Sentence examples for took to himself from inspiring English sources

The standard genres – comedy, melodrama, western, film noir – he took to himself with peculiar zest; his secret was an ease at improvisation that required a constant adroitness with his company.

And when Jesus the Son of God died for our sins, He took to Himself the infinity of them, because He was of God and could die for the sins of the dead and the living and the unborn for generations to come.

According to the Illuminated Chronicle, Stephen had no "wish to marry a lawful wife but took to himself concubines and harlots".

He took to calling himself the Comte de Rola.

During the 1980 Presidential campaign, he took to describing himself to the members of "the liberal press" as a conservative.

Little is known about the measures Berezovsky took to rid himself of the gangster threat.

Graham Greene even took to calling himself an "agnostic Catholic" toward the end of his life.

Barnes took to Twitter to defend himself.

Howard himself never took to the show.

"He will do everything it takes to get himself ready.

Lately, though, he'd taken to calling himself a Possibilian — a denomination of his own invention.