Thine in example sentence
So having tuned the harp, Altisidora, running her hand across the strings, began this ballad:O thou that art above in bed,Between the holland sheets,A-lying there from night till morn,With outstretched legs asleep;O thou, most valiant knight of allThe famed Manchegan breed,Of purity and virtue moreThan gold of Araby;Give ear unto a suffering maid,Well-grown but evil-starr'd,For those two suns of thine have litA fire within her heart.
More example sentences with word thine
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle "what's mine is thine, what's thine is mine," the kind of mindset that operates within a family, for example; dominance, whose principle is "don't mess with me;" reciprocity, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours;" and sexuality, in the immortal words of Cole Porter, "Let's do it." All example sentences