theirselves

Professor Owen and attendin 'the meetings on the hill at Windley and reading the books and pamphlets I bought there and from Owen, I came to the conclusion some time ago that it's a mug's game for us to vote for capitalists whether they calls theirselves Liberals or Tories.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

I was encurraged to do so also by the horful rumers as was spread about, weeks afore, as to threttend atacks on the sacred Show by some disapinted prottestens, I think they called theirselves, as hadn't bin inwited to the Bankwet, and so meant to prottest accordingly.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 Various 1876

They call theirselves the Righteous Rulers, and under their inspired leadership we are gonna drive the money changers outa the Temple.

Space Michener, James 1982

There was a bunch in Gastonia that called theirselves the Flying Dragons?

Oral History Interview with Roy Lee and Mary Ruth Auton, February 28, 1980. Interview H-0108. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1980

They ain't looking at what's going on up the road; they just call theirselves having a good time.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration

A few geezers an 'gals flipfloopin' in swings an 'a bunch o' dead ones on ol 'broad-backed work hosses that calls theirselves riders!

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

I'm gittin 'mighty tired now uv waitin' fur them that called theirselves warriors, but are nothin 'but old squaws in war paint.

The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods 1890

But that ain't the way men are going to call theirselves paid.

The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890

Their astonishment that "them as calls theirselves ladies" should be found burning and breaking, was always, in Winnington's ears, a touching thing, and a humbling.

Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885

I wouldn't ha 'thought it of a set who calls theirselves men.

The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens George Manville Fenn 1870