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Sentences starting with theirs

Theirs began in the Fall with the New York Horse Show. [9]
Theirs was the soberer, profounder happiness of gratitude and wonder, too wise to exult, but which of itself is exalted; the happiness which praises, and passes understanding. [9]
Theirs not to reason why--but obey; and some of them, late as was the hour, were already travelling (free) towards the capital. [9]
Theirs not to reason why. [9]
Theirs were generous houses surrounded by shade trees, with glorious back yards--I have been told--where apricots and pears and peaches and even nectarines grew. [9]
Theirs had been a bitter fight, and Venters felt a strange sympathy for them. [13]

Sentences ending with theirs

She was very woman, and the look of the thing was not nice to her eyes, while it must belittle her in theirs. [11]
His heart bled with theirs. [7]
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? [6]
The shepherdess's ear was sharper than theirs. [10]
Much newly-erected woodwork was already removed, but the rich longest resisted having the axe put to theirs. [10]
It is our ultimatum, as that was theirs. [6]
They had always turned up their noses at our pretentions, you know; and I had fought back as well as I could by turning up mine at theirs. [5]
The family went to bed about dark every night, and as we were not invited to intrude any new customs, we naturally followed theirs. [5]
Take them, Melissa; they add less to your beauty than you to theirs. [10]
That was another theory of theirs. [4]

Short sentences using theirs

Eternal Life is theirs now. [14]
To that concert of theirs? [8]
Yours and theirs affectionately, R.W. [6]

Sentences containing theirs two or more times

The ancient Romans had theirs, the English and the French have theirs as well,--why should not we Americans have ours? [6]
She saw the difference between her carriage and theirs, her manner of wearing her clothes and theirs, her complexion and theirs. [11]

