I have often contrasted the habitual qualities of that gloomy friend of theirs with the astounding spirits of Thackeray and Dickens.—J. T. Fields.
No words of ours can describe the fury of the conflict.—J. F. Cooper.
(2) To bring emphasis, as in these sentences:—
This thing of yours that you call a Pardon of Sins, it is a bit of rag-paper with ink.—Carlyle.
This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times. —Holmes.
(3) To express contempt, anger, or satire; for example,—
"Do you know the charges that unhappy sister of mine and her family have put me to already?" says the Master.—Thackeray.
He [John Knox] had his pipe of Bordeaux too, we find, in that old Edinburgh house of his.—Carlyle.
"Hold thy peace, Long Allen," said Henry Woodstall, "I tell thee that tongue of thine is not the shortest limb about thee."—Scott.
(4) To make a noun less limited in application; thus,—