Mina is the one for you, you want the epaulets of a colonel.
He imagined himself there in the garden with this district maiden in various and most remarkable situations; then his mistress Mina supplanted the maiden's place.
On that spot one understood why the view of Denali from Lake Minchúmina is the grand view, for the west face drops abruptly down with nothing but that vast void from the top to nigh the bottom of the mountain.
This only was used as a safeguard where a stockholder of Mina Grande began to get peevish because the holes in the hillsides of Sonora produced nothing.
Mina and I have both had the shawl and the letter in our hands--and (what was there besides?
Mina had not brought it on herself, this man's audacity would justify you in instantly dismissing him.
You and Mina shall lend me your valuable assistance, and discover whether they are thieves, drunkards, and what not, before I feel the smallest suspicion of it, myself.
Of course, when the popular party became in the ascendant, and Madame Mina received the appointment, alike unsolicited and unexpected, of governess to the queen, the afrancesados set up a yell of horror and consternation.
One day he created some amusement by crying out "Mina wants his breakfast dinner.
After he had had some food he said "Mina wants clean water.
A lady in India sends me some interesting notes about a mina bird which she obtained possession of while travelling in the Presidency of Madras.
The mina was subdivided into 100 drachmae, and the drachma into 6 obols.
This last was the original mina introduced by Solon, which gradually gave way to the light mina of half its weight.
During the Greater Pilgrimage the cauldron seethes with heat and humanity, and surges over into Mina and Arafat.
The height of Abu Kobeis overlooks the eastern quarter of the town, whence hills of granite stretch to the holy places, Mina and Arafat, enclosed by the ramparts of the Jebel Kora range.
Mina is a new hand and cannot do anything without me to direct her.
Just take your seat at the kitchen table with your writing weapons, and while you superintend Mina fill up the odd snatches of time with the labors of your pen.
Here,' said I, 'let me direct Mina about these matters, and write a while yourself.
You have done bravely,' said I, as I read over the manuscript; 'now you must direct Mina a while.
At this Mina giggled, and we both laughed to see her merriment at our literary proceedings.
I must get up and go down and see if Mina is getting breakfast.
So again Hipponicus (13) had six hundred slaves let out on the same principle, which brought him in a net mina (14) a day without charge or deduction.
If a gentleman's servant, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
If that maidservant has died, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
If he has made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
If a man has taken an ox on distraint, he shall pay one- third of a mina of silver.
Cutting down trees-- assessment of damage, half mina of silver per tree, 59.
If he has died of his blows, he shall swear, and if he be of gentle birth he shall pay half a mina of silver.
If the ox has pushed a man, by pushing has made known his vice, and he has not blunted his horn, has not shut up his ox, and that ox has gored a man of gentle birth and caused him to die, he shall pay half a mina of silver.
If a man of gentle birth has struck the strength of a man of gentle birth who is like himself, he shall pay one mina of silver.
If a man without the consent of the owner of the orchard has cut down a tree in a man's orchard, he shall pay half a mina of silver.
If he has caused a poor man to lose his eye or shattered a poor man's limb, he shall pay onemina of silver.
If he be the son of a poor man, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
If there was no dowry, he shall give her one mina of silver for a divorce.
If he is a poor man, he shall give her one-third of a mina of silver.
If that woman has died, he shall pay half a mina of silver.
But when the Marchioness left Spain in the suite of the Queen-mother, Isabel never made an enquiry after her, receiving Madame Mina with just the same degree of apparent affection that she had shown to her preceding governess.
He told down the money instantly, {and} gave me half a mina besides to spend.
In an instant Mina was pleased; she detected an unexpected but pleasant friendship between Mr Disney and the youth.
At this peremptory summons Lady Flora left Theo, by whom she had halted, and followed Mina through the door.
Mina snappishly, as she stepped out into the garden, followed by Mr Neeld.
