Hisn

"Hisn" in a Sentence (3 examples)

I will not show him this letter of yours, though you seem to desire it, lest it should provoke him to be too severe a schoolmaster, when you are his'n.

An' every feller felt ez though all Mexico wuz hisn.

But in the absolute whosen is often substituted, as in "if it ain't hisn, then whosen is it?" The imitation is obvious.

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