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  • It lies 'atween yer lordship an' mysel '-- i' the meantime. "

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • "Well, well, let Belle alane, or I'll be puttin 'mysel' in Tam's place," and poor Tam could only grin with a very red face.

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • It's your natur 'to think I'm jealous; a better woman would know I'm _sick_ -- sick wi' shame an 'scorn o' mysel '.

    I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "Doitered auld body!" exclaimed my wife, "did ye think I was meanin 'mysel'?"

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

  • Gin I canna mak 'mysel' fit for kirk or manse, my name's no

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • [Page 57] tenderly, for it was the thocht of a 'ye riskit for the like of me at the three roads, that made me consider wi' mysel 'that I've aiblins been turning my back a' my wilfu 'life on love that's bigger than a man's deservings.

    Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough 1873

  • "It's a nice room, this is; a gude fire-place and an open bed, and you can pack awa a 'those books and pictur's -- they dinna look like vera improving ones -- and I'll put my kist i' that corner, and just mak 'mysel' quite comfortable."

    A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • That was a gey big word, min 'ye; it's langidge I wadna venture for tae make use o' mysel ', forbye a south-countra dowager.

    Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

  • 'Man, I fin' mysel 'jist like a muckle colley (sheep-dog),' he said.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • I'm affrontet wi 'mysel' 'at I had been sic a brute o' a man to ye.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

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