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
But it is, perhaps, better to bind oneself.
From Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“I—I mean it is wrong to bind oneself by a promise one may not be able to keep,” Miss Bibby added hastily.
From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane
"But to promise to abjure under condition of being set free, is to bind oneself to abjure," answered Joan, disconcerted by the canon's sophism.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
