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I can compare my livry buttons to the stars, or the clouds of my backopipe to the dark vollums that ishew from Mount Hetna; or I can say that angels are looking down from them, and the tobacco silf, like a happy sole released, is circling round and upwards, and shaking sweetness down.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

I can compare my livery buttons to the stars, or the clouds of my backr pipe to the dark vollums that ishew from Mount Hetna; or I can say that angles are looking down from them, and the tobacco-silf, like a happy soil released, is circling round and upwards, and shaking sweetness down.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

'Tis a blessed thing that there are such a many things in this world a-restin 'on a body's lone silf.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

Captain Fronte's own silf, he is, as loike as two peas.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

He'd foight fer ye till he died, av he didn't git killed, an 'it's nivver would he shoot anybody at all, at all, onless it wur in silf-definse.

Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905

But whin I read about these social affairs in Kentucky, I sometimes wish some spool cotton salesman fr'm Matsachoosets, who'd be sure to get kilt whin th 'shootin' begun, wud go down there with a baseball bat an 'begin tappin' th 'gallant gintlemen on th' head befure breakfast an 'in silf definse.

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

'Th' situation is such, 'he says,' as to be intol'rable to a silf-rayspictin 'Englishman,' he says.

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Th 'wicked, ugly little eyes, th' crooked nose, th 'huge graspin' hands, tell th 'story iv this miscreant's character as completely as if they were written in so manny wurruds, while th' artist, with wondherful malice, has painted onto th 'face a smile iv sickenin' silf-complacency that is positively disgustin '.

Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

'Tis a good thing for Fr-rance that there ar-re silf-sacrificin 'men that don't undherstand her language, to presint her vicious nature to th' English an 'American public.

Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Coort, an 'the other on his blessed silf -- everlastin'ly playing Saysar an' Alexandrier rowled into a lump.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900