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Sentences starting with ours

Ours had a trying time of it. [5]
Ours have amounted to sixteen thousand dollars and some cents up to this time. [5]
Ours was the tense excitement of primitive man in chase: the quarry which had threatened to elude us was again in view, and not unlikely to fall into our hands. [9]
Ours was a reasonably comfortable ship, with the customary sea-going fare --plenty of good food furnished by the Deity and cooked by the devil. [5]
Ours was a pleasure excursion; therefore we stayed with that bird an hour and made the most of him. [5]
Ours is the only one, however, that is venturing on what is called "the long trip"--that is, out into Syria, by Baalbec to Damascus, and thence down through the full length of Palestine. [5]
Ours is the only blame from which he shrinks: we alone can dare to speak our opinion to him. [10]
Ours is a noble house, and stretches a long way back into antiquity. [5]
Ours is a nice ship, roomy, comfortable, well-ordered, and satisfactory. [5]
Ours may show it when the time comes, if it ever does come. [6]

Sentences ending with ours

And when do you think she will be ready for a drawing- room--Her Majesty Queen Victoria's, or ours? [11]
The whole business world, as we know it, is crooked, and if we don't cut other people's throats, they'll cut ours. [9]
We know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity; it is where his opinion differs from ours. [5]
We know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours. [5]
It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
The garrison fled, we pursued; Jargeau was ours! [5]
The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making, and not of ours. [7]
The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making and not of ours. [7]
We look indulgently upon their failings, even as they do on ours. [9]
We gave them up without an effort at recovering them, and cursed the lying books that said horses would stay by their masters for protection and companionship in a distressful time like ours. [5]

Short sentences using ours

The Augustins was ours. [5]
The gold is ours. [11]
The Matterhorn was ours! [5]
Ours? [2]

Sentences containing ours two or more times

On this point we fully agree with the Judge, and when he shall show that his policy is better adapted to prevent amalgamation than ours, we shall drop ours and adopt his. [7]
We have but to march!--on the instant--and they are ours, Paris is ours, France is ours! [5]
In spite of the Greek, ours you are and ours you will remain. [10]
At the time that she wanted to take Paris and could have done it with ease if our King had but consented, she said that that was the golden time; that, with Paris ours, all France would be ours in six months. [5]
Your clergymen speak of 'the Lawd,' ours of 'the Lord'; yours speak of 'the gawds of the heathen,' ours of 'the gods of the heathen. [5]
To take the life of one of their prisoners on the assumption that they murder ours, when it is short of certainty that they do murder ours, might be too serious, too cruel, a mistake. [7]
And it may be ours, yet not ours. [11]

