bind oneself
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One thing would be terrible," said he: "to bind oneself forever to a suffering man.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
To bind oneself to live with a man when perhaps we have ceased to care for him; it’s hideous.”
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Now it does not seem unlawful to bind oneself to an obligation of the natural law.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
“I—I mean it is wrong to bind oneself by a promise one may not be able to keep,” Miss Bibby added hastily.
From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane
To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.
From Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett
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