Out Teerts came, marveling as usual that the Big Uglies could find his unarmed and miserable self so dangerous.

It wasn't Labour which spoilt your day mate it was your miserable self.

Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!

Sometimes it seems to me that my younger self spent most of his time dreaming up things he could do to make my older self miserable.

The girl grew up in an abysmally impoverished environment, suffering constantly, nothing to touch but the close cold walls and her own miserable self.

There are times," she went on, "when one can't help thinking of one's own miserable self.

Then go out as your miserable self and stop quavering!

Nothing on this road but my miserable self and my black hat lying crushed in the dirt.

My kids save me from my miserable self.

He is, irrepressibly, his own miserable self.