He met the girls, and gave each one her self-chosen reward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Lens]

I believe we have individual purposes that are self-chosen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism] Reference

The hubris of a self-chosen cleresy will always tend to bring this on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A War on Science?] Reference

And what nobler than to be self-chosen executors of Heaven's vengeance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference

Are they gullible, naive to the point of complete self-chosen ignorance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbie Gennet: What Makes People So Susceptible to Fascism?] Reference

In the latter, his self-chosen clients may not prove wholly happy with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exchange on Black Nationalism] Reference

I hate calling you that, even though the moniker is self-chosen, I presume.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits in a Material World: A Multi-Blog Conversation] Reference

We insist upon security in prosecuting our self-chosen lines of national development.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Required learning is of little value compared to student inquiry into self-chosen courses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

His father is one of the few, self-chosen, those who resist and therefore remain themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

And, self-chosen I suppose, though really the best of no options, inspiration, or forethought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits in a Material World: A Multi-Blog Conversation] Reference

Now the tragedy of this story, I take it, is that the foolishness of this farmer was self-chosen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference

It is to be accounted for not as an inherited or inherent malady, but as a self-chosen perversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

Fortunately, he has abundant resources within himself for the entertainment of his self-chosen solitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

It is a self-chosen deafness of people who, I take it, blame nature for giving us one tongue and two ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

From the perspective of the Soul or Self, suffering can be self-chosen for important and positive reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Augustine, John Hick, David Griffin and Sri Aurobindo] Reference

The real person eventually shines through, and often is in contrast to the self-chosen, and self-serving, label.    From Wordnik.com.  [So much for moderation.] Reference

Obama's triumph reflects back to us our own new, self-chosen, collective belief, and reinforces it in the process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela Gerloff: A Whole New Reality] Reference

EC sends an email, quoting George Washington, the man who would not be king, on the day of his self-chosen retirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to Our Next President, From Our First President] Reference

As available as self-chosen single motherhood has been for decades, I don't see American society suffering as a result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Yaki: Jennifer Aniston, Murphy Brown and Single Motherhood: Is O'Reilly the New Quayle?] Reference

As the self-chosen title of their talk highlights, Schor and Moyer are colorful characters to discuss art and activism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lily Blau: The Cow of Art] Reference

"It was a signal triumph for the neurodiversity movement, the self-chosen name for the autism-rights brigade," New York explains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The autism rights movement gets coverage] Reference

When you feel that your activities are self-chosen, there's a sense of self-determination and freedom, which brings gratification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Robinson: The 3 Core Needs: Satisfy Them and You'll Be Happy] Reference

Moore, very wisely, played an entirely different character than Connery and acquitted himself well within his self-chosen parameters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: Casino Royale] Reference

In every compartment boasting a viewscreen, men and women watched fire blossom on the field of stars, XII Fulminata's self-chosen eulogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Never Sleeps]

If children chose to leave their blood-mother to go to another, self-chosen foster mother, that was permissible within the Laws of the Kin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvenbane]

The last stage is post-conventional in which the child's moral values should evolve into self-chosen actions that are based on individual's well-informed principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: The Psychology of Morality and Raising Moral Children] Reference

It is a poor sort of love which lavishes itself on self-chosen and, therefore, less irritating objects of charity, and is powerless to influence the home atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference

Only one thing spoiled it: the man in the middle stubbornly maintained his self-chosen orbit and ambled casually between numbers four and five of the right-hand file.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

Many of the study respondents are self-chosen and more likely to exist in problem spots.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network] Reference