More example sentences with the word theirs in them

Hodder read every word of these, and all were in the same strain: at last they could perceive a meaning to religion, an application of it to such plodding lives as theirs . [9]
Caesar had come with a force by no means equal to theirs, and it might be possible to draw the mighty general into a snare. [10]
Because her plan was to raise the siege immediately, by fighting, while theirs was to besiege the besiegers and starve them out by closing their communications--a plan which would require months in the consummation. [5]
My field of usefulness is about trimmed down to tramps, budding authoresses, and that line of goods now; but don't you worry --I'll harry you on theirs while they last! [5]
Take example by us; we are content with our own faith and leave others to enjoy theirs in peace. [10]
But no, my uneasy spirit kept dragging me back at quarter-hour intervals; and always I saw Backus drinking his wine--fairly and squarely, and the others throwing theirs away. [5]
My own eyes turned with theirs to see the body of poor Weldon lying face downward in the water. [9]
Despite my attempt to hide this sense of superiority they were swift to discover it; and perhaps it is to my credit as well as theirs that they did not resent it. [9]
The thought ought to have restrained him from such base conduct; but the idea that he was avenging the wrong inflicted upon their father's honour, and thus upon theirs, urged him further and further. [10]
You will inform them that all propositions of theirs, not inconsistent with the above, will be considered and passed upon in a spirit of sincere liberality. [7]
You will inform them that all propositions of theirs not inconsistent with the above will be considered and passed upon in a spirit of sincere liberality. [7]
Your heads for theirs, you guards, if they escape. [10]
Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity. [2]
Such placidity as theirs would never understand the nature of my temptations, and I pictured to myself their horror and despair at my revelation. [9]
Peace fell upon the travelers like a garment, and although they had as much difficulty in landing their baggage as the early Pilgrims had in getting theirs ashore, the circumstance was not able to disquiet them much. [4]
What wonder that the sordid lights of work-day prudence should pale before the glory of a hope like theirs in the full splendor of its fruition? [5]
The rapidity of the Russian pursuit was just as destructive to our army as the flight of the French was to theirs. [2]
The Moors held the place twelve hundred years ago, and a staunch old castle of theirs of that date still frowns from the middle of the town, with moss-grown battlements and sides well scarred by shots fired in battles and sieges that are forgotten now. [5]
Some members of the orchestra would not part with theirs, and behind the saddle of many a mounted virtuoso or attendant was fastened a violin case or a shapeless bag which concealed some other instrument. [10]
We know that the opinions expressed will not be theirs, evolved out of their own feeling, but that they will be the cut-and-dried results of conventionality. [4]
She smiled upon the Marches, while Miss Dryfoos watched them intensely, with her eyes first on one and then on the other, as if she did not mean to let any expression of theirs escape her. [8]
I had mine, the king and his people had theirs. [5]
The look of the face went to David's heart--the kinship of pain was theirs. [11]
His appearance was the equal in roughness to theirs, his manner if anything was more democratic,--yet in spite of all this Stephen in them detected a deference which might almost be termed a homage. [9]
Our knapsacks were strapped upon our backs, but they had a sturdy youth along to carry theirs for them. [5]
They were all spent with the fatigue that comes from heaven to such misery as theirs, and they sat in a torpor in which each waited for the other to move, to speak. [8]
They believe his socialistic doctrines because he's a friend of theirs. [9]
Also for these, so often, is granted a greater love, which comes of the consecration of other lives to theirs. [11]
Jane, it ain't so much that these soles keep out of my way as me keepin' out of theirs. [13]
The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs. [6]
It was in singular contrast to the snapping fire which had been theirs all the days of his life till now--the snapping fire of action, will and design. [11]
He guessed what she was thinking--how different her own wooing had been from theirs, how concerning her courtship she had not one sweet memory--the thing that keeps alive more love and loyalty in this world than anything else. [11]
He was a self-contained and industrious young man, with crisp curly hair, cordial and friendly yet never intimate with the other employer; liked by them--but it was tacitly understood his footing differed from theirs. [9]
The other tradesmen seized what was theirs and made off with remarks appropriate to the occasion. [9]
It did not seem incongruous to Iberville and Gering to walk side by side; theirs was a superior kind of hate. [11]
The proprietors are rich, and very holy; but the wage they pay to these poor brothers and sisters of theirs is only enough to keep them from dropping dead with hunger. [5]
Indeed, no; his punishment is trivial compared with theirs. [5]
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [5]
And with renewed physical energy she began to experience once more a sense of fellowship with these free and daring spirits who sought to avenge her wrongs and theirs. [9]
She watched the people going to the Notary's office with their tributes and free-will offerings, and they seemed like people in a play--these days she lived no life which was theirs. [11]
They receive high pay, but theirs is a dismal life, for they must live apart from their species, because their commerce with the dead defiles them, and any who should associate with them would share their defilement. [5]
Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. [5]
I give this order in my brother's name; and tell them that what is ours is theirs. [2]
So I'm here on my business, and they're here on theirs. [11]
A favorite way of theirs is to play a friendly swindle upon the candidate. [5]
Among these inventions of theirs is one which is particularly popular with them. [5]
And these masters of mind used to wonder why it was my speech came out in the morning in the first person, while theirs went through the butchery of synopsis. [5]
What a span of life had been theirs who rested here! [9]
A close-fitting mail of flattened cells coats our surface with a panoply of imbricated scales (more than twelve thousand millions), as Harting has computed, as true a defence against our enemies as the buckler of the armadillo or the carapace of the tortoise against theirs. [3]
