I have rung the police and offered to go out myself with a radar gun but they said no. |
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I spent the rest of Thursday reminding myself just how much I suck for being so jacked about a stupid video game. |
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I can't tell you how many times I have congratulated myself on a multiple pirouette, only to have the next several fail abysmally. |
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Plus, I really want to get weaving on my Van Gogh piece but I promised myself I would sample the various permutations prior to starting. |
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Soon after I find myself in my Russian class, learning that adjectives have to correspond with the nouns they qualify. |
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I have put myself through a war of attrition, willing the other side to win. |
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I rock back and forth, clutching myself with my arms, feeling absurdly empty. |
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For a moment I toyed with presenting myself as a wanton temptress with a dozen regular gentlemen callers and a bedside drawer full of Mates. |
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I came home today instead of tomorrow, I was able to wangle myself a seat on a navy transport from Groton. |
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I stood in front of the mirror and jabbed myself in the eye twice with mascara wand, I was that excited. |
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I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over. |
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Mostly I collect the remnants of hobbies I've lost enthusiasm for, or have managed to convince myself I have no time for. |
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In fact, once the allotted time elapsed, I was actually able to get myself into my wheelchair alone. |
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I flatter myself by thinking that some wayward janitor refuses to wash it off because he agrees with the sentiment. |
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I know there are the big fold out credit card wallets but I'm running out of pockets and I can't quite bring myself to carry a handbag. |
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With that I sneered and walked off, my pace quick with the heat of getting myself angry again. |
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Since I spend so much of my waking day in my car I've got myself a stereo that is also an MP3 player. |
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I refuse to talk about my abortive attempt at qualifying for the Hanley Cup lest I depress myself even more. |
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As one who abominates everything the Third Reich stood for, I could not bring myself to judge her. |
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Looking back, it was a great place in which to grow up but, with my way-out lifestyle, I can't see myself living there now. |
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A southern jessie like myself would surely cut no sway with this Teesside Boadicea in Vivienne Westwood. |
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I felt myself reaching for the megaphone to release that energy and wairua. |
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Gifts arrived by the wagonloads, the servants rushed to prepare the large dinner for the party, I was beside myself trying to keep order. |
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As I drove I found myself thinking about the settlers who passed through the region by wagon. |
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The next day I decided that I would actually wash and wax it myself as it gives a better shine. So I'm out on the drive, polishing my car. |
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Fortunately, I have appealing contingency plans, but still first I'll apply myself to plan A with all my strength. |
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Having completed this last morsel, I occupied myself for a little with my journal. |
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I feel sick, have a painful headache and feel a bit under the weather, but I know that if I push myself and get out of bed I will feel better. |
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Instead of turning around I quicken my pace, stepping into an entranceway, pressing myself back against the door in fear. |
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I had to flatten myself against the wall to allow fully-laden groaning shopping trolleys, with well-fed pushers, make their way for the car park. |
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Olga predicated that it would him and myself who would marry well into St Petersburg society. |
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I fell forward, but found my footing just in time and regained my balance by steadying myself up against a letter box. |
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A taxi honked loudly as a scattering of pedestrians jaywalked across the street, myself included. |
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He liked the cut of my jib, and I also went out of my way to prove myself as an intrepid reporter. |
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I am having my normal discussion with myself about whether hypothetical questions actually need a question mark. |
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When asked how I would support myself in the US I told the Consulate staffer I was a journeyman carpenter. |
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Any scrapbook addict like myself would do well to keep all and paste them in the same scrapbook. |
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I had tramped miles and miles, in the hope of wearying myself so that I could sleep and forget. |
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Out of an estimated total of nine jumpers I've laboriously knitted for myself in my thirty-two years of life, only one was actually wearable. |
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I myself am lifted onto another stretcher, carried into the ambulance, and set down beside Michael. |
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I took a deep breath and lifted myself into sitting position, taking the two with me. |
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The Shipping News deals with weighty issues and is intellectually intriguing, but I found myself uninvolved from start to finish. |
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I find myself sat despondently at my desk, trying to come to terms with the fact that I actually have to work for living. |
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Joy made a radiant bride and the groom is a great guy, a lot like myself in character and in some ways also like Ann's father. |
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My mouth watered at the sight and smell but I forced myself to keep my head up and stand strong. |
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There was an act to match every taste, and even sober joes like myself could enjoy smoothies, fruit juices, chais and coffees. |
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Although I watched my diet and ate healthfully, I never deprived myself of any foods. |
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Fed up with a wasted journey, I decided to treat myself to a cream tea at the cafe next door, to no avail. |
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I was born in these hills and, half a century later, found myself filled with both dread and relief. |
