we decide it should be open and one of us stepping into it found himself up to the mid leg of a sort
pron referring to a male subject ○ I was served by the manager himself. ○ The doctor has got flu himself. ○ Did your brother enjoy himself? □ he lives all by himself he lives all alone □ he did it all by himself he did it with no one to help him ○ Now he’s eight, we let him go to the shops all by himself.
him•self´
pron.
1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; — used as a subject usually with he; as he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as it is himself who saved himself. “But he himself returned from the quarries.” Judges iii. 19. “David hid himself in the field.” 1 Sam. xx. 24. “The Lord himself shall give you a sign.” Is. vii. 14. “Who gave himself for us, that he might … purify unto himself a peculiar people.” Titus ii. 14. “With shame remembers, while himself was one
Of the same herd, himself the same had done.” Denham. Himself was formerly used instead of itself. See Note under Him. “It comprehendeth in himself all good.” Chaucer.
2. One’s true or real character; one’s natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one’s right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as the man has come to himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as he sits or studies by himself. — To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.
1. An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; — used as a subject usually with he; as he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as it is himself who saved himself. “But he himself returned from the quarries.” Judges iii. 19. “David hid himself in the field.” 1 Sam. xx. 24. “The Lord himself shall give you a sign.” Is. vii. 14. “Who gave himself for us, that he might … purify unto himself a peculiar people.” Titus ii. 14. “With shame remembers, while himself was one
Of the same herd, himself the same had done.” Denham. Himself was formerly used instead of itself. See Note under Him. “It comprehendeth in himself all good.” Chaucer.
2. One’s true or real character; one’s natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one’s right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as the man has come to himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as he sits or studies by himself. — To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.
Mufasa tried to pull himself up the steep rocks. From above, Scar watched his brother struggle.
The scentence about “The Lion King”.
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