This last name owes its origin to its valley having been resorted to by the herdsmen of the country, for the attainment of a good range, or choice pasture-ground, for their cattle.
We've drawn a considerable amount already from one or two bookies, and I believe even Masters owes us a bit now.
The improved methods of modern cytology, and the great progress which this science of the cell owes to the microtome and to microchemistry with its delicate coloring processes, etc.
It is, like most of the dogmas and decrees which civilization owes to this powerful hierarchy, a curious tissue of old traditions and new fictions, political dogmas, and crass superstition.
Whittle Harvey, who was a power in his party and among the London cabbies--to whom the London cabby owes his badge V.
Rome owes to him, among other improvements, one of its longest and finest streets, bearing his name, where he began a series of palaces for public offices and the courts of justice, unfortunately never completed.
It always bore, in fine but sexless tracery, "From one who owes you much.
But Germany had the numbers and the equipment, and to numbers and equipment alone she owessuch successes as she has gained.
But, after all, there is no derogation from the liberty of the subject in being called upon to serve the State which protects him and to which he owes the very possibility of existence in peace and comfort.
Do you believe there is any duty that man owes to God that will prevent a man marrying the woman he loves?
By religion I mean the duties that men are supposed to owe to God; by religion I mean, not what man owes to man, but what we owe to some invisible, infinite and supreme being.
My Rodorick shall know, He owes his Julia to you; thank him, love; In faith I take it ill you are so slow.
Every thought you now have and every act and intention owes its complexion to the acts of your dead and living brothers.
But he told me enough for me to understand that you are his benefactor, too; that he owes you a great deal.
And she thinks that, being a neighbor, she owesme a visit.
And Blenheim owes not merely this water-scenery, but almost all its other beauties, to the contrivance of man.
Every good citizenowes it to his God and his country to stop, as far as he can, this moral desolation.
Every American youth owes his country his best talents and services, and should devote them to the country's welfare.
He owes this fame to the story of Medea and Jason, introduced in the third book of his version of the Argonautic expedition (275 seq.
The woman, we are informed, owes the husband obedience, and he can divorce her at pleasure.
You leave the city which owesits triumph to you so soon, and without taking time for rest?
Has she then forgotten that she owes the light of day to it?
If the Prince still lives, he owes it to the clemency of Hieyas.
Perhaps it is to some superstitious notion connected with the snake-stones that the town owes the three ammonites in its coat of arms.
British liberty owes something to this superabundance of water.
In our goings to and fro, we talked of other things as well as alum; of that other mineral wealth, the ironstone, to which Cleveland owes so important a development of industry within the past fifteen years.
I think he owes you an explanation," replied Rodolph.
These I find hard to pardon, for a man owes it to his comrades during besiegement to stand by them and not to be found coming up from the camp of the enemy.
Each new school, as it appears, cries out against criticism, but it is to the critical faculty in man that it owes its origin.
Ropsley is well aware that he owes much of his success in life to the hardness of his heart, and he is not a man to throw away a single point in the game for the sake of the sunniest smile that ever wreathed a fair false face.
He owes you everything and you say he can be trusted?
I am not afraid, sire, Stephen La Mothe owes everything to me.
We owe you much, France owes you much for this news.
He owesyou everything as you owe me, perhaps he will understand as you do?
I should have been sorry to have left Suffolk without the satisfaction of again seeing you; and my son, sensible of the high respect he owes you, was most unwilling to be gone, before he had paid you his devoirs.
I ever recover, shall I assist him in paying the gratitude he owes you!
In a Nation where there are so many publick Funds to be supported, I know not whether he can be called a good Subject, who does not imbark some part of his Fortune with the State, to whose Vigilance he owes the Security of the whole.
This is a Piece of Fortitude, which every one owes to his own Innocence, and without which it is impossible for a Man of any Merit or Figure to live at Peace with himself in a Country that abounds with Wit and Liberty.
He knows that he has lost it through the degradation that he owes to Hindley Earnshaw.
Villette owes its high place largely to its superior construction and technique; largely and primarily to Charlotte Brontë's progress towards the light, towards the world, towards the great undecorated reality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
