he had fallen into an absolute confusion as to meum tuum with regard to himself and his master, which sometimes troubled even St. Clare.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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The African slave-trade produces singular notions of meum and tuum in the minds and hearts of those who dwell for any length of time on that blighting coast; and it is not unlikely that I was quite as prone to the infection as better men, who perished under the malady, while I escaped!
Brantz Mayer. Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver (1854)
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They say that his brother, the Earl, has picked up his great wealth in a most unaccountable manner, and that the whole family have a singular want of discrimination in the meaning of the words meum and tuum.