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With little or no belief in the possibility of either, they stood shivering on the banks of the Rubicon, that mythical river of irretrievable self-committal, hesitating to enter its turbid waters.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

Sue and Jude listened, and severally saw themselves in time past going through the same form of self-committal.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

The Captain, who may or may not have noted my anxiety, paid no heed either to my unfortunate self-committal or to the apologetic question with which I endeavoured to retrieve myself.

From One of My Sons by Green, Anna Katharine

This fellow, Peer Gynt, wins the love of Solveig, a woman essentially whole-hearted, who has no dread of self-committal, who surrenders self.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

O'Malley felt as though his decision was somehow an act of self-committal, almost grave.

From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon