And sat upon the nurse's knee, And I mysel were dead and gane, And the green grass growing over me!
I sewed his sheet, making my mane; I watched the corpse, mysel alane; I watched his body night and day; No living creature came that way.
Croudy, as he raised up his head from the spokes of the killing-stool; "I believe I'm turned mysel again!
However, I came something to mysel again, an' Davie he thought proper to ascribe it a' to his bit ragabash prayer.
When I had fairly made up my mind to tak a wife, I set mysel to the wark systematically.
Haud awa out an' see what they want, till I fling on a clean mutch an' an apron, an' mak mysel wiselike.
Meanwhile, I exerted mysel on the Sabbaths, to sing, wi' the greatest pith and clearness, the psalm tunes.
So, after I had looked about me for a week or two, I thought to mysel that I saw nobody doing better than the keepers o' wine and spirit vaults.
Mony a time I picture tomysel the confusion that wad tak place amang the women folk, when a party o' wild dragoons were seen scamperin in this direction.
When we cam in by Glasgow toun, We were a comely sicht to see; My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysel in cramasie.
And set upon the nurse's knee; And I mysel were dead and gane, And the green grass growing over me!
I have this moment left my wife; and I had a struggle to pass the water-dam, that shone in the mune to invite me to bury mysel and my grief in its still breast.
Weel, thinks I, this is really a fine pass I've brought mysel to!
Now, I'm vexed at mysel for having mooted it before ye.
Twenty times did I fondly convince mysel that it was a' but a crazed dream; and as often did the truth flash upon my mind, curdling my very bluid with shame and remorse.
I hae condemned mysel and the wife o' my bosom--my conscience and a burnin revenge hae wrought this out o' me; but what shall be the consequence thereof?
I sit and ponder it o'er and o'er, and Jeannie thinks perhaps that I am ill-tempered; but I canna bring mysel to tell her.
I think I would hae been comforted sooner," said Rab, "if I could hae broughtmysel to forgive Donald the wrang he has done me.
I didna dare to move in the darkness for fear I should get another fall, so I just prayed a' by mysel here, and I kenned weel ye would pray for me at hame, so I wasna afeard.
He often spoke to the gude-man and mysel o' spiritual things.
I'm muckle changed mysel frae the Donald I once was, and I owe the gude that is in me to your faither.
I should be jealous myselif he talked to the lasses.
But I woke, and find mysel here," she added, with a shudder.
Aw noan put mysel up for a boxin' match, aw con tell yo'.
If I were thee I'd ax mysel if I were young enugh to be a faither, that I would,' said the old woman.
When we came in by Glasgow toun We were a comely sicht to see; My love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysel in cramasie.
Though you've ta'en my young son's life, Ye may let mysel be.
I hae seen them mysel leave a reid strip on the sand an' the grey stanes--but the hoody craw durstna pick there!
I'm that disgustit atmysel 'at I canna luik ye i' the face!
It's shame o' mysel that gars me hate the place, mother!
I'm clean ashamt sometimes, whan I wauk up i' the mornin, to fin' mysel deein naething!
I teuk mysel weel ower the heckles, but I cudna mak oot 'at I cud a'thegither help it.
I ken by mysel he maun hae been missin me dreidfu'!
I micht du a heap to mak mysel mair like ither fowk!
I never jist set mysel to luik, but I dinna think I ever did tak notice o' a worm settin up that heid o' his oot o' a bog.
Steenie,' rejoined Kirsty solemnly, 'I wud gang oot o' my wuts mysel gien I didna believe that!
A' I can say is--'at I dinna think nearhan sae muckle o' myselas I did than.
Than it'll never be, or I maun hae a heap to blame mysel for.
Though you've taen my young son's life, ye may let mysel be.
If my seven sons were seven grey hares, And them to rin a race, And I mysel a good greyhound, I would gie them a chace.
O gin my seven sons were seven young hares, That rin round the castle wa, And I mysel a bluidy grewhund, I wad rise and worry them a'.
Seven braw sons hae I born To the gude lord o this ha; I wish that they were seven brown rats, To climb the castle wa, And I mysel a gude grey cat, To take them ane and a'.
If my seven sons were seven grey ratts, To rin frae wa to wa, And I mysel a good grey cat, I would bite their back a-twa.
Seven braw sons hae I born To the lord o this place; I wish they were seven hares To run the castle race, And I mysel a gude greyhound, To gie them a' a chace.
O seven fu fair sons I have born To the good lord o this place, An I wish that they were seven hares, To run the castle race, An I mysel a good gray houn, An I woud gi them chase.
Mysel will kame his bonny head, With a tabean brirben kame; And the Lord will be the bairn's father, Till Love Gregory come hame.
But hearing, as we often a' have done, of the great instancy that my gude-brother was in for a match tweesh her and James, I could na think of making mysel an interloper.
I wad rather gang into a king's chamber unbidden, than put mysel forrit, when I wasna needed, into the heavy presence of grief.
I got cauld mysel on Sabbath at the Kirk, and was trying the jam for my throat.
I am the silliest body mysel that was ever putten in a strait.
Roderick," he said, emphatically, "I daurna trust mysel to look about me.
Guid kens, I would have little thought o' mysel that am withered, and auld, and past my strength, if it werena for him.
I was aye trying to convince mysel that it micht be only a trick the first time, and this conviction gathered strength when I saw the lassie keep her health frae day to day; but I doubt, I doubt, something is gaun to happen now!
I wud be mysel nae mair, Filled o' the sole remeid, Slain by the arrows o' licht frae yer hair, Killed by yer body and heid!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mysel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
