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Example sentences for "own house"

  • So to my own house, where I staid a while and then to dinner with Mr. Shepley at my Lord's lodgings.

  • After dinner to my own house, where all things were put up into the dining-room and locked up, and my wife took the keys along with her.

  • So home with Mrs. Jem by coach and then home to my own house.

  • It would not suffice to be master in one's own house; one must be master of all things in order to give oneself all that one wishes; for one does not find everything in one's own house.

  • This way is blocked: for all that one might wish to play master in one's own house, that has no determining effect, nor does it favour one course more than the other.

  • Now when will I provide for my own house also?

  • Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

  • I have just parted with her at my own house.

  • I was encountered not only in my own house but in society generally, and on the very streets of Gladstonopolis, by the expression of an opinion that Crasweller would not be made to retire to the college at his Fixed Period.

  • But I was not sorry to have Eva here in my own house, as she was about to become my daughter-in-law.

  • I decline to go to my own house," I said.

  • The following day occurred a most disagreeable scene in my own house at dinner.

  • It is an odd sensation to be walking up and down on the watch outside one's own house.

  • They shall kill me before I betray a man in my own house.

  • I have enemies--I do not even feel safe in my own house.

  • Allowing three months on the sea, going and coming, and two months at my own house, which will suffice for my affairs, I need not be from Paris but between five and six months.

  • When I left my own house in October, 1783, it was to attend Congress as a member, and in expectation of returning in five or six months.

  • When I left my own house, I expected to be absent but five months, and I have been led by events to an absence of five years.

  • I am no happier in my own house than in a hotel.

  • I have not the remotest idea of how to make a cup of coffee or disconnect the gas or water mains in my own house.

  • I did not seem even to belong in my own house unless my clothes matched the wall paper!

  • Once outside my own house, however, I am out for myself and nobody else, however much I may protest that I have all the civic virtues and deceive the public into thinking I have.

  • I enjoined the goods to be sent to my own house, whence they were removed to Don Diego's new abode and I took especial care to leave with the good lady no clew to discover Alvarez and his daughter, otherwise than through me.

  • Thou knowest that I am not master in my own house, and my mother is torn between two purposes: whether to wait still in patience for her lord's coming, or to choose a new husband from the noblest of the suitors.

  • This is no tavern, but my own house, and I will not suffer my guest to be wronged by word or deed under my roof.

  • I claim not the kingdom," answered Telemachus firmly, "but I am resolved to be master in my own house.

  • One looks such a fool carrying on that kind of thing in one's own house.

  • I'm master enough of my own house, I suppose, to be able to manage that.

  • No doubt she fancied I returned immediately to my own house.

  • If the wind stand here at the westward, I hope to have you in Lucy's own house in Wall street, by to-morrow evening.

  • But I choose to be master in my own house, that's all.

  • I had put the child to nurse over against my own house; the noise kept his nurse waking till one or two in the morning.

  • There I saw it was my own house, all in a light blaze, and nothing but a door between the flame and the staircase.

  • I'll show him I can be master, and will, in my own house.

  • I can do no less than follow her; for though I like to be treated with respect in my own house, there is a time for every thing.

  • I should be sorry that Miss Portman, from any thing that has passed, should run away with the idea that I am a niggardly husband, or a tyrant, though I certainly like to be master in my own house.

  • I have not even the shadow of power left in my own house!

  • I would gladly have offered my own house, but it was still some miles distant, and the young woman was so weak, and trembled so violently, that it would plainly be impossible to conduct her so far on foot.

  • When I regained my senses, I was in my carriage, supported by the arms of my wife, and rolling up the avenue to my own house.

  • I followed slowly, not wishing to come up with him, turning into a by-road which led toward my own house--and knew nothing of the murder until it was bruited abroad on the next day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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