Vpon my death, the French can little boast; In yoursthey will, in you all hopes are lost.
The Sword of Orleance hath not made me smart, These words of yours draw Life-blood from my Heart.
A Delicate Taste and warm imagination like yours must find it hard to give up such refined & exquisite enjoyments for the coarse and dry study of the Law.
Surely," he said, "it was not made without some wise end, and its little life was as dear to him as is yours to you.
I have never seen a more exquisite costume than yours on the evening when we dined here by invitation; it has been like a picture in my memory ever since.
One of this gang shot Allison; was this Eliot of yours the marksman?
What brought this brother of yours away down here?
He's crazy on these silver mines, and he's willing to pay out our dowers, yours and mine, so that he may throw the rest into the big holes at Port Gorey.
I say, Wall, see if you can't get that ferocious friend of yours into a room where he can sleep off his liquor.
What the dickens," says Clifford, "can you want, going away with this familiar of yours at this hour of the night?
They'll carry us wherever that three-cornered mule ofyours will shuffle to to-night,' said Jim.
I have done so in other lands, and I suppose yours is no exception.
Anyhow, Kate, yours is, though you did play me a sharpish trick once, and didn't stick to me like some women might have done.
I had proposed to myself not to marry--in which case you or a son of yours would have followed me--but your sister overpersuaded me.
For that helmet of yours is out of place, in the woods.
With every sentiment of respect, in which Anna joins, believe me, yours very sincerely, J.
Yes, the hour may not be far distant, when the raptures of bliss, or the agonies of despair, will be yours, and yours for ever.
I was from home when yours of last month arrived; and since my return, family matters so engaged my attention, that I have been prevented replying to it.
Let me hear from you as soon as you can spare a few moments from your numerous engagements, and believe me, yours affectionately, E.
You may obtain mercy, Sophia, but I cannot; yours have been the sins of ignorance, but mine have been committed against the clearest light and the deepest conviction of their aggravated guilt.
Remember me very kindly to every member of your family, and believe me to be, yours affectionately, E.
The duty I owe to the king, my master, the care I am bound to take of my reputation, and my fears of being molested, all make me request you to look upon my house as yours no longer.
Whilst I heard mass my mind was made up, and as long as you love me I shall be yours, and yours only.
I am yoursand I love you, and I am ready to prove my love.
I wish it was your father's ears a-shiverin' there afore me, but yours 'll do.
To the former consideration I was quickly recalled by a motion of yours which indicated I knew not what.
I knew that to pry into your papers was criminal; but I reflected that no sentiment of yours was of a nature which made it your interest to conceal it.
Permit Mrs. Baynton to have the management of your brother's house for two or three days; then it shall be yours to act in it as you please.
It's yours for the taking--if you will only give me your horse.
Do you know," he began slyly, "I don't believe the horse isyours at all.
The only plan of yours to succeed was in the slaying of an old man.
And I am ten years older than you, and I have been given a nature that was, I think, always older than yours could ever be.
Well, he must think of yours now," said Artois, decisively, to Hermione.
And now, lovely Zelida, nothing prevents me any longer from offering you the hand, when the heart has been yours always.
My heart is as much yours as ever it was, and nothing in the world can make any difference.
Shove her bow round, Peter; and keep that rat story of yours for the young man in Flanagan's boat.
That police sergeant ofyours is a fool, Lentaigne.
I say, Priscilla," he said, "is that old aunt of yoursquite mad?
But you,--you live, take everything that is mine and that is yours of right, and found a new existence for yourself wherever it may be!
I could not let her spoil her own life andyours without uttering a protest.
If de place, where dat frien of yours is living, is not to his health suited, why does not he elsewhere go?
Yes, dey all berry well; but Martha tell me if I lub dere lives and yours to jump on horseback and come and tell you to make haste home.
There, man, take the ring; it might have been yours by right.
I may now give a message from the captain, who begs that you will take possession of his cabin, which is entirely at your service; you must consider it yours till the return of the boats with our men.
Now, farewell--may a happier fate be yours than will probably be my lot!
I will give my reasons without asking yours in return, for I have no interest in you at all.
If you please, sir, be yours the closing words--for the Night.
I have written to my father, and to yours more fully--stating in the one letter my wish, in the other trying to explain the feelings from which it springs.
Any request of yours I interpret liberally, and accede to at once.
When you say to other employees that the Old Man is a curmudgeon, you reveal the fact that you are one; and when you tell that the policy of the institution is "rotten," 10 you surely show that yours is.
Leave yours with me till day after to-morrow and I'll consider it.
What concern was it of yours whether or how the wretch was hanged?
The thing I didn't like in that interview of yours was that starry-eyed eyewash about our ancestor being a man of vision, a philosopher and a dreamer.
That's fascinating, Bill, but making a trip like yoursis all a gamble.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
