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Example sentences for "not mine"

  • Forgive it, as my passion's fault, not mine.

  • Tis her great power, not mine, that you obey.

  • It is not mine, but I say--beware how you tamper with it.

  • Therefore she is their property, not mine.

  • But this secret is not mine, and I cannot reveal it in this manner.

  • Cosmo, "the ring is not mine to give anybody, but if you will give me the stick, I shall be greatly obliged to you.

  • It is not Mine to give, save to them for whom it is prepared.

  • I am telling you this for your own good--not mine.

  • It is not mine," said Wetherell, starting.

  • So vivid was that picture that I could hear Mr. Carvel say: "He is yours, madam, not mine.

  • His departure was more strange than any I have ever known--moreover, it was his own doing, not mine.

  • Not mine, as were the ballads and the love-ode he chanted to the King last night!

  • Sah-luma's poem is after all his own,--not mine.

  • This is the language of bitter, bitter experience and is not mine alone.

  • I often said afterward that a little stranger was running about my nursery, not mine, but God's.

  • While listening to it my weary spirit rested itself, and I thought, 'surely it can not be wrong to think of the Saviour, although He is not mine.

  • But yet, the more I am alone when those I teach return; For they, as planets of some other sun, Not mine, have paths that can but meet my ring Once in a cycle.

  • No: e'en my solitude is not mine now, And if I be alone is ofttimes doubt.

  • Neither the girl nor the man would like it, and it is their business, not mine.

  • This is not mine, but I have been living in it--with Kedgers.

  • I do not object to your confessing, if you confess your own backslidings and not mine.

  • Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

  • He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right or my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.

  • I'm not a partner in your enterprise, and if you get a misfit couple returned on your hands it is your lookout, not mine.

  • This is your bailiwick, not mine, and until I ask you to scold my clerks you mustn't ask me to scold your servants.

  • And again in this: I am as rich as God; no grain of dust That is not mine, too: share with me He must.

  • NOT MINE It is not mine to run, with eager feet, Along life's crowded ways, my Lord to meet.

  • It is not mine to pour the oil and wine Or bring the purple robe and linen fine.

  • Not mine, not mine the choice In things or great or small; Be Thou my guide, my strength, My wisdom and my all.

  • The valuation was Mr. Blobbs's, not mine.

  • He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

  • Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable variation; implicit faith; never should; not able; not been; not far; not good; not having; not known; not making significant efforts; not merely; not possible; not pretend; not remember; not speak; not sufficient; not uncommon; not wish; nothing further; nothing like; nothing loath; nothing remains; nothing very; notice the; noticed hereafter; resist evil