"In the war between France and Spain, now commencing, other interests, peculiarly ours, will, in all probability, be deeply involved.

Wise Flora, whenever she alluded to their holding of the plighted ones apart, named the scheme his till that cloyed, and then "ours" in a way that made it more richly his, even whenclearly to Madame, dimly to him, exasperatingly to bothher wiles for its successwoven around his cousinbecame purely feminine blandishments for purely feminine ends.

whych glorie I had now thought whoulde haue bene onely ours heere at London and the court.

Here at Chattanooga, so impregnably ours, issued Tennessee river and the Memphis and Charleston railroad from the mountain gateway between our eastern and western seats of war.

We abhor that profane vulgarity of our politics which denies to an antagonist the merits which are justly his, because he may have been blinded to the truth of our principles by the demerits which are justly ours,which hates the man because it hates his creed, and, instead of grappling with his argument, seeks in the kitchen-drains of scandal for the material to bespatter his reputation.

whych glorie I had now thought whoulde haue bene onely ours heere at London and the court.

That is why love is of all things most securely ours.

It could not flourish as it does were fewer of us content to express vague thoughts and feelings instead of those which are sharply and specifically ours.

Their cause is bad, their men are conscious of it, and, if opposed with firmness and coolness at their first onset, with our advantages of works and knowledge of the ground, the victory is most assuredly ours.

While, in a blind sort of way, we may be said to choose for ourselves the man or woman with whom we are to share the joys and sorrows of our years, yet the choice is only superficially ours.