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I forgot that he against whom I harbored such thoughts was my only brother; I forgot my self-offered trial of our powers with Helen; I forgot every thing—every thing but the fiery feeling of revenge.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various

They cheered old White Calf, self-offered champion, knowing that he had death in a hundred blankets at his back.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

Here then is come a crisis, this of Olynthus, self-offered to the state, inferior to none of the former.

From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Kennedy, Charles Rann