Sentence examples for holds of itself from inspiring English sources

The British were colonials... Am I going to be called a bloody colonial in this country?" Of course, the truth is that Australians were colonials – but it is something that does not fit well with the view that the nation holds of itself.

Only reluctantly do you concede that the mystery must eventually get hold of itself, and come to order.

"Eadric holds of the abbey itself half a hide which the abbey held for 2 years before the death of King Edward," says the entry.

We assume that the cross-holdings are nonnegative, i.e., C ij ≥0 for all (i,jin mathcal {N}), and that a bank is not allowed to hold shares of itself, i.e., C ii =0 for all (iin mathcal {N}).

It can also be repetitious and disjointed, losing hold of itself (of herself, that is) and delivering set pieces of uneven quality on assorted Spanish and Catalan topics.

But at last she found out that the proper way was to keep tight hold of itself foot and its right ear" and turned it into "She wriggled about so!

But there is another alternative: to detect in the prospect of answers without questions and choices, without deliberation or even thought, a path that will lead eventually only to more inhumanity, owing to the urges that may at any moment take hold of a people that senses itself withering away.

Of course, the irony of burqa swag is that it holds in itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Each acorn is a seed that holds within itself the pattern of a Great Oak, invisible to itself -- symbolic of each individual's profound potential.

All that holding of hands.

They would have got hold of me".