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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

Nothing is so delightful as to feel oneself understood.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

To leave the sharp intensity of the sunlight and to be suddenly dropped into a horrible pit, is to feel oneself rolled into a tight little ball, with every nerve as hard as a nail.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey