their's

English

their's

Obsolete form of theirs.
- 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, published 1840, page 331:
  Colonel Middleton was dismounted amongst the king's forces, of whom one, taking him for a commander of their's, mounted him again, and bid him make haste, and kill a roundhead; and so he escaped.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 6, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 162:
  “Forward, the Light Brigade!” / Was there a man dismay’d? / Not tho’ the soldier knew / Some one had blunder’d: / Their’s not to make reply, / Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die, / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.
- 1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book, page 80:
  Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all.
Misspelling of theirs.
- 1962, Nicholas Wollaston, “El Salvador”, in Red Rumba: A Journey through the Caribbean and Central America, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 107:
  But however many the families number, their’s is the republic, the power and the glory, and for ever and ever they mean to keep it.

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