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Like many university students in those early days of the Whitlam government, I saw myself as a bit of a rad. |
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I can picture myself in their place, garnering the accolades, the applause, the love, if only someone would take a chance on me. |
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But to be truthful it is very dull at the moment and it's a real job to motivate myself to study. |
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Oh, I acquitted myself well enough and no-one got bruised, but I ended the working day feeling washed out, tired and a little downcast. |
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The thought is that by talking about my Webbys' acceptance speech so much, I've jinxed myself out of winning. |
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I think of myself as a very friendly, easy, accessible guy, but I seem to intimidate people, or at least the fact of who I am intimidates people. |
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I convinced myself that she's just going through a phase and that nothing was wrong. |
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For years, I have led myself to believe that race relations were getting better in the world. |
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I want to look nice, but from the lack of knowledge in men's fashion, I see myself wearing old jeans or warm-ups too much. |
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I jinxed myself the other day by saying this was the first year since I was 18 that I'd not had bronchitis or lost my voice. |
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I myself have a small vegetable garden and do my canning without assistance, three or four quarts at a time. |
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I am endeavouring to sort myself some proper webspace to make this easier to access and to enable readers to post comments. |
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Then I hoist myself out of the freezing tub, and the two women wrap me in a thick, warm robe with a hood. |
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I don't consider myself a caffeine addict, but I do drink diet Coke every evening and probably a weak coffee every day or two on average. |
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I felt myself grow weak from the sudden loss of blood and I lost my grip on my sword. |
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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again, look for me under your bootsoles. |
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Last week, I took it upon myself to introduce you benighted savages to one of the great comedies of modern times. |
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Occasionally, I lose my bearings and permit myself an ounce of sympathy for Republican chairman Reince Priebus. |
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I found myself chatting with an older woman that was beaming from ear to ear. |
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He will be a hard act to follow but I hope, that as a long standing resident myself with three children in local schools, I will be a worthy successor to him. |
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So perhaps the barbed wire and the machinations of the plot did duty for other obstacles that stood between myself and freedom. |
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In fact, I described them this way myself when I wrote about infant memory two years ago for babble. |
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Despite the cloudless sky, I tried to convince myself that this also could have been an accident. |
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To further complicate things, I insisted on attaching myself as the screenwriter. |
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Still, I found myself agreeing with the older gentleman who saw the room as a sea of gentiles. |
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Unfortunately, the debate was hampered by the acoustics in the hall, and many of the participants, myself included, were unable to follow much of what was said. |
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Each one of us, myself included, began to jettison unnecessary baggage. |
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I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host. |
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So when I get caught and they take me out from the asylum to lynch me, I check myself back into the asylum. |
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I remembered myself standing there, on the green Astroturf carpet, looking down at the cover of Hannah and Her Sisters. |
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Some day, when I can afford it, I will buy myself a nice Danish modernist desk. |
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Exactly seventeen years later, I find myself in a head to head confrontation with the army, while the public at large is jeering and mocking me from the sidelines. |
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Not that I've outgrown New York, were that even possible, but in idle moments I have found myself combing property ads for old watermills and converted stables. |
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It seemed that I, a staunch feminist, had found myself in the epicenter of macho culture. |
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I was shaking now with rage, both at myself and at the accuser. |
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So not only would I consider myself a feminist, but I would consider myself a humanist. |
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I myself was stung by some wasps and went into mild anaphylactic shock. |
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A sobering article on gang rape inside a UVA fraternity has Wahoo alumni like myself up in arms. |
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For a Jane Doe such as myself the sight of all this hardware with massive antenna extended and satellite dishes pointing to the heavens was staggering. |
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I lathered up and washed myself with honeysuckle-scented soap. |
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Or was I just a piece of jailbait that threw myself at him unabashedly? |
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I saw myself as an advocate and agitator and behind-the-scenes lobbyist on some very minor aspects of it. |
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There were hundreds of extras there playing the studio audience, and I found myself warming them up, telling them what would happen and what was expected of them. |
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Once more I find myself squirming on the horns of a dilemma. |
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Instead of the agitation I had feared, I found myself able to paint there tranquilly. |
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I could save myself a lot of time and aggravation if I just limited my listening to megastars and their hyped hits. |
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I find myself in a quandary of sorts and wonder if you have any advice or insights you may be able to offer a young-ish, aspiring writer of fiction for the screen. |
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I survived about thirty-five years of it myself without calling in sick or making colossal mistakes or going postal whenever it was that time of the month. |
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It's been seven and a half weeks and I haven't absented myself once. |
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With Big Eyes a lot of people, myself included, were glad to see you emerge from the rabbit hole that is the cg world. |
