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Example sentences for "selfsame"

Lexicographically close words:
selfish; selfishly; selfishness; selfless; selflessness; selig; sell; sella; selle; seller
  1. With the selfsame baton which I had employed upon the Mer de Glace in 1857, and which Simond had preserved, the worthy fellow now took up the line.

  2. I have thus far spoken of obscure heat only; but the selfsame ray may excite both light and heat.

  3. I never thought to ask, I never knew; But in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you!

  4. The colours of the clouds delight the eye, and, no doubt, accomplish moral purposes also, but the selfsame clouds hold within their fleeces the moisture by which our fields are rendered fruitful.

  5. Supposing them to have the selfsame forces and distribution of forces, the selfsame motions and distribution of motions--would this organised concourse of molecules stand before us as a sentient thinking being?

  6. It might however be urged that, inasmuch as we derive all our heat from the sun, the selfsame covering which protects the earth from chill must also shut out the solar radiation.

  7. Here is the selfsame substance submitted to pressure.

  8. Yonder butterfly has a spot of orange on its wing; and if we look at a drawing made a century ago, of one of the ancestors of that butterfly, we probably find the selfsame spot upon the wing.

  9. Will he be disposed to conclude that the selfsame substance is barren in Albemarle Street and fruitful in Gower Street or the Strand?

  10. I employ the selfsame wire to connect the two ends of the battery, and subject it to the same test.

  11. Whoso, therefore, you can by the word, judge a visible saint, one that walketh with God; you may judge by the selfsame word that God hath received him.

  12. And on the selfsame day they were to proclaim that that first day should be a holy convocation unto them.

  13. And in that selfsame year died the good Countess Matilda.

  14. And all flesh is of the dust; and for the selfsame end hath he created them, that they should keep his commandments and glorify him forever.

  15. Alma 24:4 4 And the king died in that selfsame year that the Lamanites began to make preparations for war against the people of God.

  16. I now began to perceive that the dismissal of the school, and my own release from torment, depended upon this selfsame rope.

  17. Cursed by the angry sage’s power, She stood in stone that selfsame hour.

  18. Like Ráma’s self, from whom they came, They showed their sire in face and frame, As though from some fair sculptured stone Two selfsame images had grown.

  19. My nieces twain Let Bharat and Śatrughna gain, And the four youths the selfsame day Four maiden hands in theirs shall lay.

  20. Those closing minims Had been as shafts darting Through him and her pressed In that last parting; They thrilled him not now, In the selfsame place With the selfsame sun On his war-seamed face.

  21. No, alas, Fifty years later, when he died, I sat me in the selfsame chair, Thinking of him.

  22. That on the tomb of the selfsame one, gone where The dawn of every day is as the close is, You would lay roses!

  23. These in flowers and men are more than seeming, Workings are they of the selfsame powers, Which the poet, in no idle dreaming, Seeth in himself and in the flowers.

  24. But not even 'Gene Crook himself conceived of the unusual circumstances that came to pass and brought him on a visit to these selfsame people, later.

  25. Her eyes were as they had been that day near this selfsame spot years before, kind and endearing.

  26. So when years had passed, and these selfsame children had reached their majority, they too, took unto themselves wives, and the wives were of the Caucasian blood.

  27. He could not in that moment understand why they had not been coming back to that selfsame point in recent months.

  28. Don Jacinto, it may surprise you, but others have been here no more than an hour ago seeking news of this selfsame Morales and his fantastic troop.

  29. Women who had been made widows in the selfsame way as Jacinto Quesada's mother came to the hut and sought to comfort her.

  30. It was the selfsame hour Ferou himself had bargained with the Guardias Civiles for the killing of Quesada!

  31. Now it happens that a year ago, when we sailed from Hawaii, that selfsame chronometer had that selfsame losing error of seven-tenths of a second.

  32. Might he not ultimately have come to die on the selfsame scaffold, aye, and deserved it too?

  33. And it is the selfsame worm which kills the one and will not let the other die.

  34. The selfsame circumstances which raise the man depress the woman.

  35. What a husband should do, is to show himself great enough and good enough to know and feel that, in love, giving and receiving wear the selfsame grace.

  36. I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The selfsame Power that brought me there brought you.

  37. Telling the selfsame tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selfsame" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alike; copy; ditto; double; duplicate; equal; equivalent; exact; facsimile; identical; indistinguishable; like; one; replica; same; selfsame; synonym; tantamount; twin; very