But the sea is our approach and bulwark; it has been the scene of our greatest triumphs and dangers; and we are accustomed in lyrical strains to claim it as our own.
It is when we make castles in the air and personate the leading character in our own romances, that we return to the spirit of our first years.
When nature is "so careless of the single life," why should we coddle ourselves into the fancy that our own is of exceptional importance?
I happen often to differ from her; and we both think so well of our own arguments, that we very seldom are so happy as to convince one another.
The pathetic intonation with which he lengthened out the "po' Sandy" touched a responsive chord in our own hearts.
But that argument falls before the world-wide interest in it as a mere story, in so many languages, by races unaffected by our own relation to slavery.
And the natural - the primitive - explanation was by reference to life, analogous, if not similar, to our own.
It may be thought that its cradle is our own, that we are purposely frightened in early childhood to keep us calm and quiet.
Our own American, who was much afraid of them, obeyed their commands without more ado.
Considering the length of its lineage, how remarkably hale and well preserved is our own barbarity!
Our own material is, in part, too recently studied to form anything like a generalization concerning prognosis.
If our own work is of any practical value it is in offering safer grounds for prognosis and treatment.
The important part which behavior of this type sometimes plays in court work is witnessed to by the records of our own cases as well as those cited in the previous literature.
Running away from home and itineracy show in a wonderfully strong correlation with pathological lying, both in previous studies and in our own material.
Revenge, says Bacon, is a kind of wild justice; its judgments at least are delivered by an insane judge; and in our own quarrel we can see nothing truly and do nothing wisely.
The Beggars' Opera," in our own country, is another instance of the admiration that thieves excite upon the stage.
We mistake the gratuitousblessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry.
When we look in at our own souls, it is like looking into a many-sided room lined with mirrors.
But in some moods and in some lights we do get such an all-comprehending view of ourselves in looking at our own faces.
It looks as though Hayden and I would have to start a little Baptist hell of our own.
Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find.
They do not know that "our own felicity we make is final, and that through the cultivation of individual inherency and personal sufficiency.
The constant noise of our own guns is really worse on the nerves than the shell; there is the deafening noise, and the constant whirr of shells going overhead.
Repeated experiments with it determined me that in searching for a high explosive, Perry had stumbled upon a fire-extinguisher that would have made his fortune for him back in our own world.
It is the purpose of the Mahars thus to raise a force of our own kind to combat the growth and menace of the new empire of which I have come to seek information.
Eras of barbarism have overtaken civilizations as pretentious as our own-- intellectual nights in which the patiently acquired learning of ages was lost.
Loving others more than our proper selves, their wounds are deeper far than our own hurts, and death to them is death and hell to us.
Given these two prime luxuries, the nature of the country where we are to live is, I had almost said, indifferent; after that inside the garden, we can construct a country of our own.
At the foot of our own companion, just where I found Blackwood, Jones and the bo's'un were now engaged in talk.
For instance: I have rarely been able to visit, in the proper spirit, the wild and inhospitable places of our own Highlands.
For our horses were of our own breeding, our arms of our own forging, and our clothes of our own cutting out and sewing.
Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men's defaults!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our own" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
