32 Metaphors for yourselves

Am I to go?" "Please yourself," ses 'is wife.

His fellows had the ladies they did choose, And, well, you know here's no more maids than Maud: Yourself are all our store.

"What business is it of yours anyway?" "Ruffian yourself!" said Pat.

Omelet after omelet was despatched, trout was called for, bottle followed bottle, and when the parasite was gorged to satiety, he rose and said, "Signor Gil Blas, don't believe yourself to be the eighth wonder of the world because a hungry man would feast by flattering your vanity."

" "But you are yourself a noblea baron," I objected.

Through your loyalty you, then, know yourself to be kin to all the loyal.

And if you show yourself to be real Winsome and Chic I may be able to use you with the Troupe.

Yourself (not herself) was always a pleasant subject to her, calling out all her best sympathies in joy, and yet more in sorrow.

To express two relations so as to affirm the one and deny the other; as, "Captain, yourself are the fittest to live and reign not over, but next and immediately under the people.

You can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors.

How's the world usin' yourself? MRS.

I next asked him, "How could you so speak, when you are yourself a fraudulent dealer, an adulterer, and a devil?"

In a word, you believe yourselves to be the objects of our disinterested affection.

In the world you were only a canon; and because you were infected with the phantasy that you also had the keys of heaven, and thence the power of binding and loosing, you have inflamed your spirit to such a degree of madness, that you now believe yourself to be very God."

"Sir Max," she said, "if you allow yourself to become The Knight Doleful, I will not only cease having speech with you, but I will laugh at you.

Pozzo di Borgo, the great Russian diplomatist, and Hulsemann, the little Austrian diplomatist, repeatedly in 1817 and 1823, published that despotism is in danger, unless yourselves become a king-ridden people.

You proved yourself to be a Mithridates of white lead; while Ibut I say no more.

Because having had seven lessons of various sorts, and two rides, you do not feel yourself to be a brilliant horsewoman?

Had but the fates run kindly, at this day Yourself should be a king of orient fame, Chief of the princely house that bears your name.

"'You wish to have your puppets animated; you would have them become real actors and actresses,' said he, 'and yourself be the manager?

For (although your Ladiship resolv'd to keep it private) I beg leave to declare, for my own honour, that you are not only excellent for the time you spent in the practice of what I set, but are yourself so good a composer, that few of any sex have arriv'd to such perfection.

He and the Spring are scholars' favourites: What scholars are, what thriftless kind of men, Yourself be judge; and judge of him by them.

You who are here, says he, complaining of venality, are yourselves the agents of those who having estimated themselves at too high a price, are only angry that they are not bought.

And were yourself an honest man?

You are the chief abettor of that witch, Shore; you are yourself a traitor; and I swear by St. Paul that I will not dine before your head be brought me."

32 Metaphors for  yourselves