bind oneself
Example Sentences
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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 Maisie Ward
It is so provincial to bind oneself to views which are no longer binding a couple of hundred miles away.
From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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 Aquinas Thomas
“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
One thing would be terrible," said he: "to bind oneself forever to a suffering man.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
