Ours

Examples

• Your circle is rather different from ours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Famous clients of ours that got us a world of credit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He would like the wedding to be the day after tomorrow, quite privately; at the church of his parish--not at ours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But, in my opinion, it comes more in Dr. Watson's line than ours. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He infers from this, that their dress must, upon the whole, have been cheaper than ours; but the conclusion does not seem to follow. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Besides, no good-living woman--much less a purehappy spirit--would trouble amity like ours n'est-il pas vrai? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, A clerk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Do--now pray do let us settle this little difference of ours by word of mouth, if we can! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Run Simple (Ensign Simple, of Ours, my dear Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then if there be any city which may be described as master of its own pleasures and desires, and master of itself, ours may claim such a designation? Plato. The Republic.
• The small-arms of the enemy were far superior to the bulk of ours. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was lighted before ours was, Fairway continued; and yet every one in the country round is out afore 'n. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They have a higher right than ours. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In return, I will tell you some of those we have heard from ours. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He has consumed all ours that I can spare. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Oh, didn't she tell you about this new plan of ours? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• About fifteen hundred years before Christ, this camp-ground of ours by the Waters of Merom was the scene of one of Joshua's exterminating battles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Ours, of course. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Ours for his life. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It has never been violated, on their part or ours, till now. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Ours is a Copious Language, and Trying to Strangers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It made no difference to him who they were tonight and if it pleased the old man to have them be ours, he did not want to take them away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I cannot live long--but, again and again, I say, this moment is ours! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Mosaic laws are less pure than ours; but they are more strictly followed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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