More example sentences with the word ours in them

Remember me to your husband and tell him, his life may be valuable; but ours are not wisps of straw. [10]
About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered. [2]
She said she would be carried before the gate in the morning, and in half an hour Paris would be ours without any question. [5]
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. [7]
And if the wine to lip she raise, With morsel of my bread; Then as we loved in ancient days, These lands of ours shall wed. [11]
I fear he will have the laugh on us, for ours is not ready. [11]
I don't know why marriage should suddenly have become such a mockery and failure in our time, but I know that it is, that ours hasn't been such an exception as I once thought. [9]
The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it. [2]
We are pretty well aware that ours is not an ideal state of society, and should be so, even if the English who pass by did not revile us, wagging their heads. [4]
The French line was wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us on both sides. [2]
Mr. Scherer was very proud of it all, and ours was a sort of triumphal procession, accompanied by superintendents, managers and other factotums. [9]
So they will, very probably; but my curiosity is excited about this little boarder of ours, and my reader must not be disappointed, if I sometimes interrupt a discussion to give an account of whatever fact or traits I may discover about him. [6]
In this modern version of ours, the fathers throng about another than Horatius after the session of that memorable morning. [9]
I was brought up to believe that patriotism had an element of sacrifice in it, but I can't see ours. [9]
We climbed far up on the mountain side and went to work on a little rubbishy claim of ours that had a shaft on it eight feet deep. [5]
You'll pass about twenty-five in the next fifteen minutes, and you'll recognize ours when you see it--and if you don't, you can yell down and ask. [5]
We found gold too; but the treasure-box was the chief thing; and we made it ours after many a hard day. [11]
All this was told in a whisper; only a thin wall of wood parted Ursula's chamber from ours. [10]
Our General trusts to your honour, and you to ours, Monsieur le General. [11]
They only surrender to us what they gave us for a consideration long, long ago; what they have not now asked for, struggled or cared for; what has been thrust upon them, not less to their astonishment than to ours. [7]
We can't learn to understand much of their language, but the dog, the elephant, etc., learn to understand a very great deal of ours. [5]
She was coming to pass a week at the Hall, her parents, whose place was next to ours, having gone to Philadelphia on a visit. [9]
They have assumed to make a national constitution of their own, in which of necessity they have either discarded or retained the right of secession as they insist it exists in ours. [7]
I owe it to her, and the purple--the purple is ours! [10]
Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you! [5]
But ours refuses to do business by business ways, and sticks to ham and lemonade. [5]
But I wish to beg of you, if you have anything of this nature to say to her, you will take her feelings into consideration as well as ours. [9]
He is said to be more Napoleon's man than ours, and he is always advising the Minister. [2]
His he assumes to be a national party, ours a sectional one. [7]
Court proceedings make tiresome reading, and if those who have been over ours have not arrived at some notion of the simple and innocent method of the new Era of politics note dawning--they never will. [9]
Example, from a Thug's testimony: "We passed through to Kurnaul, where we found a former Thug named Junooa, an old comrade of ours, who had turned religious mendicant and become a disciple and holy. [5]
I think that this declaration to improve this orthography of ours is our family cancer, and I wish we could reconcile ourselves to have it cut out and let the family cancer go. [5]
Did you ever think, Robert," he added, "that this breathing of ours is a labor, and that we have to work every second to keep ourselves alive? [11]
I, for one, think we had better wait and see how high the Baptist spire is before we run ours up. [4]
Now this whole thing was a practical joke, and the robbers were personal friends of ours in disguise, and twenty more lay hidden within ten feet of us during the whole operation, listening. [5]
Did we notify them of this sage view of ours when we borrowed their money? [7]
The widow followed their conquering march with a proud eye, and every now and then Rowena said to herself with deep satisfaction, "And to think they are ours--all ours! [5]
They had broken their bond, though we had fulfilled ours, and I held myself justified in doing what I had done for our cause and for my own life. [11]
During three hours the tide ebbed and flowed, flowed and ebbed; but at last La Hire, who was now come, made a final and resistless charge, and the bastille St. Loup was ours. [5]
The blood of the soldiers'll be on his head, not ours. [9]
Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information. [2]
He had done the rare thing: he had trusted absolutely that class of woman who is called a "rag" in that far country, and a "drab" in ours. [11]
Thus, then, by the operation of this mobocratic spirit which all must admit is now abroad in the land, the strongest bulwark of any government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed--I mean the attachment of the people. [7]
He dwelt upon the fact that his saddle was new and ours were old, and the advantages that would accrue to us from the exchange. [4]
I judged that the cake was ours, and by a large majority. [5]
He came from that higher world to ours, but only a vague memory of his former home was permitted, lest he should compare his present abode with the old one and scorn it. [10]
It stated that that daughter of ours had gone to her long sleep. [5]
I am persuaded that a too exclusively porcine diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair, which is borrowed from the animal whose tissues these stiff-bearded compatriots of ours have too largely assimilated. [6]
He wrote: "More than once I have taken the skeleton of that comedy of ours and viewed it with tears..... [5]
Now verily I tell you we will not budge until this place is ours. [5]
It has been taught in German universities, and it will be taught in ours whenever we shall succeed in inducing your friends, by one means or another, not to continue endowing them. [9]
For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn her gown, at 2 mills a day--7 weeks' work; but ours earns hers in forty days--two days _short_ of 7 weeks. [5]
What do you suggest concerning this siege of ours? [11]
The circumstances were such that the victory was bound to be ours. [10]
He had yet some distance to go, alas, ere he was to begin that sturdy battle for the right for which his countrymen and ours will always bless him. [9]
These were the snatches which I heard as I picked my way onward with exaggerated fear:-- "Gentlemen, the Mississippi is ours, let the tyrants who forbid its use beware! [9]
One bright name shall be ours on high, if we are not permitted to be united here; bear in mind that I still cherish my old sentiments, and the poet will mingle the names of Elfonzo and Ambulinia in the tide of other days. [5]
I can still see the torchlight procession with which the Berlin students honoured the beloved and respected brothers, and which we watched from the Grimms' windows because they were higher than ours. [10]
However, I dare say you still think that your divinity and ours are as far asunder as the east from the west. [10]
I did n't say a new faith,--said the Little Gentleman;--old or new, it can't help being different here in this American mind of ours from anything that ever was before; the people are new, Sir, and that makes the difference. [6]
If they have retained it, by their own construction of ours, they show that to be consistent they must secede from one another whenever they shall find it the easiest way of settling their debts, or effecting any other selfish or unjust object. [7]
There was no restlessness, no anxiety, no show of doubt, for these men of ours were old fighters, and they trusted their leaders. [11]
This sort of religion resembles ours. [5]
Pardon these polysyllabic reflections, Beloved, but I never contemplate these dear fellow-creatures of ours without a delicious sense of superiority to them and to all arrested embryos of intelligence, in which I have no doubt you heartily sympathize with me. [6]
I desire to recommend it to such as find the other systems too difficult, exacting, and irksome for the uses of this fretful brief life of ours. [5]
Some of these questions are ours. [6]
If our principle, put in practice, would wrong your section for the benefit of ours, or for any other object, then our principle, and we with it, are sectional, and are justly opposed and denounced as such. [7]
There were some prophets and patriarchs there that ours ain't a circumstance to, for rank and illustriousness and all that. [5]
With a belligerent pride Clark showed the way up the river one evening, the batteries of the town giving us plunging shots as we went, and ours at Point Levis answering gallantly. [11]
And such another powwow--thousands of bo's'n's whistles screaming at once, and a crew like the populations of a hundred thousand worlds like ours all swearing at once. [5]
We buy their potatoes (retail) at fifteen dollars a barrel; and those colored farmers buy ours for a song, and live on them. [5]
He was a passenger of ours, a resident of Arkansas City, and bound to Vicksburg to join his boat, a little Sunflower packet. [5]
A., almost exclusively ours, were thirteen paragraphs, without credit, taken verbatim from our books. [5]
If you see ours, hurry back and tell Chloris to call me, for I must go to the temple of Cypris. [10]
Once here she's ours, and they may cut each other's throats as they will, sweetheart. [11]
The feast-day is ours too; let us take advantage of this day of freedom. [10]
What page of ours that does not betray some weakness we would fain have left unrecorded? [6]
This memory of ours stores up a perfect record of the most useless facts and anecdotes and experiences. [5]
A library like ours must exercise the largest hospitality. [3]
This friendship of ours may seem to have been hastily hatched, but it must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. [11]
We had learned ours in one afternoon. [5]
A neighbor of ours hid six cans of rifle powder in the bake-oven of an old discarded cooking stove which stood on the open ground near a frame out-house or shed, and from and after that day never thought of it again. [5]
Our farm was ours by lease, therefore 'twas likewise his, to do with it as he would. [5]
Ye've just said ours are the higher, and with the same breath ye take it back. [5]
He lies in our graveyard; he is ours; and, being ours, let us protect his memory, as though he had not sought us a stranger, but was of us: of our homes, as of our love, and of our sorrow. [11]
He says Count Orlov never gave such a dinner as ours will be! [2]
I give this order in my brother's name; and tell them that what is ours is theirs. [2]
Victory was ours once to your thrice. [11]
We looked out on the world, as it were, from the same window, and I could not help thinking that ours, after all, was a large view. [9]
Katuti's steward has offered to sell a herd of cattle to ours, although the stock on Mena's land can be but small. [10]
A simple story, of which many a duplicate could be found in this country of ours. [9]
Think no worse of us because we adapt ourselves, more, perhaps, than is fitting, to the ways and ideas of the people among whom we have grown up, and in whose midst we have been prosperous, and whose interests are ours. [10]
And the second of those Fourths of July was not born, until four centuries later, in, Charles the First's time, in the Bill of Rights, and that is ours, that is part of our liberties. [5]
The stupid magnates of this Leghorn government can not understand that so large a steamer as ours could cross the broad Atlantic with no other purpose than to indulge a party of ladies and gentlemen in a pleasure excursion. [5]
All the details of their own religion are proven and established by miracles; the details of ours must be proven in the same way. [5]
There is plenty of room in ours. [10]
Another old friend of ours, Judge Abner Parkinson of Harwich, he who gave the sardonic laugh when Sam Price applied for the post of road agent, may often be seen in that Railroad Room from now on. [9]
After this talk of ours, I think these two young people went pretty regularly to the Church of the Galileans. [6]
A lady passenger of ours tells of a fellow-citizen of hers who spent eight weeks in Paris and then returned home and addressed his dearest old bosom friend Herbert as Mr. [5]
An exchanged general of ours leaving Richmond yesterday says two of Longstreet's divisions and his entire artillery and two of Pickett's brigades and Wise's legion have gone to Tennessee. [7]

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