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  • "Ef you was to hold a dumb supper, Jude, we could go to the old Bonbright house itse'f -- ef we had any way to git in."

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • Yit now they's times it 'pears like it' u'd bu'st itse'f in two!

    The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics Various

  • Brederen an 'Sisterin: I done read de Bible from kiver to kiver, from lid to lid an' from end to end, an 'nowhar do I find a mo' 'propriate tex' at dis time, when de whole worl 'is scrimmigin' wid itse'f, dan de place whar Paul Pinted de Pistol at de Philippines an 'said, "Dou art de man."

    Best Short Stories Thomas L. Masson 1900

  • The only way for a man to live is jest to let time take care of itse'f.

    The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

  • "Much as ebber Congress itse'f could give, if it give you a penance for all your sarvins," suggested Wool.

    The Hidden Hand 1888

  • A Drake will let one coil itse'f round his baby an 'not take it off.

    The Desired Woman 1888

  • It's only a little matter of three thousand, but the way the scheme frames itse'f up, after I'm down an 'out, you'll have to break my partner before Wolfville's all your own.'

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • 'Whichever way she comes,' says Cherokee, 'good or bad, luck avalanches itse'f on a gent.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Also, itse'f and pony is constructed of bloo flames.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • For weeks, as I remarks, that tempest throws itse'f loose, an 'night an' day, what cattle keeps their feet an 'lives, comes driftin' on.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

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