To sail with the stream, to agree with the company, is not his humour.
It was the old man, Thomas Dickson, not his son, who fell.
If a slave kill his master, or a freeman who is not his master, in anger, the kinsmen of the murdered person may do with the murderer whatever they please, but they must not spare his life.
The temperate man is the friend of God because he is like Him, and the intemperate man is not His friend, because he is not like Him.
Not his anger, but the anger of the destroyer that she beheld waking now after its long sleep, and taking possession of him, and transforming him before her very eyes.
Had she been his wife and not his daughter, he would have flown into a rage.
But now her own words, not his, were ringing in her head--women do not so easily cease to love, they suffer.
It was his efficiency she had doubted, not his sincerity.
It is not his fault; he is not at all to blame for it, and does not even know my name.
Under his daily restraint, it was his compensation, not his trouble, to give a glance towards his state at night, and to the freedom of its being indulged.
Only, taking from his neck a gold chain which he wore, he proffered it to Quick, who, as he said, had induced the prince Joshua to show his horsemanship if not his courage.
Know that the Child of Kings rules the Abati, not the Prince Joshua, and that prisoners taken by her soldiers are hers, not his.
That man claims what is not his, and he should not have her if he were fifty men, with fifty more to back him,' said Nicholas.
One ought not to have undeceived her, perhaps, but one is naturally honest, and cannot bear to be credited with what is not his own.
I think, if I were left to myself, I should hang a rogue and then write his apology and subscribe to a neat monument, commemorating, not his virtues, but his misfortunes.
On a given day of the month a wagon stops at the door and takes up, not his trunks, for he does not indulge in any such extravagance, but the stout brown linen bags in which he packs the few conveniences he carries with him.
One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
It was God's cause for which they were contending, not his; and yet it was his, inasmuch as he was God's instrument.
This is not a case of subsequent reflection modifying first impressions, but of an authoritative voice discerned by the hearer to be not his own, contradicting his own thoughts, and leaving no room for further consideration.
This last designation shows what David counted God's chief gift to him,--not his crown, but his harp.
He called on them to transfer their loyalty to himself, and he asserted, not his anointing by Samuel, but his recognition by Judah, the premier tribe, as the motive.
The one is ungrateful, although it is wrong, because it is his interest; the other is grateful, although it is not his interest, because it is right.
It is possible, without treason, to discuss what is and what is not his; for even what the court may decide not to be his, from another point of view is his.
In fact, it is not his affair at all, but his father's.
For she is not his love; she is only his wife,--what is left of a romance when the romance is left out.
Even the administration of the property is not his, but resides in the family, represented by its head.
If by some mischance he should so far forget to forget himself, it were much better for him had he not done so, for the choice of a bride is not his, nor of a bridegroom hers.
Hee is not his Crafts-master, hee doth not doe it right.
He had no Legges, that practic'd not his Gate: And speaking thicke (which Nature made his blemish) Became the Accents of the Valiant.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not his" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
