Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: selves
IPA transcription: [s'ɛlvz]
Usage examples
  • Only our three selves, and one old friend of mine to make up four.
  • In our idle hours we always improved our higher selves by ratiocination and mental thought.
  • All that the facts require is that the power should be both other and larger than our conscious selves.
  • It stands to pussy in the same relation that indoor croquet, billiards, or reading a book in bed does to our noble selves.
  • He who therefore can invent With what more forcible we may offend Our yet unwounded Enemies, or arme Our selves with like defence, to mee deserves No less then for deliverance what we owe.
  • Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day, will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in the one case, the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.
  • Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge our selves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
  • "There is society where none intrudes;" and for most men sympathy with their imaginary selves is a powerful and dominant emotion. True memory offers but a meagre and interrupted vista of past experience, yet even that picture is far too rich a term for mental discourse to bandy about; a name with a few physical and social connotations is what must represent the man to his own thinkings.