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Example sentences for "mine"

Lexicographically close words:
mindfulness; minding; mindit; mindless; minds; mined; minefield; minefields; minence; minent
  1. If by reading these pages you have learned something new, your time has not been lost; nor mine in writing them.

  2. From that moment every word of mine was implicitly obeyed.

  3. Mine is this same 'improductivite slave' of the Ploszowskis.

  4. Souls alter not, and mine must still advance," said Browning.

  5. Is not this comparison of mine between the priesthood and the military caste interesting and logical?

  6. It is a way of mine to think on death in the midst of enjoyment.

  7. How perverse you are," replied Netz; "it was only a little joke of mine with the rabble.

  8. Blessed be God, mine eyes have seen the joyful day.

  9. O that my head were waters, and mine eyes fountains of tears, that I might bewail my barrenness and unfruitfulness in the church of God.

  10. You do not mean to show your goods until to-morrow; but I shall exhibit mine to-night.

  11. It is a mine in which anything may be had for a bribe and anything may be done without fear of punishment.

  12. Each group, driven from the lower and coarser tasks, has risen from mine to shop, from shop to store, and from the store into every avenue of business and professional life.

  13. It was not an ignorant or malicious friend of mine who said of a Jew, a man of scholarly attainment and a common acquaintance, "He is a pretty decent Sheeny.

  14. A boyhood friend of mine was appointed district physician in the upper Trenczin district, the most poverty stricken in Hungary, largely populated by these Kopaniczari.

  15. They are a great strain upon our political institutions," said Mr. Williams, himself once a Welsh miner, pushed out of the mine by the Slav and now one of the leading citizens of Streator.

  16. Deal with him firmly; punish him if punish we must; but let the man who steals a coal mine be not dealt with more leniently than the woman who picks up coal on the track.

  17. This is it: "Martin Horvat, aged forty-two, came to his death by a fall of rock in Mine No.

  18. In that city, every law which governs mining has been openly violated, and there is at least one mine in the place which is nothing but a deep hell-hole and is known as such by the men compelled to work in it.

  19. Fusiliers in the Redan salient had their initiation into mine warfare, a platoon being in the salient when the Germans blew up a mine without, however, causing any loss of life.

  20. They saw children playing, women working at their house work, and here and there a miner, his lamp on his head, going off to the mine for his work.

  21. No,” replied the little girl half shyly; “you live in mine because I lived here first.

  22. We came down unexpectedly for two days,” explained Mrs. Berry, “because I found that a dear old friend of mine was here.

  23. He would not have told them if they had asked, for his feeble mind was set on reaching the supposed mine before the men whom he thought were going to rob him of it.

  24. But gradually Pat had won him over, for in the veins of every bushman runs enough gambler's blood to make the sporting risk of a gold-mine very alluring.

  25. As a proof of this, the last time they had met, Pat had told the drover about a gold-mine he knew of in the Musgrave Ranges.

  26. I ascribe to certain other creatures a life like my own, because they manifest it by the same sort of indications by which mine is manifested.

  27. In the case considered in the text, that of concrete general names, his language and mine are the converse of one another.

  28. I find that their phenomena and mine conform to the same laws, and it is for this reason that I believe both to arise from a similar cause.

  29. It seems as if someone of mine belongs to it.

  30. An employee at a coal-mine in Ohio is reported to have died from overwork.

  31. I saw much of another visitor to the camp in the Crimea--an old acquaintance of mine with whom I had had many a hard bout in past times--the cholera.

  32. This was for the purpose of prospecting a mine on that river, said to be obtainable at an easy price.

  33. But no words of mine could induce them to bear their terrible sufferings like men.

  34. He who does such work as mine asks for no reward but his master's, and can take no bribe from another.

  35. But at the first glance, I said to myself, 'There is the complement of my own being; there is a woman whose soul is consumed like mine with a restless consciousness of the world's woes.

  36. Mine is a complete acquiescence in whatever fate may send me--a cheerful acquiescence.

  37. General Gordon, after spending a few days at Haifa, returned to Jerusalem, promising to bring his tents two months later and pitch them next to mine at Esfia on the summit of Carmel.

  38. They have no idea of fishing with a rod, and mine came to grief, so that I had no opportunity of casting a fly, but I think it not unlikely, from the way I saw the fish jumping towards evening, that they would rise to it.

  39. This chapel was gorgeously fitted up, thanks to the contributions of pilgrims whose heads must have been steadier than mine was.

  40. But mine host is, in this respect, a prudent man.

  41. I here interrupted mine host with the question, 'Whether it was Mr Ewson also who tormented me so much in the night with his flute-playing?

  42. The frightful vision of the unknown stood yet vividly before mine eyes.

  43. Hereupon I fell on my knees, with mine eyes uplifted to heaven, my hands folded in prayer, and all present mechanically followed my example.

  44. After I had worked in the salt furnace for some time, work was secured for me in a coal mine which was operated mainly for the purpose of securing fuel for the salt furnace.

  45. This could not last long; a constitution of iron strength could not endure such treatment, and mine was partially broken down by previous dissipation.

  46. One day while at work in the coal mine I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia.

  47. In the darkness of the mine I noiselessly crept as close as I could to the two men who were talking.

  48. As to cloth, mine is as honourable as ever a German usurper's livery.

  49. I told him that he would find a friend of mine waiting at Burton's Coffee-house this morning, and I doubt if many friends of mine will be seen abroad to-day.

  50. Once or twice a guest of mine has reached the calle by a rope, but the President's friends take precautions to-night," Don Martin remarked.

  51. Tries to fire the mine before things are ready?

  52. When you have a temperament like mine it's hard to deny yourself a pleasure.

  53. Well, you have got a good deal of mine already.

  54. First scourge yourself, then pay yourself out of the money of mine that you have in your custody.

  55. All this Sancho beheld, with admiration at his master's intrepidity, and said to himself, "This master of mine is certainly as valiant and magnanimous as he pretends to be.

  56. But see what cash you have of mine in your hands, and set what price you will on every stripe.

  57. Thou hast money of mine in thy hands: see how long it is since we sallied out last from home, and cast up thy wages by the month, and pay thyself.

  58. I am now convinced thou hast a mind to make all the money which thou hast of mine in thy keeping go for the payment of thy wages.

  59. Sancho; "were mine a water-thirst, or had I any liking to your cold comfort, there are wells enough upon the road.

  60. Now, in the name of wonder," quoth he, "can there be any body in the world so impudent as to say that this master of mine is a madman?

  61. Thou art a villain to impeach me thus; I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty Against thee presently, if thou dar'st stand.

  62. He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

  63. By computation and mine host's report I could not speak with Dromio since at first I sent him from the mart.

  64. A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats, And for the same he promis'd me a chain; Both one and other he denies me now.

  65. Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me.

  66. It is a branch and parcel of mine oath, A charitable duty of my order; Therefore depart, and leave him here with me.

  67. That chain will I bestow- Be it for nothing but to spite my wife- Upon mine hostess there; good sir, make haste.

  68. Shall I go and see a coal-mine that may have been worked a thousand years since?

  69. They must have been planted at the time recorded in the Guide-book, when a mine was discovered near the town, and the works and warehouses on the quay erected.

  70. Had I hanged that knave Edward, as I did the page his predecessor, my niece would have sung mine ave, and I should have been by this time an angel in heaven.

  71. When troops march over the bridge, a young friend of mine (whom I shrewdly suspect to be an Orangeman in his heart) told me that their bands play the 'Boyne Water.

  72. The former writer insinuates that the mine must have been worked more than a thousand years ago, 'before the turbulent chaos of events that succeeded the eighth century.

  73. A friend of mine was present at one of the ex-Minister's soirees, where the Duchess of Dash made her appearance.

  74. Now all things lie Hid by her mantle dark and dim, In pious hope I hither hie, And humbly chaunt mine ev'ning hymn.

  75. And, as the sage has said you must not bury your treasures in a well, I will not confide mine to the brutal stupidity of these monks.

  76. His large greyish eyes watched mine with an inscrutable expression.

  77. But these furnaces of mine used to be finer, before we shoved cones in their throats, and saved the gas.

  78. I take it he has transferred the whole of his memories, the accumulation that makes up his personality, from this old withered brain of his to mine, and, similarly, that he has transferred mine to his discarded tenement.

  79. It would require a subtler pen than mine to tell how from that day a passion for Miss Smith grew like Jonah's gourd in the heart of Aubrey Vair.

  80. Prince Christian (Acting Brigade Major) and I had a short talk together; we touched on a scheme of mine for making light limbers for our guns.

  81. This is a particularly useful glass, and I myself felt quite lost, late in the campaign, when I unfortunately dropped the top of mine when riding.

  82. I haf tried all night, und in dot place vere it is not fit for dogs to be born, und mit notting to eat only vot I brings in mine own pockets.

  83. Who will carry the good tidings to others, as I have carried them to him--priceless gift of liberty and light that is neither mine nor his, but is the heritage of the soul of man!

  84. I couldn't pay mine room rent--" Jurgis interrupted her with an oath of rage.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abridge; abyss; arm; bank; barricade; battle; bereave; blast; bleed; blockade; bomb; bombard; bonanza; bore; burrow; carve; chasm; chisel; convert; cornucopia; countermine; cultivate; curtail; deadfall; decoy; deepen; delve; depress; deprive; dig; diggings; dike; disburden; disentangle; ditch; dive; divest; drain; draw; dredge; drill; drive; dugout; entrench; entrenchment; eradicate; evolve; excavate; excavation; excise; extract; extricate; fence; font; fortify; fosse; fountain; fountainhead; foxhole; fund; furrow; gallery; garrison; gin; gouge; groove; grow; grub; gulf; harvest; headwater; honeycomb; lode; lour; lower; machine; mainspring; man; milk; mill; mine; moat; mousetrap; palisade; pan; parallel; pit; pitfall; pluck; process; prospect; pull; pump; quarry; raise; rear; refine; relieve; remove; resource; sabotage; scoop; scrape; scratch; shaft; shovel; sink; smelt; source; spade; spring; staple; tap; trap; treason; treasury; trench; trough; tunnel; undermine; unearth; unravel; uproot; vein; wall; well; wellspring; withdraw; workings; wrest


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    mine eyes; mine own