But he says of all great men: "The power which they communicate is not theirs. [6]
And when I noted that all were afraid of this man, and shrank and fidgeted in their seats when his eye smote theirs, my last poor ray of hope dissolved away and wholly disappeared. [5]
But theirs was not the ordinary year, nor the Church year, nor the fiscal year. [9]
They are yours, not mine, and for your family's sake if not your own you cannot in these cloudy days renounce this property which is so clearly yours and theirs. [5]
Their presence had not been discovered, and if they could but surprise the Indians the Fort might easily be theirs. [11]
The Eletto had no time to think of his mother; for scarcely had he given a solemn oath of loyalty to his comrades and received theirs, when Count Mannsfeld appeared. [10]
The house was no longer theirs. [12]
That damned military machine of theirs seems invincible--it keeps grinding on. [9]
Perhaps I have lived too long I have lived to see honourable, upright men deprived of what was rightfully theirs, driven from their livelihood by the rapacity of those who strive to concentrate the wealth and power of the nation into their hands. [9]
We got clothes like theirs, and wore them. [5]
All these have left their work and not their names, Why should I murmur at a fate like theirs? [6]
After the money left the hands of the men who gave it--Lavilette and the rest--it wasn't theirs. [11]
The King himself led Joan by the hand down the great hall to the door, the glittering multitude standing and making reverence as they passed, and the silver trumpets sounding those rich notes of theirs. [5]
He seemed to know everybody in the room, for he was kept busy nodding right and left at the tables until he came to theirs. [9]
If the horses knew theirs, we should not ride any more. [5]
The strollers, however, kept the place at theirs without difficulty; no one desired to come near them. [10]
What business is it of theirs? [9]
Would this absorbed isolation, this marvellous wild love of theirs, be the end of it all? [9]
But my motive is not theirs. [4]
No mother's mark is more permanent than the mental naevi and moles, and excrescences, and mutilations, that students carry with them out of the lecture-room, if once the teeming intellect which nourishes theirs has been scared from its propriety by any misshapen fantasy. [3]
No one was indifferent any more; and when the singers finished, the camp was theirs. [5]
There is sunshine in the face of all--a kind of Indian summer sunshine, infused with the sadness of a coming winter; and theirs is the winter of parting. [11]
It is detectable in every utterance of theirs when they are talking about us. [5]
So long as I reverence my own ideals my whole duty is done, and I commit no profanation if I laugh at theirs. [5]
They had a humble look, and when Huck prepared his pipe after the meal and was going to prepare theirs, they said no, they were not feeling very well--something they ate at dinner had disagreed with them. [5]
General Doby mingles his tears with theirs, and somebody calls him a jellyfish. [9]
Mr. Crewe took his seat in the popular assemblage next day, although most of the five hundred gave up theirs to the ladies who had come to hear his Excellency deliver his inaugural. [9]
When you take his living away from him you take theirs away too--and what have they done to you? [5]
We know how high our faith is beyond theirs. [10]
The Dutch captain here put his foot into the conversation, as his ancestors used to put theirs into the scale, when they were buying furs of the Indians by weight,--so much for the weight of a hand, so much for the weight of a foot. [6]
Although they acknowledged her leadership, Edith and Mary were sorry for Honora, for they knew that if her father had lived she would have had a house and garden like theirs, only larger, and beside a blue sea where it was warm always. [9]
We do not hang our grandmothers now, as our ancestors did theirs, on the strength of the positive command, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. [6]
He said a good many prominent citizens were going to have theirs in, and his price was a hundred and fifty dollars. [8]
The good Brants gave all their time and attention to vain endeavors to regulate Georgie; they said, with grateful tears in their eyes, that Eddie needed no efforts of theirs, he was so good, so considerate, and in all ways so perfect. [5]
And so we formed our guilds in opposition to theirs. [9]
It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. [7]
He could not dismiss the former, so they stayed; he did not know enough to dismiss the latter, so they stayed also, to his vast regret--and theirs. [5]
I knew they didn't know enough to examine him anyway, so I joined my prayers to theirs and the king turned the duty over to my professors. [5]
On the march, Delagarde, suspecting treachery to himself, not without reason, required of Rullecour guarantee for the fulfilment of his pledge to make him Vicomte of the Island when victory should be theirs. [11]
It was theirs, complete and paying large dividends. [11]
That he had been the tool of others, she knew, but it remained a question in her mind how clearly he had perceived the immorality of his course, and of theirs. [9]
The two had been living together lately, and this mutual cavern of theirs the Colonel sometimes referred to as their "premises" and sometimes as their "apartments"--more particularly when conversing with persons outside. [5]
But it will be something, I take it--a novelty in this world, I should say--to raise the fame of a private soldier above theirs, and extinguish the glory of their names with its shadow. [5]
Though inclined to be contradictory in his intercourse with his fellow-men, he was merry and jocose when his views were opposed to theirs. [10]
He began, and, as she gazed at him, it struck her how little he resembled his father and brother, though he was no less tall, and his head was shaped like theirs. [10]
They would feel, as I feel, that his life is so much nobler than theirs, and his burdens so much heavier, that they would go away ashamed of their criticism. [9]
My parents were Arians, and as my beliefs are the same as theirs the Bishop has driven me away as an outcast, finally and without pity. [10]
People not paupers are all eager to take what is theirs of right; but anything in the semblance of charity is a bitter pill to swallow until self-respect is a little broken down. [4]
The cowed veteran and the wavering recruit had drunk the spirit of war from her eyes and touched her sword with theirs and moved forward invincible--hence she was a sorceress. [5]
Such a people, and such achievements as theirs, compel homage. [5]
I was present, and not one word of theirs escaped my ears. [10]

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