"Itself" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... word milk the face of the petitioning fool, ugly enough when untroubled by crosses, took upon itself an expression so hideous that if the girl's spirit had ever permitted her to recoil from any terror she might ...
— The Proud Prince • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... reached the opposite bank, however, the deer freed itself from the tree and plunged into a thicket. The king, with his sword in his hand, followed quickly, but no deer could he see. Instead, he found, lying on the ground beyond the thicket, a beautiful youth clad in a deer-skin. He was panting as if after a long ...
— Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends • Gertrude Landa
... in the spirit of one who never expects to do it again, and so deeply did the city print itself upon her memory that she was able to recall years afterwards a hundred of its glittering points, angles, and facets. She felt herself up-borne by money. Without Haney's bank-book she would have been merely one ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... hinder me. The difficulty that might do the hindering is not to be left to itself, but is to be kept under the control ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... by the queen, that I feel somewhat at a loss what to do. I can understand that, young and ardent, increased rank would have no charm for you. Were it otherwise I could bestow the highest rank upon you. I am aware that your habits are simple, for I have made inquiries, and that money in itself goes for little in your eyes; still, sir, one who has the honour of being first minister of France, and who is also a very rich man, cannot remain with a debt of gratitude wholly uncancelled. I hear from ...
— Won by the Sword - A Story of the Thirty Years' War • G.A. Henty
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