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
"It is a strange and almost bewildering thing to feel oneself adrift."
From Long Odds by Bindloss, Harold
Trust me, as one who has felt it, that it is far better to feel oneself unworthy than to learn to doubt or distrust the worthiness or constancy of another.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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