Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.—Id.
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.—Bible.
My greatest apprehension was for mine eyes.—Swift.
This usage is still preserved in poetry.
Double and triple possessives.
87. The forms hers, ours, yours, theirs, are really double possessives, since they add the possessive s to what is already a regular possessive inflection.
Besides this, we have, as in nouns, a possessive phrase made up of the preposition of with these double possessives, hers, ours, yours, theirs, and with mine, thine, his, sometimes its.
Their uses.
Like the noun possessives, they have several uses:—
(1) To prevent ambiguity, as in the following:—