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Example sentences for "like himself"

  • On the ground stood the usual morning can of milk--evidence that Chilcote was not yet awake or that, like himself, he had no appetite for breakfast.

  • Either, like himself, she was fishing for information, or she was deliberately playing with him.

  • He had used the place for years, but he had used it as he might use a hotel; and whatever of his household gods had come with him remained, like himself, on sufferance.

  • The thief thinks that all are like himself.

  • There he found so many people, among them officers who, like himself, had come in civilian clothes, that he had difficulty in getting a dinner.

  • Toto was, like himself, conspicuous, and he felt forced during the daytime to leave him locked up in the house.

  • Francois was enchanted with this ingenious and unprejudiced companion, who had, like himself, a sense of the laughable aspects of life.

  • Here was a human being, like himself a thief, who was sacrificing something for another.

  • Two days later he made another and rather disconcerting discovery, which set him wondering afresh as to the real nature of the woman who, like himself, had been the victim of a strangely vindictive fate.

  • Like himself, Cheniston had altered since that day in India.

  • After a time he became aware of a young woman leaning, like himself, against the rail a few feet distant.

  • Then he remembered that, like himself, Rutherford must have seen thousands upon thousands of horribly mutilated men.

  • He often wondered about these people, buried, like himself, in this snow-blanketed and mountain-ringed remoteness.

  • At the inner angle of the mound he met the sisters, walking along the parapet in search, like himself, of air and relief from confinement.

  • The native, like himself, seemed occupied in considering the low dwellings of the village, and the stolen movements of its inhabitants.

  • When he found his friend met with a favorable reception, he bestowed on him the command of twenty men, like himself, active, skilful, and resolute.

  • In spite of himself Christophe was fond of the pleasant mortal who, like himself, and more than himself, resembled their father Melchior in feature.

  • But Louisa, like himself, exhausted herself during the day, and in the evening she was worn out and hardly spoke, and after dinner used to sleep in her chair over her darning.

  • Although, like himself, she was only a bird of passage on Nepenthe, she had succeeded in impressing her personality upon those rather scantily furnished rooms and filling them with an atmosphere of England.

  • He respected a man who, like himself, could work in the grand style.

  • Like himself, Mr. Muhlen had never before set foot on the place.

  • He was always wavering between the two in an attitude of suburban defiance, reconciling what is irreconcilable by extracting funny analogies all round for the edification of "nice people" like himself.

  • He saw in him one who, like himself, was likely to make his way by merit and force of character, and he asked him many questions as to his past history and the various services in which he had been engaged.

  • Presently he saw a colonel who, like himself, was spending the winter in Paris, and who frequently attended the cardinal's levees.

  • The good man would probably have brought me up to be, like himself, a minister, and I am afraid I should have made a very poor one.

  • Like himself, she had been drawn by the magic of the storm.

  • He was an artist, and the sketches he made were numerous and--like himself--full of decision.

  • It is sure to be strikingly original--like himself.

  • And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be.

  • He was good, and therefore not jealous, and being free from jealousy he desired that all things should be like himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dark horse; holy souls; leaves usually; legally binding; like all; like animals; like being; like character; like himself; like little; like most; like others; like quantity; like scales; like substance; like the; like thee; like this; like those; like true; like water; liked best; national security; neither male nor female; never seems; pressed forward