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Example sentences for "must own"

  • A very different appearance, I must own, all these make, now the story of the pretty rustic is cleared up, to what they would have made, had it not.

  • As I never disguise the truth, I must own,.

  • I must own, ,Sir, I think that Sylla and my father ought to be set in opposition rather than paralleled.

  • Duclas was a very excellent man, I must own that I owed no small grudge for a visit which had thus abridged ours.

  • I must own I did it with the less reluctance, on account of the affection for him, which the freedom of our conversation and daily intercourse has excited in my heart.

  • I must own," replied Noor ad Deen, "I was extremely in the wrong in not following the advice which with such admirable prudence you gave me.

  • I must own, my dear lord, that, a few months since, I feared you were wedded to the expensive pleasures of the turf.

  • If it suits you, you are quite at liberty to tell Lord Kilcullen all I have told you; and, if you wish me to contradict the report, which I must own I have spread, I will do so.

  • And I must own, that I hardly appreciate your delicacy in asking to do so at the present moment.

  • I must own ingenuously," replied King Saleh, "I have a boon to ask of your majesty; and I shall take care to ask nothing but what is in your power to bestow.

  • In short, I must own, I envy your situation.

  • He is really a most agreeable visitor, though I must own that I am somewhat knocked up by our great exertions.

  • The news from Spain are better, but I must own frankly to you, that we are all disgusted at the French intrigues which have without a doubt been at the bottom of it all, and can, I fear, be traced very close to the Tuileries.

  • The Queen-Dowager's letters do tantalize one a good deal, I must own.

  • I must own that I never expected to be hung.

  • Everything on board appeared in the wildest confusion; and I must own that I got most unaccountably in everybody's way, and accordingly got kicked out of it without the slightest ceremony.

  • The truth is, he had very much the looks of a ruffian; though, I must own, his behaviour was very obliging and submissive.

  • I must own I found these transient refreshments much more agreeable than any regular meal I ate upon the road.

  • Her great fault, I must own, was over-delicacy.

  • The circumstances you refer to, I must own ought to shield you, Sir, from suspicion; but the man before you is a man that would make an angel suspected, should that angel plead for him.

  • I must own, (notwithstanding the revenge I have so solemnly vowed,) that I would very fain have made for her a merit with myself in her returning favour, and have owed as little as possible to the mediation of Captain Tomlinson.

  • If it be the completion of marriage, to my confusion and regret, I must own we are not.

  • But I must own, that it is past my comprehension, that a wife can resent any thing a husband can do (that is not a breach of the peace) so far as to think herself justified for eloping from him.

  • I must own I felt so well content yesterday after the Shtcherbatskys' that I didn't care to go anywhere.

  • I must own that I thought the circumstances excused him.

  • I must own, however, that another impression had been produced on me.

  • I dare not affirm that; but this I must own, that I never heard of one of them that ever appeared after the calamity was over.

  • I myself, I must own, never knew the lady, but they do say .

  • I must own I had the gravest doubts as to his having gone to the Caucasus.

  • I must own such a conversation at a ball struck me as eccentric in the extreme; the ideas involuntarily kindled within me were of a nature anything but religious.

  • I must own that I felt very anxious, and carefully examined the lock of my rifle, and assured myself that I had properly loaded it.

  • I must own that I had fallen asleep, and was dreaming of old England and my comfortable arm-chair, when I was awoke by finding my companions rising and beginning to move on at a rapid rate--I was so sleepy that I could not tell where.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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