mine-a

Updated: May 25, 2025

I was as a monarch swaying a sceptre that commanded both earth and heaven; a kingdom was mine-a kingdom of golden ether, peopled with shining shapes Protean, alas! its gates are shut upon me now, and I shall enter it no more!" "'No more' is a long time, my friend!" interposed Heliobas gently. "You are too despondent, perchance too diffident, concerning your own ability."

Marie Corelli - Ardath

The game was stopped by another hand than mine-a hand emerging from a paletot-sleeve and stretched over my shoulder; it caught the extemporised plaything and bore it away with these sullen words: "Je vois bien que vous vous moquez de moi et de mes effets." Really that little man was dreadful: a mere sprite of caprice and, ubiquity: one never knew either his whim or his whereabout.

Charlotte Brontë - Villette