Sentence examples for he recalled himself from inspiring English sources

He recalled himself as a young law student and World War II veteran, walking across the University of Virginia campus, being stopped and asked by the president of the university if everything was going well.

From the age of six, Edward began his formal education under Richard Cox and John Cheke, concentrating, as he recalled himself, on "learning of tongues, of the scripture, of philosophy, and all liberal sciences"; He received tuition from Elizabeth's tutor, Roger Ascham, and Jean Belmain, learning French, Spanish and Italian.

He recalls himself in 1918 - the son of a New York Central conductor wearing a Navy ensign's uniform.

And are you a mad person too, he recalls himself thinking.

He recalls himself as a virgin undergraduate seduced by Sebastian from tweedy academia (Irons, otherwise impeccable, rather overdoes the bottom-lip-nibbling coy ingenue bit in Sebastian's presence) into the Marchmain family's ambit and into Brideshead's bombastic precincts.

"This is my patient," he recalled telling himself.

"Well, this isn't going anywhere," he recalled telling himself.

"This was their thinking?" he recalled asking himself.

"I can always go back to the roof," he recalled telling himself.

"Skycaps are back in business," he recalled telling himself that day.

What's the ethical thing to do?" he recalled asking himself.