Example Sentences

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In all this manifold work which Mr. M�ller did he was, to the last, self-oblivious.

From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)

When I am sleeping under the daisies in the lonely churchyard, you will say to yourself, He was my friend, my more than brother: he loved me with a loyal and self-oblivious devotion.

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer

Ramsey stared again and suddenly fell into that soft, rippling laugh, keen, merry, self-oblivious, which forty excusing adjectives would not have excused to her nurse.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

The self-oblivious elation with which the slim lass gave her eyes and mind to everything except her own footing caused him to keep his chief watch on her.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

For thou hast earned a mighty boon, The truths which wisest poets see 85 Dimly, thy mind may make its own, Rewarding its own majesty, Entranced in some diviner mood Of self-oblivious solitude.

From The Daemon of the World by Shelley, Percy Bysshe