The phrase "scale himself" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use this phrase when referring to someone climbing up or down something, typically using their hands and feet to get leverage. For example, "John scaled himself up the side of the building to get to the roof."
And he has scaled himself up with surprising ease: he now consorts with many of the nation's top business leaders.
The whole undertaking is riper than an autumn scrumping, as Falle scales himself up to fit the epic proportions of his tales.
If the human element is reduced in scale (Faust himself is stripped of metaphysical rhapsody and becomes merely frustrated), Goethe's cosmic element is Murnau's triumph: the director conjures grand-scale conceits that set the drama firmly between Heaven and Hell.
He added compositions in more popular idioms and scales, named himself Yatsuhashi Kengyō, and founded the Yatsuhashi school of koto.
A rather unlikely Brooklyn-based DJ, producer, and saxophone player Sammy Bananas is trying to balance the carbon scales for himself and his peers.
He ended up getting paid scale, and found himself bumped down to a lower salary bracket for the rest of his feature-film career.
Retreat may be an understandable response, given the status of Mr. Axelrod, the orchestra's benefactor and a storyteller of bravura scale, who is himself now an international fugitive from justice.
To move unusual art products to a grand gallery scale, Lobo immerses himself in research, which accounts for the myriad sources of inspiration he identified for the project – from ancient Greek and Roman culture to how skateboarders use emptied swimming pools as ramps.
If artists are to be Gods of their own creations deciding whimsically or methodically how paint flows across the canvas, well then God-forbid a fly or knat ruin a pristine landscape by attaching itself to the wet paint, especially on the large scale Moses prides himself with.
