bind oneself

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"But to promise to abjure under condition of being set free, is to bind oneself to abjure," answered Joan, disconcerted by the canon's sophism.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Discussing divorce he claims as essential to manhood the right to bind oneself and to be taken at one's word.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

One doesn't bind oneself for life after having spent one evening together; it doesn't follow that he who has enjoyed the rapture, must also undergo the pain.

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August

One thing would be terrible," said he: "to bind oneself forever to a suffering man.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf