Miss Lydgate, Miss de Vine, little Chilperic andyours truly were bridesmaids, with the Warden to give the bride away.
1951, C.S. Forester (novel), James Agee (screenplay),The African Queen, spoken by Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart):
Nobody in Africa, butyours truly, can get a good head of steam on the old African Queen.
1972 August 2, Arthur Mason, “Ol’ Magic Fingers: Karloff Was ‘Nicest Gent of Them All’”, inOregon Journal, Portland, Ore.,→OCLC, section 2 (Home and Family),page 1, column 2:
Vera introduced us, and Boris was interested to hear I was a masseur. He mentioned that he had gotten a massage several times a week when he was in Hollywood—so, before you could say “Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt,”yours truly offered the man who had made more people shiver and shake than any man alive a massage on the house.
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