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Example sentences for "presented itself"

  • And in that place, religion, religious system, its claim to overpower one, presented itself in a way of which even the least serious by nature could not be unaware.

  • At last, seeing that neither creek nor inlet presented itself, they made straight for the shore, and when within about thirty paces of the strand, they dropped anchor and suffered the boat to drift into shallow water.

  • The possibility of moral experience, incalculable in extent as that golden-gray outspread of creeping, increasing vapour overhead, presented itself to him.

  • After the abbe had delivered a brief discourse on the nature of secret missions and the discretion necessary to those charged with them, he told me that he would let me know when anything suitable for me presented itself.

  • However, as such an idea would not have suited the views I had about her, I rejected it whenever it presented itself to my mind.

  • One took the north and the other the south of Europe, and both cheated and duped whenever the opportunity for doing so presented itself.

  • The ambition of money-making, which as it were naturally and inevitably suggests itself to a youth of parts in an English village, never seems to have so much as presented itself to the mind of Hugh Miller.

  • Christianity, on the contrary, existed first, and the Scripture was the organ through which it presented itself to, and propagated itself among men.

  • The Mussulman army had scarcely pitched its tents when it presented itself in battle array before the trenches of the Crusaders, and fought with them several combats, in which victory was doubtful.

  • The loss of a battle would have spread less consternation than the sad spectacle which now presented itself to the eyes of the Christians.

  • The Crusaders still remained in Semlin, and were glorifying themselves upon their triumph, when all at once an army, assembled in haste by Coloman, king of Hungary, presented itself to their view.

  • Overcome by thirst and heat, the soldiers turned up the soil with their swords, and burying themselves in the freshly-moved earth, eagerly carried to their lips every moist clod that presented itself.

  • He held his hand in the same position, intent on seizing the chance the instant it presented itself, but the Indian was wonderfully cunning.

  • He was unable to do this at the time the cabin was attacked, and therefore kept in the background until the present opportunity presented itself.

  • When the image of the Advocate, of his friend, presented itself to him, he thrust it sadly from him.

  • The thought of bearing another name, of being no longer Greifenstein, of being the father of a new race in a new home, presented itself to him in all its attractions.

  • The idea of devoting himself to his brother, and of expending all his strength and intelligence in the attempt to make him outlive the dreadful memory of this day, presented itself to Rex's mind.

  • At length, as he vainly fancied, it presented itself.

  • Without this storm the balloon would have started already and the looked-for opportunity would not have then presented itself.

  • He was borne down, notwithstanding every effort, carried through one of the arches of the bridge, and though he struck for the shore as long as he could, yet nothing but the town wall presented itself dipping in the river.

  • At any rate when the sun had passed the meridian and the afternoon was well advanced, he made up his mind that he would take the first chance to secure food, no matter in what shape it presented itself.

  • One of the other Indians was peering with equal intentness at the same point, but the minutes passed and nothing presented itself.

  • The conclusion of the boy was a sensible one, and he resolutely faced the situation as it presented itself to him.

  • It was with light spirits that the party set out on their journey, Felix keenly alive to every fresh scene or incident as it presented itself, and there were few of either that failed to leave their stamp upon his impressionable mind.

  • Very soon came the desire to compose; but just here the toughest obstacle of all, perhaps, presented itself--the studies comprised no instruction in counterpoint.

  • Requesting his wife to hold her peace for the moment, he seized the opportunity the instant it presented itself, and with comparatively little outlay of strength, placed himself astride the branch.

  • There was but one escape that presented itself--that was flight.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arise from; asked leave; domestic manufactures; evil things; hilted sword; house door; larger share; makes mention; may have been the; moderate doses; most happy; much disturbed; much regret; often happens; presented himself; presented itself; presented myself; presented themselves; said river; sieve they; supreme importance; taught school; this style; tissue cells; tripartite resolution