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Examples
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"Lay off yourse'f!" retorted Florette under her breath.
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Now, you go by yourse'f, alone like, an 'ask God to make you good, as you say you want to, an' he'll do it, sure. '
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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If you was to trust yourse'f to me things would be different.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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"You ain't eatin 'nothin' yourse'f, Howard," said Florette acidly.
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Barrier you're workin 'yourse'f to death here, in the sweet days of your youth.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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S'pose you come wit 'me an' do little hangin 'yourse'f.'
The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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"Mebbe you wouldn't be so anxious to show yourse'f, Jim Hart, on solid ground ef you could only see yourse'f ez I see you," said Shif'less Sol.
The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness 1890
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Hang on to the job you've set fur yourse'f, an 'thirty or forty years from now you'll be shore to reap a full reward, though it might come sooner.'
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For one thing, Dave's about as extemporaneous a prop'sition as ever sets in a saddle, an 'thar's times when you give Dave licker an' convince him it's a o'casion for joobilation, an 'you-all won't have to leave no' call 'with the clerk to insure yourse'f of bein' out early in the mornin. '
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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If we're left plumb alone with a band of them book-read shorthorns like I deescribes, you-all sees yourse'f, they're bound to go spraddlin 'East ag'in, an' report how darkened
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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