NEELD When Mina Zabriska brought back the news from Fairholme, and announced it with an intensity of significance which the sudden aggravation of an illness long known to be mortal hardly accounted for, Major Duplay grew very solemn.
Mina had been in that state of mind before Cecily came on the scene; it was natural now in Lady Evenswood.
The balance was turned in favor of Blent by the sight of a man who was associated in his mind with it--Sloyd, the house-agent who had let Merrion Lodge to Mina Zabriska.
What Janie hinted and Iver did not discard was a view which found some supporters; and where it was entertained, poor Mina Zabriska's character was gone.
He had told Cecily everything; he had told Janie enough; he had yielded to an impulse to write a line to Mina Zabriska--because she had been so mixed up in it all.
So he had told Mina that he must be on the spot, and that henceforward the country and the Continent would know him only in occasional days of recreation.
Yes, he was in love; and he recognized the impasse as fully as Mina herself, although with more self-restraint.
But Mina broke out impatiently-- "No, no, that had nothing to do with it.
For a minute or two longer Mina endured the suspense, though it seemed more than she could bear.
He spoke in brusque tones, and he looked at Mina as if he did not know what she might be doing there.
She had tried to do what was right--at what sacrifice Mina knew; the reception of her offer Mina knew.
In those earlier days he had one confidant, one accomplice, in Mina Zabriska.
Then came the first, saying, ' Master, your minahas earned ten minas more.
And the second came, saying, 'Master, your mina has earned five minas.
And he said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.
Mary hastened to inform Mina that there were bushels of ripe blackberries in the pasture.
Mina said that they would be gone before that time, and insisted that they go at once.
Mina hurried to tell Jane, and almost breathlessly suggested that they go and get them before anybody else found them.
The camels are frequently mentioned, and we learn that one was worth a mina and a third.
There is nothing to show for whom or why the list was drawn up, but if the total is correct, we learn that a royal mina was worth one mina forty-six shekels of the ordinary standard.
A three-year-old ox was worth half a mina of silver.
We read:(758) Two-thirds of a mina belonging to A and B are given to a free woman with which to trade.
M590) Houses in Assyria sold for from half a mina up to twelve minas; but as long as we are so ignorant of the form, nature, and dimensions of the house and its adjuncts, the information is of very little interest.
On the night of the 28th we were encamped in pitchy darkness in a narrow valley at the head-waters of the North Fork of the Mina Pusa.
First at the head-waters of the Mina Pusa, in July, '76; last in the valley of the Milk River.
He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,{10 minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural laborer.
He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.
The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.
Despotism first invaded the Coast in 1807, when King Osai Tutu Kwámina pretended a wish to recover the fugitive chiefs Chibbu and Aputai.
At times a horrid braying denoted the royal titles, and after every blast the liege lord responded mechanically, 'Kwámina Blay!
This hope, however, was not destined to be gratified by Madame Ely, who made her appearance just as Mina ceased speaking.
As Mina had said, she appeared delighted to see Flora, and told them that tea would be ready for them in a moment.
Mina and I are great walkers, and shall probably go for a walk in the country with Mr. Blake.
It was now high time for them to think of returning, as the gates of the villa were about to be closed; but the evening was still so lovely that Mina declared it would be a sin to go home so soon.
Mina thanked their cavalier and gave him a couple of pauls, when he took off his hat, courteously wished them buon viaggio e felice notte, and returned to the convent.
Mina and Flora were fond of Rome for both of these reasons.
Mina and Flora could hardly suppress their laughter at the thought that the old lady should only then have arrived at the knowledge of that long evident fact.
A stroke of the pen, and you snatch therewith the poor unhappy Mina from the claws of the villain into the arms of the most honored Count--as observed, only a stroke of the pen.
Mina sat there, pale and lovely as the first snow which often in the autumn kisses the last flowers and then instantly dissolves into bitter water.
Mina with a flower-wreath in her hair floated by me, and smiled kindly upon me.
I have laid my hand on a letter from Mina of this date, which I still retain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