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Instead of watching Rage, the Simpsons and Neighbours, I find myself waiting up for the end of Law and Order then crashing as soon as it finishes. |
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I abased myself in such a way that it makes me cringe to even remember it. |
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Why do I always find myself rooting for the team at the bottom of the league? |
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You must be feeling awful. I went through something similar myself last year, so I can relate. |
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I imagined myself becoming a card shark, but the dealer quickly discouraged me. |
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My active mind has always been a great strength, but as long as I can remember, my mind never rests and I exhaust myself mentally and emotionally. |
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I was very eager to protect myself from opportunists who may have crawled out of the woodwork to make a quick buck. |
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The bell for lunch rings, and I slowly pull myself out of my desk and drag my feet down the hall toward the cafeteria. |
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So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity. |
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Not only do I not classify myself as a birther, I specifically repudiate the birther thesis with two books and the film. |
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I looked back at him smiling with such radiance I could feel myself blush, and a single joyful tear expressed how hard it was for me to leave him behind. |
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On this point, I find myself much more solidly aligned with the tradition of female aca-fan than with many male scholars working in this space. |
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I only felt like myself when I was drunk Double-fisting beer was pretty typical for me back in the day. |
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I've been slowly familiarizing myself with the neighborhood. |
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I was so tired I could barely rouse myself to prepare dinner. |
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I managed to convince myself that I was doing the right thing. |
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Though this was one of the first mercantile transactions of my life, yet I had no doubt about acquitting myself with reputation. |
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While waiting for the bus, I amused myself by performing a mime interpretation of the Gettysburg Address. |
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Nor have I scrupled, in so flagrant a case, to allow myself a severity of animadversion little congenial with the general spirit of these papers. |
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The next thing I laid hold of was a brace of pistols, and as I already had a powder horn and bullets, I felt myself well supplied with arms. |
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How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness. |
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As I gazed at myself in the looking-glass, I found that I should be a handsome boy when I had put on my silver-buttoned attila. |
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I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production. |
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I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper. |
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A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be. |
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For my regular classes, as opposed to my special presentations, I find myself tending toward a bimedia technique. |
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My manager suddenly blasted me yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time. |
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Although I class myself as straight, I occasionally like a little boy-on-boy action. |
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Mr. Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady. |
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I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine. |
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Although sometimes I'd award myself a cheeky McDonald's hangover treat if I did well. |
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I'd be lying to myself if I pretended that seeing Logan here now isn't causing a parade of elephants to stampede through my upper chestal region. |
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Second, I operate under the policy that everything is chuckable unless proven otherwise. I must convince myself not to throw something away. |
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I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost. As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command out of the river. |
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I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter. |
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I felt no compunction in doing so, for under the circumstances I felt that I should protect myself in every way I could. |
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In my meeting with Dahlia, I found myself having a private countertransference thought which I certainly did not articulate to her. |
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But that only depresses me more! I need to defunkify myself in that manner too. |
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I once more find myself a dissident, and a dissident in a very small minority. |
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When I wake up, I make a point to divest myself of all my prejudices, ready to start the day. |
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I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes. |
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For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good! |
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Zuckerberg was on NPR today, being smarmy and disingenuous. He's a total douchebro. I hate myself for supporting his business model. |
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I was feeling drowsy and so decided to make a cup of coffee to try to wake myself up. |
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I have extricated myself so far at many eleventh hours and perhaps there is some hope in this. |
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The truth is I was an emotional cripple when I met her, drunk more often than not, punishing myself for doing things that went against my nature. |
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A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain. |
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Our task is only half finished. It will be my duty to enforce the decisions of the conference and I hereby pledge myself to that end. |
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For myself I could hold it in my account with God to find such an euthanasia for you, even at this moment if it were best. |
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Throughout, I stabilized myself with lots of examsmanship, in order to depress my fellow-candidates. |
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Had I been born in a feudalist society, I would have attempted to batter myself into the nobility. |
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I hastily fireproofed my clothing somewhat by pouring a bucket of water over myself before dashing into the flames. |
