Example Sentences

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Did self-oblivious love ever shine more gloriously in the darkness of sorrow?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

But if He said this, what becomes of His right to the veneration of mankind, as the Perfect Example of the self-sacrificing, self-oblivious religious life?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander

There was a self-oblivious kindness in his murmur as he refused a seat.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

For thou hast earned a mighty boon, The truths which wisest poets see 85 Dimly, thy mind may make its own, Rewarding its own majesty, Entranced in some diviner mood Of self-oblivious solitude.

From The Daemon of the World by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The self-oblivious elation with which the slim lass gave her eyes and mind to everything except her own footing caused him to keep his chief watch on her.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington