restrain oneself

Example Sentences

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What could be more trying than to have to skulk and dodge and restrain oneself, mentally and physically, when one's blood was up?

From Victory An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph

I'd be glad to, but one can't restrain oneself.

From Plays by Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nicolaevich

Upon this, the third day of junketing, it was tiresome to have to restrain oneself even from such innocent excursions of fancy.

From Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia

Both the mother and daughter affected to despise the Connop Greens;—but it is so hard to restrain oneself from confidences when difficulties arise!

From The American Senator by Trollope, Anthony

Now culture may or may not include the power to admire antiquities, and to restrain oneself from the pleasure of breaking them like toys.

From The Crimes of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)