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“The faith to throw oneself over the highest bar,” Swinton said of Miller’s long-gesticulating endeavor.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2022

I wanted to throw myself on a bed and cry about being so hungry and about everything else, but these were not beds onto which one could throw oneself.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

This struggle not to throw oneself in must be dreadfully difficult?

From Literary Lapses by Leacock, Stephen

But if one falls, that is no reason to throw oneself in the abyss.

From Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Maupassant, Guy de

How much easier, then, to throw oneself on the superior educational qualifications of the German military machine.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)




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