1 "No; to leave an issue to cards means to submit oneself to the unknown," said Chichikov, covertly glancing at the pack which Nozdrev had got in his hands.
2 Much object there would be in dragging oneself over forty miles on a wild-goose chase.
3 In your house one can at any rate shut oneself up.
4 Then one had to examine the contending parties, and shout oneself hoarse, knowing all the while that one could never anyway arrive at a just decision.
5 I am convinced that Heine is right; I quite understand how sometimes one may, out of sheer vanity, attribute regular crimes to oneself, and indeed I can very well conceive that kind of vanity.
6 But it's impossible to conceal oneself, impossible.
7 Not only would it have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to be carried back with it oneself.
8 "Oh, it's terrible to feel oneself so in this man's power," thought Rostov.
9 But it was impossible to smarten oneself up or move to another place, because of the crowd.
10 Thirty carts could not save all the wounded and in the general catastrophe one could not disregard oneself and one's own family.
11 To love everything and everybody and always to sacrifice oneself for love meant not to love anyone, not to live this earthly life.
12 One thing would be terrible," said he: "to bind oneself forever to a suffering man.
13 a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 14 One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 15 There opportunities of losing oneself abound.
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