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  • En den I put on a frock en a sun-bonnet en fix 'myse'f up ter look lak a 'oman; en w'en Jeff seed me comin' he run ter meet me, en you seed 'im, -- fer I had be'n watchin' in de bushes befo 'en' skivered you comin 'down de road.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • "There's nothin 'between Miss Mirandy an' myse'f," replied Mormon with dignity.

    Rimrock Trail 1906

  • I'se dat proud o 'myse'f an' my ole marster dat gimme a start.

    The Man in Gray Thomas Dixon 1905

  • En den I put on a frock en a sun-bonnet en fix 'myse'f up ter look lak a 'oman; en w'en Jeff seed me comin' he run ter meet me, en you seed 'im, -- fer I had be'n watchin' in de bushes befo 'en' skivered you comin 'down de road.

    Hot-Foot Hannibal 1899

  • I admit that I was hungry on that occasion; I'd been savin 'myse'f up.

    The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

  • I don 'see no way but ter do some fergittin' myse'f.

    The Marrow of Tradition 1895

  • I's Baptis 'myse'f, an' I 'low hit's all devil's doin's.

    The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • But I des 'look at my two han's an' I say to myse'f, whut I been doin 'wid dese all dese yeahs -- tekin' keer o 'myse'f an' him, too.

    The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • When it came the old man said: "Well, I's Baptis 'myse'f, but seein' it's Crismus --"

    The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • Steadyin 'myse'f, I makes a wallop at him an' misses.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

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