between the place and the occasion and the things that he found himself delivering.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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