Yourself

Examples

• Remember what I told you on the moor--and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Hush, hush, ma'am; pray keep yourself quiet,' replied the bodyguard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Don't be afraid of me: you needn't squeeze yourself back into your corner like that. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Scull it is, pardner--don't fret yourself--I didn't touch him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You have made yourself too clear. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You are not going to introduce yourself to Mr. Darcy! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Miss Clack, will you have the goodness to explain yourself? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Bring it yourself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Walk in, sir, and make yourself at home. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Go muck yourself, he said in English and then, in Spanish, to the armored car driver. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Let yourself into the garden, and make your way in by the conservatory door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Speak up like a man, since you are a man, and tell us about yourself and this Combination. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Why you are so certain you cannot explain to yourself, but you know it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Well, well, said he, do not make yourself unhappy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You have been going often yourself, then, lately? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Adrian exclaimed that the rudder was gone;--We are lost, cried Clara, Save yourselves--O save yourselves! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Name whom you will, in the fiend's name, and please yourselves. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I should hope you gentlemen of the army may find many means of amusing yourselves if you give your minds to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You would not have them abused; but you don't want to have anything to do with them yourselves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• You hate each other as you hate all else except yourselves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• To work a lot of power over you and you not know it, knowing as you think yourselves, would be almost worth laying out money upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You can see for yourselves that some one is there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You mustn't give yourselves airs; you must be meek and humble, my blessings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And your slaves, see that ye feed them with such food as ye eat yourselves, and clothe them with the stuff ye wear. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Don't grieve and fret when I am gone, or think that you can be idle and comfort yourselves by being idle and trying to forget. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It has been fitted up with every attention to substantial comfort; perhaps to a little elegance besides; but of that you shall judge for yourselves. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Divert yourselves, he said and grinned. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You can see for yourselves the state in which I was left. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Rufus