It is small enough to have a character of its own, and large enough for solitude, which is always the great charm of a city, after the offensive publicity of the country.
The house, a large square brick one, standing in its own grounds, is built on a small hill in an oasis of green fields.
Yet they were not; each soul went selfishly alone, thinking only of its own burden.
It is always the outsider who comes to the great city to show it its own resources," he went on.
They were a deep violet now, large, shining with tragic softness--like the eyes of an angel that has lost its birthright through no fault of its own.
But I will teach you how to do it; you must turn your pitchfork upside down, and work with the handle, and then all will fly out of its own accord.
Put the ashes of each dog into a bag of its own color, then go before the door of the palace and cry out, 'A celebrated physician has come from Janina in Albania.
And yet the place was not without a certain quaintness and charm of its own, though possibly -- indeed probably -- it was one which would quickly pall.
A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining.
Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will.
And all day long a bird sings there, And a stray sheep drinks at the pond at times; The place is silent and aware; It has had its scenes, its joys and crimes, But that is its own affair.
I have tried being a teacher, and I am not fit for that: my mind is too fond of wandering on its own way.
Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion?
A bad composition carries with it its own punishment, contempt and ridicule.
Your obstinacy must be its own punishment,' said I; 'But one resource remains to save Agnes and myself, and I shall not hesitate to employ it.
He entered, and the door closed after him of its own accord.
But Europe was engaged upon business of its own, fighting the quarrels between the Pope and the emperor or suppressing this or that or the other heresy.
The Crown refused to give in and the King sent Parliament about its own business.
The discontented teachers (again followed by their pupils) had moved to Padua and their proud city thenceforward boasted of a university of its own.
But some time during the thirteenth century, this useful little fish (for reasons of its own) moved from the North Sea to the Baltic and the cities of that inland sea began to make money.
There is no method of steering clear of this inconvenience, but by authorizing the national government to raise its own revenues in its own way.
Thus, the law carries with it its own sanction; its violation is inevitably accompanied by the immediate punishment of the transgressor.
Labor becomes a guarantee of well-being and equality only so far as the product of each individual is in proportion with the mass; for in all cases it exchanges or buys a value equal only to its own.
It is hard to say wherein it lies, but this joy of Alpine winters is its own reward.
And besides, your picture is such an excellent copy that it's by no means without a value of its own.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its own" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
