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Example sentences for "her own"

  • I remember closing my eyes an instant, yieldingly, consciously, as before the excess of something beautiful that shone out of the blue of her own.

  • She was now housekeeper and was also acting for the time as superintendent to the little girl, of whom, without children of her own, she was, by good luck, extremely fond.

  • Likewise that she might either have dined already or intend to do so in her own apartments.

  • Shall I cure the princess in her own presence, or shall I do it from here without seeing her?

  • Then turning to Caschcasch: "My thanks to you, and now do you and Danhasch bear the princess back to her own home.

  • In a few moments the princess herself appeared, and after the usual compliments had passed between them, the princess sat down on a sofa, and began to explain to the prince her reasons for not giving him an audience in her own apartments.

  • Sire," answered the grand-vizir, "it is her own wish.

  • At the same time, Miss Everdene has a right to be her own baily if she choose--and to keep me down to be a common shepherd only.

  • It was one which many women of her own station in the neighbourhood, and not a few of higher rank, would have been wild to accept and proud to publish.

  • In arguing on prices, she held to her own firmly, as was natural in a dealer, and reduced theirs persistently, as was inevitable in a woman.

  • The charm of Edna Pontellier's physique stole insensibly upon you.

  • Most of the people at that early hour were still in bed and asleep.

  • He responded at once by presenting himself at her home with all his disarming naivete.

  • She still wore the shabby lace and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head.

  • He said nothing except to offer her his arm, for, by her own admission, she was exhausted.

  • Two of them clung about her white skirts, the third she took from its nurse and with a thousand endearments bore it along in her own fond, encircling arms.

  • She had one of her own to tell, of a woman who paddled away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back.

  • She felt sure that the significance of the whole occurrence had lain in her own self-consciousness.

  • She realized that she had neglected her reading, and determined to start anew upon a course of improving studies, now that her time was completely her own to do with as she liked.

  • The Bird Woman had a fine way of attending strictly to her own business.

  • She traited me like I was born a gintleman, and shared with me as if I were of her own blood.

  • His life, and what was far more, her own, was in her hands.

  • He drew rein, and as they slowed he was on the point of imprinting the desired salute, when, as if hardly yet aware of her own modesty, she dodged aside.

  • Tess turned the subject by saying what was far more prominent in her own mind at the moment than thoughts of her ancestry--"I am afraid father won't be able to take the journey with the beehives to-morrow so early.

  • They were just beginning to descend; and it was evident that the horse, whether of her own will or of his (the latter being the more likely), knew so well the reckless performance expected of her that she hardly required a hint from behind.

  • Tess seemed for the moment really pleased to hear that she had won such high opinion from a stranger when, in her own esteem, she had sunk so low.

  • Added to this, Aurore began to study osteology with a young man who lived in the neighbourhood, and it was said that this young man, Stephane Ajasson de Grandsaigne, gave her lessons in her own room.

  • Her convent life had taken her away from Nature and accustomed her to falling back on her own thoughts.

  • It would be strange indeed if a girl of eighteen did not feel some affection for the man who had been the first to make love to her, a man whom she had married of her own free-will.

  • Then again came the thought of her father and of her own wrong, and the bitterness again revived.

  • The parents spent long evenings gravely discussing these indications of uncommon genius, and each interpreted them in his or her own way.

  • Firm and true to what she undertakes, and that which she requires by her own aggrandizement, and regards as being within the strict rules of propriety, she will remain stable and unflinching to the last.

  • He resolves to see her in her own home, with the consoling theme: "'I can but perish if I go.

  • He is still absent; she listens for that voice which has so often been greeted by the melodies of her own; but, alas!

  • So she married George, and Edward's heart came very near breaking, as well as her own.

  • As a matter of fact, her own name at the head of the list exercised an almost paralysing effect on her thinking faculties.

  • The Duchess of Dulverton was rich, as the world counted wealth; she nursed the hope, of being one day rich at her own computation.

  • The people told them the name of the country, which was unknown to Haschem and the Princess Handa.

  • When I offered the grain to the bird, it refused to peck it; and when I pressed my hand closer, the bird drew back, lost its balance, and fell down with outspread wings.

  • But Haschem's name lived long in their memory, and in that of all the inhabitants of that island.

  • Heralds went before him, and cried aloud, "Listen to what Kadga Singa makes known to all people.

  • So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

  • So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

  • He was a friend, and she offered him vodka and preserved mushrooms of her own making.

  • The fresh scenery and surroundings, the people strangely different to her own, appealed to her at any rate as a new experience.

  • She had become more and more fascinated by her own success in the round of gaieties she lived in.

  • She had first thought of giving away what she possessed in order to test Mahin; but afterwards she wanted to do so for her own sake, for the sake of her own soul.

  • She was a low brute of a woman--she could n't understand a word I said, though she gave me plenty of her own tongue.

  • The stronger part of it by her own letters, which makes her story true even to the point of her death.

  • How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?

  • We must have your doublet and hose pluck'd over your head, and show the world what the bird hath done to her own nest.

  • Virtue and she Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.

  • Alone she was, and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears; she thought, I dare vow for her, they touch'd not any stranger sense.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ardent admirer; her arm; her body; her book; her brain; her companion; her death; her knee; her lap; her letters; her lips were parted; her memory; her old; her only; her shoulders; her the; her will; here have; here meant; here present; here you; hereditary disease; hereinafter provided; hereunto affixed; hermetically sealed; will confess