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Experience had taught me, that it was as well to make one's-self as comfortable as might be upon these occasions; so I took the easy-chair, and tried to look as if I thought the dean merely wanted to have a pleasant half-hour's chat.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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An odd manner, it may seem, of tying up a horse; but the most convenient and natural one in a country where one may often find one's-self fifty miles from any house, and five-and-twenty from a tree or bush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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It was a fine thing to occupy one's-self in tilting over huge boulders, and to see them gradually approach the edge of the gulf, and then leap thundering into the mist.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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Ex.: _Li amas sin_, he loves himself; _ŝi amas sin_, she loves herself; _ĝi montras sin_, it shows itself; _ili diras al si_, they say to themselves; _oni vidas sin_, one sees one's-self; _mi lavas min_, I wash myself; _vi laŭdas vin_, you praise yourself.
Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann
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Treason was now rampant, and it would not be difficult, in looking around upon the most unprepossessing groups, and to hear the language, to fancy one's-self in Charleston, or some other nest of treason.
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details I. Windslow Ayer
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At Morden the light was so strong, that it was difficult to persuade one's-self the fire was not much nearer; and at Tooting you would have sworn it was at the next village.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 Various
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These were, he had already told us himself, "to have a gun and fifty cartridges, to be ready to devote one's-self, and to obey blindly the orders of unknown leaders."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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The road winds along at some distance from the river, frequently out of sight of it; the shore is uneven, covered with crags and hillocks; nothing like a landmark to be seen, or a mountain to guide one's-self by, except occasionally, when one gets a peep at the Appalachians rising out of the blue distance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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The country in which we were, seemed made on purpose to lose one's-self in.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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The REFLEXIVE PRONOUN of the 3rd person is _si_ (accusative _sin_), standing for _himself_, _herself_, _itself_, _one's-self_, or
Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann
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