1 You admired their frocks or their babies indiscriminately and teased about beaux and complimented husbands and giggled modestly and denied that you had any charms at all compared with theirs.
2 There were crowds in front of every other counter but theirs, girls chattering, men buying.
3 It was still theirs, that slender iron line winding through the sunny valley toward Atlanta.
4 Even in this flash of revelation, she realized vaguely that, foolish though they seemed, theirs was the right attitude.
5 She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs.
6 And for all its fat richness, theirs is a pioneer land.
7 If she was egotistic about her tiny learning, they were at least as much so regarding theirs.
8 Because, in the case of pirates, say, I should like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about it.
9 Huggins's is far better than theirs; but, by great odds, Beale's is the best.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 10 This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and benevolent of them.
11 Now the defendants afterwards took the fish; ergo, the aforesaid articles were theirs.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. 12 For the moment all the aghast mate's thoughts seemed theirs; they raised a half mutinous cry.
13 One after another they peered in, for nothing but their own eyes could persuade such ignorance as theirs, and one after another they slunk away.
14 So long as they paid, however, they had nothing to fear, the house was all theirs.
15 It was hard for them to realize that the wonderful house was theirs to move into whenever they chose.