bind oneself

As she expressed it, it was one thing to obey God, but quite another thing to bind oneself to obey a man for a lifetime.

“I—I mean it is wrong to bind oneself by a promise one may not be able to keep,” Miss Bibby added hastily.

It is so provincial to bind oneself to views which are no longer binding a couple of hundred miles away.

To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.