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The pups was squirming and sliding o’er one the ’nother, carrying on something fierce, nipping at anything that moved, not caring if they was biting their brother or sister or even their own selfs.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Or, truth tolt, they don’t get upset by being odoriferous their own selfs.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

And the Oyo girls, they sit by that river now, and they looks at it for they mirror and sees them selfs.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The selfs, those showing one colour only, as white, yellow, crimson, purple, &c., are commonly called cloves.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

A great variety of colors in selfs and variegated forms.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)