“I think,” said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, “that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You’re not my father.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Be a man, my son,” said one priest.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— of or relating to me or myself especially as possessor, agent, object of an action, or familiar person
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Macmillan
— used for showing that something belongs to or is connected with you when you are the person speaking or writing
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Usage
4 uses of ‘my’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
167 uses of ‘my’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
244 uses of ‘my’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
479 uses of ‘my’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle