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
To feel oneself in harmony with God, to know that one is carefully seeking His will and making it one's first and highest duty to perform it.
From Our Lady Saint Mary by Barry, J. G. H.
Any one remembering Dickens's account of this prison, must shudder at the recollection of it, and it was sad to feel oneself in the midst of a place of such sorrow.
From First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 by Trotter, Isabella Strange
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