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  • No, no ... it's a wonder they didn't think to steer you to a feller-countryman, at least - there's enough of English and our-selves hereabouts, God knows.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The People have proven to our-selves an ability to prosper without the “help” of organized criminals.

    Line in the Sand 2008

  • Then let us value our Humanity, and endeavour to imbellish it with vertuous Actions; by which means we shall be far from seting our-selves on the Level with mere Animals, much less giving them the

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Thus we walk'd and talk'd; we laugh'd and delighted our-selves; we dress'd and visited; we received our Friends kindly, and by them were generously treated in their turn: all which was to the Satisfaction of our endearing tender Parents.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Opportunity of making our-selves happy in her Embraces.

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • The praises given to those we really love, I believe, are more grateful to us than those conferred on our-selves.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Spiteful men say, that we women know not our-selves; know not our own hearts.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Fix our-selves in a house, and we, and our, Mr. Lovelace — Pray, in what light —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • You young ladies, proceeded he, have great ad-vantages in certain cases over us men; and this (which I little thought of till it came to be my own case) whether we speak for our kindred or for our-selves.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I arw, and swore We shall not disgrace our sister and our-selves, by courting your acceptance of her.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

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