Now sayest thou to me, smiling and full of melancholy: "Which of usoweth thanks?
In the original edition of the authorized version of the Bible we read: "So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man thatoweth this girdle" (Acts xxi.
I cannot speak without tears of Toulouse; if she be not reduced to equal ruin, it is to the merits of her holy Bishop Exuperus that she oweth it.
Hopes he will consider the great loss Fastolf already sustains by 'the great good the King oweth me, and other divers Lords to my great discomfort.
Thou hast not been able to control thy affections; and to the strange novelties that have surrounded Ozema, as well as to her winning ingenuousness, I owe my loss, and she oweth her gain.
Spain oweth him her gratitude for the boldest and most beneficial enterprise of the age, and no good subject of the two sovereigns will hesitate to do him honor for his services.
God hath taught him; but let him note it down, and let him who oweththe debt dictate, and let him fear God his Lord, and not diminish aught thereof.
God can do no one wrong, and yet he forgiveth who oweth nothing.
How then ought he to forgive who is himself forgiven, when he forgiveth all who oweth nothing that can be forgiven him?
And therfore, certes, the lord oweth to his man that the man oweth to his lord.
Wel may he be sory thanne, that oweth al his lif to god as longe as he hath lived, and eek as longe as he shal live, that no goodnesse ne hath to paye with his dette to god, to whom he oweth al his lyf.
Why in so doing thou impliest, that mercy thou deservedst; and that is next door to, or almost as much as to say, God oweth me what I ask for.
For if it be thine as wages, it is no longer his to dispose of all pleasure; for that which another man oweth me, is in equity not at his, but at my disposal.
Courage, madame, I say courage, and beholde him heere which humbly praieth you to receiue him for your lawfull husband, and who sweareth vnto you all sutch amitye and reuerence that husband oweth to hys loyall spouse.
To be short, thou shalt pleasure vs to set our Lordes at Lyberty, and thou like a wyse man shalt doe thy duety, and satisfy a People which easily can not endure that a subiecte do wrong to those to whome he oweth obedience.
Henry Walton will aver that the said John Rastell oweth him the said 40s.
And where the said complainant in his said bill of complaint saith that he oweth not the said defendant the said 40s.
Yt is strang to see how we are misused by these Japons of Firando, and how that theefe Gorezano is mentayned to misuse us; and the justice will not compell hym to pay me that he oweth me.
Also I sent hym to Semidone to put hym in mind of 100 tais Goresano oweth upon acco.
And his errand was about the money the king oweth the Wor.
So I think he keepeth hym selfe out of way of purpose, for that he oweth som 250 taies to Hon^{ble} Company.
When thou shalt demand of thy neighbor any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge"; and again (Deut.
For if it be thine as wages, it is no longer his to dispose of at pleasure; for that which another man oweth me, is in equity not at his, but at my disposal.
Why in so doing thou impliest, that mercy thou deservest; and that is next door to, or almost as much as to say, God oweth me what I ask for.
This daye it is ordered that George Dugdale shall before Michaelmas next paye to Thomas Shephard v{s} w{ch} hee oweth him ORELS to be Committed to the Compter.
In many parishes a special collection for the "Robin Hood" penny is recorded, and in the Green Book we have: "Richard Beard owethto be paid at Lady Day in Lent 10s.
He oweth me a bout, and is too honest a man to rob even an enemy.
Thank the sun whence the lamp hath his light, and the ocean to whom the brook oweth his waters.
This Captain Merriman (who oweth me a pretty score for entertainment in this house), and this lad had a quarrel over a wench, and 'twas for that he pursued him as he did.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oweth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
