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Example sentences for "making himself"

  • Not by making himself anything: but he may by letting God make him something.

  • Ah, my friends, do not forget what I said just now; that a man could not become happy by making himself anything.

  • His enterprise met with great success; then, animated with the hope of making himself a name, he ventured to propose marriage with the younger of the French women.

  • And all this time, Harold noticed that his father was making himself interesting to Beatrice Avon.

  • He also noticed that his father was seated by the side of Beatrice Avon and that he was succeeding in making himself interesting to her.

  • He knew that his father generally succeeded in making himself interesting to women.

  • He began by making himself esteemed, and ends by making himself feared.

  • If it was a question of making himself acceptable to a woman--say a woman like Evelyn--was it not belittling to his own nature to plan to win her by what he could make rather than by what he was?

  • He had elected to use his little patrimony in making himself instead of in making money--if merely following his inclination could be called an election.

  • Nor is the pleasure of it altogether destroyed for the boy by the consideration that he is making himself useful in obtaining supplies for the winter household.

  • He relates in this volume the story of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the years following, and of the settlement of the Somers Isles, making himself appear as a kind of Providence over the New World.

  • It's not every fellow who would be strapping away at those horses, instead of making himself at home in the back kitchen.

  • This circumstance induced Andrea Strozzi to think of making himself sovereign of the city.

  • They afterwards went to the Alhambra, taking a box, and Gobion pointed out various people as celebrities in literature and art, making himself a charming companion by his clever commentaries on the crowd.

  • Gobion went back to the box, where he found Moro de Minter, the new humourist, making himself agreeable.

  • He did no writing beyond his weekly contribution to The Pilgrim, but went abroad and looked around, making himself a niche before he essayed anything further.

  • Pelle was quite angry at the insubordination, and pondered over a way of making himself respected; for to-day he had had the other big boys against him.

  • He also felt that the boy was in process of making himself independent, and fought a desperate battle to preserve the last appearance of power.

  • Rowing people was not in the master's line, he was ill the moment there was any unpleasantness; but he had his own way of making himself respected.

  • All three wore ear-rings as a preventive of colds and other evils, and all sat in exactly the same position, as if the one were afraid of making himself in the very least different from the others.

  • He was fond of making himself useful, and was a perfect master of all those little caressing modes of behaviour in which the caress is quite impalpable, and of which most women know the value and appreciate the comfort.

  • He liked to give himself little airs, and was not generally disposed to labour very hard at the task of making himself agreeable.

  • Fouché, who possessed in perfection the art of making himself necessary, soon crept back secretly into the favor of the First Consul, and succeeded in getting himself made minister a second time.

  • So soon as a man is a king he is apart from all, and I have always held that the instinct of true policy was in Alexander’s idea of making himself out to be the descendant of a god.

  • The camp ashore was then broken up, and a great effort was made to persuade Cook to permit Mr. King to remain, as he had succeeded in making himself a great favourite with all.

  • Tupia had no difficulty in making himself understood.

  • It is worth recollecting too, though the fact has not been previously noticed, that this was the first occasion on which Bothwell aimed at making himself master of the Queen's person.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear fruit; connection with; elections last; fifth century; little ones; making believe; making body; making bread; making fire; making gold; making great; making himself; making known; making love; making machine; making mention; making money; making ready; making signs; making water; material culture; moral responsibility; more practical; natural increase; negro slavery; used often