throw oneself

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“The faith to throw oneself over the highest bar,” Swinton said of Miller’s long-gesticulating endeavor.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2022

I wanted to throw myself on a bed and cry about being so hungry and about everything else, but these were not beds onto which one could throw oneself.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

In fact, I think of myself as little as possible; it's the only way to bear life, to throw oneself out of the personal.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Once throw oneself into the atmosphere of myth and it is not difficult to comprehend how such stories grew up.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

I meant," she said, speaking with difficulty, "what I have often found—myself—that it helps one sometimes, to throw oneself altogether into something outside one's own life, in a large disinterested way.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.