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Her stupidity flabbergasts me, and I have to force myself to keep a straight face while she explains her beliefs. |
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The paperbarks and floodgums that shroud us look eerie and ethereal in the silver light, and I find myself matching Jasper's step. |
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No I know I wont forget you but I'll forget myself if the city will forgive me. |
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The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied. |
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I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right. |
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Like everyone else who lifts weights, I wanted to maximize my gains and give myself the best chance to succeed. |
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When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted. |
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After he called me that, I couldn't help myself from getting up in his face. |
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My garden was rather outstanding, the work of Mrs Poole and myself during our more green-fingered moments. |
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I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey. |
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How does me saying to myself that somebody deserves what happens give any support to the happener? |
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As an interviewer, i quickly grasped that the key was to ingratiate myself with the subject, to be admiring, even humble, but not Heepish. |
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I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. |
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I sat there, with tears in my eyes, and hiccoughed for breath, quite beside myself with feverish merriment. |
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I have satisfied myself that she is alive, and apparently well, and hiding in plain sight. Prudence prevents me from saying where. |
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There were two major projects I was expected to throw myself into with the zeal of a cornered honeybadger. |
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Did you get ick all over my things? Should I walk myself through a car wash on the way home? |
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During the long, dreary, wet winter I amused myself by watching college and Pro basketball on the idiot box. |
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I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry. |
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The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous. |
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I turned myself in to be executed, but before I did, I paid off my mummifier. |
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I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature. |
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I am not a joiner. I am reluctant to sign up as a member of any organization, because I generally can't find myself or my ideas in it. |
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Should his troops effect a landing, I shall certainly put myself at the head of mine, and my other armed subjects, to repel them. |
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I gave myself a mental shakedown, tried to suppress my ladyboner and pushed past him. |
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The system in which I have embedded myself has its faults, some of them lampoonable. |
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I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man. |
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Observations by Ball and myself in Colorado show that in the case of magnetiferous granites, the magnetite was a mineral of the pegmatite stage. |
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Perhaps I should make myself scarce before he finds any more miserable tasks to assign to me. |
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Normally, I'd psych myself out of approaching her. I looked at her, trying to find something that reinforced my manning down. |
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Irritated by my feeling of non-specific mardiness, I force myself out of bed, stretching flamboyantly as I walk over to open the shutters. |
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His departure oppressed me with melancholy, and, re-entering the dwelling, I threw myself almost in despair upon the matting of the floor. |
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After the initial shock of discovering my scheduling megadisaster, I forced myself to take a deep breath. |
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I hated myself for cheating on Jill, but then I had cheated before, but this was something different. |
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At the moment I don't have any fire in the belly for a fight or to get myself to a gym. |
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I misexpressed myself when I said I didn't want to see you. I only meant that I was temporarily busy. |
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I had wanted to stand for the party at the next election, but I cannot bring myself to vote for the party at the moment, let alone stand for it. |
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I think I was always looking for the entertainer in myself and I seem to be able to entertain through manipulating language. |
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I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London. |
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Neither myself nor Alan thought we were signing it over to a board of trustees who would look after it like it was the Dead Sea Scrolls. |
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But though you will be angry to hear it, I believe, for myself at least, what is is best. |
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The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes and before I could read them for myself I had come to love the words of them. |
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There is only a murha in the opposite corner and I do not want to be uncomfortable now. I lower myself into my father's chair. |
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About a month ago I suddenly found myself in the right frame of mind for doing philosophy. |
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But when it came to action I found myself between the fires of two professional narrow-mindednesses. |
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I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts. |
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Since I was the only nonemployee in the store, I promptly outed myself as a New York Times reporter. |
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What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles. |
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Having now seen for myself how he travelled across the pack ice, I am more convinced than ever that Peary did indeed discover the North Pole. |
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Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt. |
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I must confess that I myself had been inclined towards Monotheism till this time. |
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Hey, it's not like I wouldn't take the guy to Pound Town myself if I was single, but he's messing with a married man. |
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If I take a wife it will be because, being better freed from numerous worries, I can devote myself to the Lord. |
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I could not myself keep quiet whilst people were being penalised for something about which they could do nothing, their sexuality. |
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It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society. |
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It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently to clear myself in this matter. |
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To this day, I notice myself treating the memory and tradition of the USSR with an indulgence and tenderness. |
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Leading the life I did, of the sedulous, strained nurse, I had to do something to keep myself fit. |
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Should I ascribe any of these things unto myself or my sexly weaknesse, I were not worthy to live. |
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I had always prided myself on being creative, but in the sexperience department I was coming up dry. |
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I spent the next frantic seconds trying to disentangle myself from the pole while the crowd and the contestants guffawed. Shazbot! |
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But almost at once I told myself that I ought to have Sherlocked the truth the moment this troubled, beautiful being had appeared on deck. |
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This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed. |
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I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it. |
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Suddenly I feel myself become small as a swanling, tucked into the swan's feathers. |
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Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight? |
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I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment. |
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And, doing third edits for Lindsay notwithstanding, The Paper was a thwartful place for a would-be writer like myself to work in. |
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In the squalid, unlit, toiletless bathroom, I poured cold water over myself with a bucket, soaped, and rinsed. |
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I toothbrushed the stale rum stink from my mouth and stared at myself in the cabinet mirror. |
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To expiate my past sins, I will accuse myself of them courageously, and will not leave one unbanished from my heart. |
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Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. |
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But I played the clarinet at school and I've taught myself the Alpine horn. |
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Man, I've diverted myself whiles with the science of the stars, and can make a shape at calculating a nativity. |
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I found myself wondering perversely whether Ross was the whipper or the whippee. Or maybe they took turns. |
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I can no more tell you the whys and wherefores of myself than I can lift myself up by the waistband and carry myself into the next county. |
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I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child. |
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Now, finding myself wizardless, I'm holding a contest to see who'll take McAig's place. |
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I drew myself up taller. I gave a beautiful account of my career with the Wobblies. |
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Reclaiming my true womynhood, learning to truly know and love myself and other wimmin has taken time. |
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I dinna wish to worrit myself about ye running off to the nunnery or wi' another man. |
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Unfortunately, there isn't much demand for old wingers like myself to coach the wide boys of the future. |
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I can't rid myself of the fear that racists and xenophobes will use the last-straw Roma as a reason to take the streets. |
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Ithink it's actually good for me to do my own yardages every now and then to get myself more into the game than I have in the past. |
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Is there anything I can bug for myself without a prescription to help treat a yeast infection, and if so, what? |
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All you do is gab with the yentas all day long while I wear myself out going from shop to shop looking for work. |
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As a fellow military man myself and an Anglophile, we chatted about numerous subjects. |
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Emulating Moynihan, I found myself drafting much jauntier business memoranda than usual over the past two months. |
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I found myself dazed and bewildered by their nonstop laughing, joking, and jibber jabber. |
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The final day included a 50m jumar a rope climbing method which involved hauling myself up a rope. |
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Give me a few minutes to sort myself out and I'll be with you. |
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I have frequently amused myself both in public and private companies, with silently remarking, the specious errors of those who speak without reflecting. |
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After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike. |
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Any time I let a kindergarten crowd like that work a trick on me that was invented right after Noah discovered spoiled grape juice, I owe myself a month in jail. |
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I prefer tailorable fabrics to make myself some unique outfit. |
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I became aware of the figure of a youth about my own height, and habited in a white kerseymere morning frock, cut in the novel fashion of the one I myself wore at the moment. |
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I see myself and Quest falling over backwards and his body rolling off my legs, and that wicked metal pommel winking in the sun, having almost kebabbed me. |
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This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before,and must relieve myself by writing to you.... Guess my astonishment, and vexation. |
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I couldn't tear myself away from the movie after I had begun watching it. |
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So I gave myself a week's reprieve and started another eatathon. |
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I've been watching Inuyasha yesterday and that got me wanting to make myself a hengeyokai character... and then I remembered the level adjustment. |
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I spent so much time at home. I found myself becoming a TVaholic. I loved reruns and old movies. I fantasized a lot about being rich, beautiful, and of course, married. |
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Everyone will have to guess who I want to dance with tonight, I thought. I'm not giving myself away to this bunch of gomers. That would be way too embarrassing. |
