bind oneself
Example Sentences
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But it is, perhaps, better to bind oneself.
From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.
From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede
Its root is that of the verb "rotisya," to bind oneself by an oath; and it is generally admitted to be only another form of "rota," which now signifies a "regimental company."
From The Prince by Machiavelli, Niccolò
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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm