warm oneself
Example Sentences
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The Comtesse d'Aunoy grumbles that it was impossible to warm oneself at the kitchen-fire without being choked, for there was no chimney.
From English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard
If courage is manifest in endurance of profitless discomfort it is cowardice to warm oneself when cold, to cure oneself when ill, to drive away mosquitoes, to go in when it rains.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
After all, he concluded, one might warm oneself at the flame, and yet neither possess it utterly nor be destroyed.
From The Wheel of Life by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
"Oh, not in this climate," said she tranquilly; adding, with a touch of malice: "and there are always plenty of fires where one can warm oneself, quelquefois."
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley
