Example Sentences

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His ethic of aggressive vigilance seemed to be discredited, his self-sought image as Israel's superdefender was in shambles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes, were you dishonored and lost, to use your own words, my heart would only cling the more closely to you for your self-sought misery.

From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de

Time, too, added to his fear of discovery; but he could not but think that his self-sought isolation must be a challenge to the curiosity of each and all who knew of it. 

From The Man by Stoker, Bram

"We shall not eat breakfast bacon for some time, for fear of getting a slice of the editor of the Saturday Review, in his self-sought appropriate metempsychosis."

From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de

If indeed this burden had been self-sought or self-imposed, if his thoughts were suffered to dwell on himself and his own incapacity, he might well sink under its crushing weight.

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.