ainsel

"Captain, come back," said a little fat roll-about girl of six, holding up her mouth to be kissed; "come back and I'll be your wife my ainsel '!"

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

"But your ainsel '-- your own self told me so this minute."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

"Just go up to the lodge and tell Mr. Brown I'm -- weel, I'll just attend to that sma 'matter my ainsel'."

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

"Ye wadna gang to the infairmary yer ainsel ', an' tak 'charity."

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

It's just a sma 'matter I can attend to my ainsel'.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

Tammy, poignantly conscious of being of no practical use, sat on Auld Jock's grave, firm in the conviction that Bobby would return to that spot his ainsel 'And Ailie, being only a maid, whose portion it was to wait and weep, lay across the window-sill, on the pediment of the tomb, a limp little figure of woe.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

"Sittin 'upon a stane by' is ainsel '," added Ailie.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

But David, though the pictured countenance was resolute enough, always put in a shrewd and cautionary amendment, whenever Stewart came down the room, stiffened by the counsel of Angus, "Mind ye, laddie, when ye tak ', that the mon wha tak's slidd'ry serpents to tussle wi' 'em, he haes nae hand to use for his ainsel 'whilst the slickit beasties are alive; and a deid snake serves nae guid."

All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

I will jist be askin 'him what has Cher-r-rmany done for this country or for any country but her ainsel?

The Major Ralph Connor 1898

She can speak her ainsel 'when she wants, and she ton't want; for she'll stop in ta galley the noo till we get pack to Glasgie and goo pefore ta magistrates aboot it.

Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870