Theirs

Examples

• If your crop comes shorter into market than any of theirs, you won't lose your bet, I suppose? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Sherman responded to this attack on his lines of communication by directing one upon theirs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is not merely an arbitrary decision of theirs, come to without reason. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For a time men have relapsed upon these national or imperial gods of theirs; it is but for a time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And such particular people as the Tollers are, they might have objected because some of our friends are not theirs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• All the apes had hair upon theirs but the black men were entirely hairless, with very few exceptions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There is no always either with our munitions or theirs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• 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.
• As she spoke, Mrs. March came and took her place among them, looking as if her holiday had not been much pleasanter than theirs. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Where the masters, however, really perform their duty, there are no examples, I believe, that the greater part of the students ever neglect theirs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I shall lay my plans so as to counteract or at least be prepared for theirs--that is all. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I had nowhere seen such faces as theirs: and yet, as I gazed on them, I seemed intimate with every lineament. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• My skill, greater in this one point than theirs, surprised and charmed them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• For they are not ignorant of antiquity like the poets, nor are they afraid of their enemies, nor is any madman a friend of theirs. Plato. The Republic.
• They consumed theirs at the depots. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Its nearness was such that, notwithstanding its actual smallness, its glow infinitely transcended theirs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The way the planes are beautiful whether they are ours or theirs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But for thee is reserved a long and lingering death, to which theirs were luxury. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They would find out that the blood in his veins was as free from the taint of meanness as theirs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not two people with inflammable natures like theirs. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Could not you lock your wheels into theirs, dearest? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They never talk of theirs to us, and they never talk of ours to us. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Such hope as theirs, we also may entertain! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I knew though that my ruse had worked and that temporarily at least Thuvia and Tars Tarkas were safe, and the means of escape was theirs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• 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? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They'd tell us to mind our own business, and they'd mind theirs. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Typist: Maxine