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I just new I wouldn't have to keep sending Gallup polls out to Negroes all around the country. And that is how I found myself starting my junior year in Ms. Gruwell's class. |
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I felt myself turn blue then green then white, but before I succumbed to the growing onslaught of fainthood, I crawled back to my bed and awakened my pregnant wife. |
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Then I'd tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I'd be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn't. I don't want to die. |
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It's got me into trouble a few times as I get so antsy being on my own that I end up throwing myself at people who I don't have much in common with. |
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I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket. |
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I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard. |
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This is a difficult chapter, as I am a mother myself and also emetophobic. |
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As I joyfully embiggen myself into the vague silhouette of Chewbacca, I have time to reflect on just what it is about big hair that I find so elementally appealing. |
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Some branches weren't duckable and there was nothing to do but close my eyes and shield myself with an arm. Mesquite thorns sliced into my hands, neck and face. |
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The cast were resplendent in bright colours and all-out wackiness and, for the first time, I found myself taking in the detail as something to be enjoyed in its own right. |
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I had nothing to fear, deathwise, from a stupid wolf. I threw myself at the fur bag, wrapping my left arm around his neck, and with my right hand clawed his eyes. |
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Howevertheless, speaking for me, myself and I personally, we are all of us agreeing that it has been so brightingly coloursome and wondrous to have felt you again. |
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Because my identity is female, I present myself online as female. As such I'm able to meet a lot of cislesbians, in places like Second Life, dating websites or in chat rooms. |
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Her father's sad passing makes such memories deeply poignant, but Meadows relays them too chirpily for me to embarrass myself by getting moist-eyed. |
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I feel securely fixed on the careering chair, and with the momentum gained I steer myself as on skis to the guard and come to a stop with a happy little flourish. |
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When I talk to other business lawyers about the beer industry I often find myself describing the relationship between brewers and wholesalers as a marriage. |
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Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and without any intimations of my own ludicrousness spent two years showing God what I thought of him by letting myself go. |
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The posh town with its Dutch-style colonial architecture is miles away from the shanty town in every sense, but I still found myself dancing with Xosas and Zulus. |
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Much as Jenkins positions himself as an 'academic fan' in his 1992 work on Star Trek fandom, I too consider myself an acafan in my study of slash. |
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But it wasn't possible at the time, and I put it off, and androgyny became a way of expressing my femininity without having to explain myself to people too much. |
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Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas. |
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On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now. |
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I'll play the first couple of bars by myself to lead you in. |
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I felt myself the protector of my loved one. She leaned against me. |
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I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes. |
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I would not find myself at thirty brigaded with a set of low-hearted priests and seminarists, who have no other weapons than treachery, nor any strategy but lies. |
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So I left Teach for America, moved home to be with my mother and prepare for my surgery, and transformed myself into a macrobiotically inclined housekeeper. |
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Dressing myself as quietly as I could, and leaving Peggotty to look after my aunt, I tumbled head foremost into it, and then went for a walk to Hampstead. |
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Here I was all alone, no one to help me get over my mom's and sister's death, just me myself and I. It was as if I died and all I could see was black. |
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I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams. |
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I myself will make an attempt to produce a grand opera of this new school. |
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I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed. |
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I thinke none ever had this kind before myselfe nor did I myself ever see it before the year 1618 for it is of mine own raising and flowering first in my own garden. |
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This step had no success, but on the contrary there sprang up from that day forth an estrangement between the Emperor and myself which steadily increased. |
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I disencumbered myself by main force, and fled, but he overhied me, knocked me down, and threatened, with dreadful oaths, to throw me from the cliff. |
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I convinced myself with every passing peaceful moment that things were getting better, that the worst was over. In that, I was pants-shittingly wrong. |
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Happier after that expression of poco-curantism, I strolled down to Veeraswamy's and thoughtfully gorged myself with curried lamb and buttered chapatis. |
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One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties. |
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I've put myself down for the new Spanish conversation course. |
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With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think! |
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Grey will never consent and I shall not separate myself from him. |
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I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. |
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I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn. |
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I grip the bike rack with both hands, but then the track gets rucklier so I steady myself by hooking one thumb through a belt-loop on Brubeck's jeans. |
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In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning. |
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In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport. |
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