In that case, I told myself, that most promising couple must have been something very like a pair!
I told myself that I was a fool ever to have had anything to do with the business.
Taken altogether, a more romantic personality could scarcely be imagined, and as he came up the gangway, I told myself that he was the best figure of a man I had seen for some considerable time.
The next time, I told myself, I crossed the threshold, it would in all probability be to be haled to a place of execution.
As I followed beside Laputa I told myself that if ever I got free, when the war was over I would go to Inanda's Kraal, find the grave, and put a tombstone over it in memory of the dog that saved my life.
Ek sal 'n plan maak,' I told myself in the old Dutchman's words.
She was waiting, I told myself, waiting; and I had even pictured to myself the grim irony of a situation in which our junior might be called upon to arrange her marriage settlements.
Instead, I told myself, she had bound him hand and foot before casting him down into the arena.
It was quite possible, I told myself, that I had been making a bogy of my own imaginings.
Not grief alone, I told myself, could have caused this breakdown; it was the secret weighing upon her.
One day I felt sure that he loved you, and would confide in me; the next time we met he was so quiet and strange that I told myself it was all fancy, and that I should be a silly, match-making creature if I said a word.
I told myself that it must be done--that body must be concealed where no prying eyes could find it, and so that he who hid it could never be forced to bear the blame.
Perhaps this new idea was a mad one, I told myself.
I told myself that I must do my best to wash away these tell-tale stains before leaving the room; but first I would look for the treaty.
It entangled my will and my pride; I told myself I was not going to be beaten.
I've used you as a sort of lay figure--when I've told myself stories.
And all this has to end, I told myself, all this has to end.
But when you seemed a successful man, I told myself I wouldn't.
I told myself, 'if, after all, I am surprised if Marjorie does see something in him.
I told myself that if anywhere, at any time, I saw writing paper like that again, I should not fail to know it.
I was now in my twelfth year, and very nearly a man, I told myself.
And with a sudden rush of hope I told myself, "It's still alive!
In short, I told myself savagely, it was neither hay nor tears!
That was it, I told myself, these people were all friends of revolutions.
Here is a girl," I told myself, "so selfishly wrapped up in her father she hasn't a thought for anyone else.
Nothing, I told myself, should induce me at any time, or under any circumstances, to put up under their roof again.
Never, I told myself, never while I lived could I forget that fixed attitude and stony face, or the glare of those terrible eyes.
I told myself, that however much Robert had been interested, he ought to have remembered the difficulty I had in attending to both children during a meal.
I also tried to be pleased and happy, for I told myself, that if there had been any real reason for the grief I had just indulged, God would have spoken a word of comfort to me, yet when I showed Him the changed ring, He did not.
I told myself, that I would not go to bed with that strange verse pealing in my ears.
So I rose and put on a gown that Robert liked to see me wearing, a handsomer garment than I usually wore, but I told myself that if trouble should be coming, I would meet it dressed like one who meant to conquer.
I might have to use my rifle for long-range work, I told myself, but for the close-in action in the trenches I was going to do with my wrench what the other fellows did with their bayonets.
A wise precaution, I told myself; now what about the other?
I was of no use to myself or any one else in a German prison camp, I told myself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "told myself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
