275 Metaphors for mine

Servants eat in Dr. Johnson's; and mine was a kind of general rendezvous of all under the roof, children and dogs not excepted.

For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.

that harum-scarum venter er mine was the best I ever made.

Mine was the first number," replied Kurt, with a little pride.

Thou seest that mine is no idle threat.

Mine was no boyish, transient passion: it has grown with my growth, and strengthened with my strength.

Constantly the thought dwells with me that since I love her most, mine is the higher right.

Mine had been the first British Battery to come into action and open fire on the Italian Front.

The dining-room being mine, perhaps that was the reason of her naming the parlourmighty nice again, if so!

Mine was, at least, a fighting chance, and fighting was my trade.

"Mine is a queen," said Segrave in a hollow tone of voice.

Whether he liked it or not, mine was a life job.

"Why, his mine must be a source of unlimited wealth.

Fair exchange, for, if mine were the riper creed, hers was the more vivid and adventurous.

Mine is a sickness not to be cured by drugs.

The coal mines are deep holes made very far under the ground, in order to get at the coal; some of them go under the sea.

Mine's a bottle o' Bass,' he ses, turning to me.

"Mine is Ross Shanklin," he volunteered, for the first time in forgotten years giving his real name.

We all 'ave our faults, and mine is pride.

"And mine is Tom Thurnall, F.R.C.S., Licentiate of the Universities of Paris, Glasgow, and whilome surgeon of the good clipper Hesperus, which you saw wrecked last night.

At length I have done with verse-making,not that I relish other people's poetry less: theirs comes from 'em without effort; mine is the difficult operation of a brain scanty of ideas, made more difficult by disuse.

"Mine is a knave," rejoined Lambert.

Mine is a sort of Deputy-Grecian's hand,a little better, and more of a worldly hand, than a Grecian's, but still remote from the mercantile.

"Mine was a good deal of both this time," said Halicarnassus.

" "Why look now," quoth Beltane, "mine shall be a hard service and a dangerous, for I have mighty wrongs to set aright.

275 Metaphors for  mine