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  • When on the third day the tooth-brush, nail-file, whisk-broom, etc., had been duly used, he asked: "Say, mister, air you always that much trouble to you'se'f?"

    More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

  • An 'all de tam you be poor man -- you know dat's true you'se'f;

    Humour of the North 1909

  • "If you isn't no dog, don't you take an 'tell me whut you is: you take an' keep it to you'se'f, 'cause I don 'want to listen to it!"

    Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907

  • 'Go' head an 'smoke all you kin stan', 'she say,' 'cause I want you injoy you'se'f when you pay call on me, 'she say.

    Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "Then you mus '' a 'made you'se'f mighty skimpish, 'cause _I_ ain't seen you!"

    Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907

  • No use cryin ', you can't help it -- dere's your duty to you'se'f --

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887

  • "If you'll not b'lieve what I told, den you go'n 'see for you'se'f."

    Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886

  • No use cryin ', you can't help it -- dere 's your duty to you'se'f --

    The Voyageur and Other Poems William Henry Drummond 1880

  • An 'all de tam you be poor man -- you know dat's true you'se'f;

    The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems William Henry Drummond 1880

  • You'll tear her down and make you'se'f a blame old fool.

    Old Creole Days 1879

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