feel oneself
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To look at Istanbul then was to feel oneself on the edge of a maritime culture of fresh fish and shrub-covered islands, where goats with metal bells pick their way around whitewashed churches.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
“To feel oneself held and cherished and accompanied, and yet to be alone,” he wrote.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2015
He has spent some years in England because he says that it is so comfortable to feel oneself secure among one's ancestors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Take, for example, what is M. Bergson's starting-point, his somewhat dazzling doctrine that to be is to last, or rather to feel oneself endure.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
And to feel oneself, is it not perhaps to feel oneself imperishable?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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