bury oneself in
Example Sentences
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And yet it was good and stimulating to hear all that and to have to bury oneself in it for reality's sake.
From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas
"To bury oneself in one's art, and spurn all else, is the only way to evade unhappiness," he writes to his friend.
From The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski by Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich
To retreat from town, from the struggle, from the bustle of life, to retreat and bury oneself in one's farm—it's not life, it's egoism, laziness, it's monasticism of a sort, but monasticism without good works.
From The Wife, and other stories by Garnett, Constance
It is not necessary to bury oneself in the country, nor, with the new facilities of transportation, need we, unless we wish to, pay the extravagant rents and enormous cost of living in the city.
From Three Acres and Liberty by Hall, Bolton
