bind oneself
Example Sentences
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To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.
From Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett
One doesn't bind oneself for life after having spent one evening together; it doesn't follow that he who has enjoyed the rapture, must also undergo the pain.
From The Red Room by August Strindberg
As she expressed it, it was one thing to obey God, but quite another thing to bind oneself to obey a man for a lifetime.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
But it is not policy to bind oneself too closely to detail.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Discussing divorce he claims as essential to manhood the right to bind oneself and to be taken at one's word.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
