bind oneself

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One thing would be terrible," said he: "to bind oneself forever to a suffering man.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But it is, perhaps, better to bind oneself.

From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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 Ward, Maisie

To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle.

From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede

Wherefore if in taking a vow, it is one's intention and will to bind oneself to fulfil it at once, one is bound to fulfil it immediately.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint