1. The unification of self-improvement and self-devotion is the requirement for the teachers at present to meet and the great hope that General Secretary Jiang Zemin places on the youth.

2. Then Alcestis, with a generous self-devotion, proffered herself as the substitute.

3. How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled to the earth by his very self-devotion!

4. Hetty had earned a sort of consideration, that had never before been enjoyed by her, through the self-devotion and decision of her recent conduct.

5. Deerslayer yielded himself a prisoner with a dignity that was a remarkable as his self-devotion.

6. "Love of city" is an abstract conception concerning about city's self-devotion and city's culture humanity, which involves city's care and solicitude to people.

7. He firmly believes that one should live in truth and self-devotion.