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Example sentences for "his own"

  • I suppose she'll be coming up here later to stay with Miss Hatchard?

  • That's the only time I ever went up the Mountain," he concluded.

  • Fry: this is Miss Orma Fry sewing the stars on the drapery for the organ-loft.

  • Her first rage of jealousy over, she felt no fear on this score.

  • He sat staring straight ahead of him, a look of weariness and self-disgust on his face: it was almost as if he had been gazing at a distorted reflection of his own features.

  • Even then she had regarded him only in relation to herself, and had never speculated as to his own feelings, beyond instinctively concluding that he would not trouble her again in the same way.

  • She did not cry; tears came hard to her, and the storms of her heart spent themselves inwardly.

  • The business on which Harney had come was authentic; Charity had seen the letter from a New York publisher commissioning him to make a study of the eighteenth century houses in the less familiar districts of New England.

  • They seem to be quite outside the jurisdiction of the valleys.

  • Why should I say things against you to Miss Hatchard--or to anyone?

  • What did anything matter that he was saying?

  • He refused to allow her to do this, saying that he could quite easily be his own doctor in such a trifling matter as a cold.

  • What devil had possessed him to degrade himself in the eyes of his own servant?

  • If the famous physician could have shaken his own reputation, he would have done it that afternoon.

  • Never before had he made himself so little welcome at the bedside.

  • She signed to him, with a faint smile, to take a chair.

  • Agnes hurried the little woman out of the room.

  • Why don't you consult a doctor whose special employment is the treatment of the insane?

  • And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

  • The stars will be only dots in the blackness of his own brain; his mother's face will be only a sketch from his own insane pencil on the walls of his cell.

  • A sentimentalist might shed tears at the smell of apple-blossom, because, by a dark association of his own, it reminded him of his boyhood.

  • She did indeed see Susan murmuring to Mrs. Elliot, while Arthur stared at her with complete confidence in his own love.

  • In some strange way the boat became identified with himself, and just as it would have been useless for him to get up and steer the boat, so was it useless for him to struggle any longer with the irresistible force of his own feelings.

  • The gallant Mark Clark here made a peculiar and well known sound with his own.

  • Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own -- the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way.

  • And he growled terrible crooked too, lately" Jacob continued, surveying his father's figure, which was rather more bowed than his own.

  • His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

  • I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

  • Take him before Issus, bound in his own harness, that she may see with her own eyes that there be one among you now who is greater than the First Born.

  • Is Sator Throg to be murdered by his own vassals?

  • Nor ever did you know John Carter to lie in his own behalf, or to say aught that might harm the people of Barsoom, or to speak lightly of the strange religion which he respected without understanding.

  • Let each man act according to his own heart.

  • Decidedly not; once received a kick on the top of a staircase, and fell downstairs of his own accord.

  • Jerry, the messenger, who had made his own observations, in his own manner, and who had been sucking the rust off his fingers in his absorption, stretched his neck to hear who they were.

  • The lion then composed himself on his back on a sofa on one side of the drinking-table, while the jackal sat at his own paper-bestrewn table proper, on the other side of it, with the bottles and glasses ready to his hand.

  • Yielding to his own disturbance of mind, and to his young companion's agitation, which became greater every instant, Mr. Jarvis Lorry twice stopped to rest.

  • Daae seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same color as in his own country.

  • Raoul heard only the sound of his own breathing.

  • His emotion when speaking of the "monster" struck him as sincere; and, if the Persian had cherished any sinister designs against him, he would not have armed him with his own hands.

  • Now it is understood that he has composed an original speech of congratulation and benediction, and this is one of the events of the day.

  • And not only was it the rule here, it was the rule everywhere in America, so far as he knew.

  • Jadvyga likewise paints cans, but then she has an invalid mother and three little sisters to support by it, and so she does not spend her wages for shirtwaists.

  • You might complain, but you would get nothing for your pains but a ruined evening; while, as for going to law about it, you might as well go to heaven at once.

  • The second violin is a Slovak, a tall, gaunt man with black-rimmed spectacles and the mute and patient look of an overdriven mule; he responds to the whip but feebly, and then always falls back into his old rut.

  • It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families.

  • He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the condemned man for his own.

  • It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.

  • In his own commentary, Mei Sheng-yu has brushed aside all the obstinate prejudices of these critics, and has tried to bring out the true meaning of Sun Tzu himself.

  • We may feel fairly certain that the author, whoever he may have been, was not a man of any great eminence in his own day.

  • Of course it is true that, during an engagement, or when in close touch with the enemy, the general should not be in the thick of his own troops, but a little distance apart.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adequate idea; city life; got back; half length; his eyes; his face; his own; his two; his wife; historic interest; historic period; historic times; historical composition; historical criticism; historical events; historical facts; historical literature; historical monuments; historical painting; historical point; historical research; historical studies; history and; leaves oval; till late; would rather