Nearly a hundred passengers left New York in the Pacific, the captain and owner being obliged to slink on board, to avoid attachments sued out against them by other passengers who were dissatisfied and left behind.
It had passed every ordeal grandly, and it was handed back to its owner with the comforting assurance, "It will do.
There is no economy in the joint ownership of a uniform; the nominal owner is niggardly in purchase and the wearer careless in use.
Harold Leighton, the present owner of Stoneleigh, was more of a recluse than any of his predecessors.
But Mrs. Quayle's extraordinary headgear, architecturally deceptive and insecure, proved so hopelessly difficult that its estimableowner was forced to do without the adornment of tin and kerosene provided for her.
The fairy-like spot obviously had some prosaic owner who was there to enjoy what was his--or hers.
Once more she shuddered, for she was standing upon one of several small Persian rugs dotted about the dark polished floor, and from the woman's description she knew that she must be where the former owner of the house had lain dead.
Then by very small degrees the woman's forehead and the rest of the face appeared, with the eyes showing the white all round, as their owner gazed at the prisoner with her usual scared look intensified.
The owner of these six cripples did not take a prize.
The owner of the voice hurried out like a beam of sunshine on the dull grey morning, and taking the Doctor's arm tried to keep step with him, after glancing up in his stern face, her own looking merry and arch with its dimples.
The mates had walked all night, and at daybreak they reached the house of the head man, employed by the owner of Easter Island.
Tapu," it said, which means taboo, or keep away; and farther on a notice in French that the owner forbade any one to enter upon his land.
But tread not on the domain of the scientist, for he will prove to you that each separate queerness is only a trick of nature to fit its owner to the necessities of his habitat.
The pastor and I, with the owner of the Atimaona plantation and a Mr. Davey, had had an appetizer a moment before.
Accustomed as I was to semi-nudity and to white men's return to nature, I had never seen a man who so well fitted into the landscape as the owner of the ape.
Of course Andy did not venture on taking Owny's horse home; so the miller sent him to his owner with an account of the accident.
Three weeks previously their owner was deposited in the cold church-yard of Great Marlow, in the grave, we are assured, of the Spotted Boy.
It is a proud thing to be an esquire, the owner of broad acres, to walk over fields you can call your own, to speak of your domain and your country house, of your Hurlepoer Hall, and the parts and appurtenances thereunto pertaining.
But all these blessings will be prized according to the mind within: Well used, the owner finds them good; if badly used, he deems them ill.
I die, and wan'er about a treasure-grave till a captain come back, or another take my place, or a right owner come for his own.
The parcel turned out to be a nice brown-bread loaf, off which the owner cut a small slice, and carefully put it on a plate by his side.
Amos Opie, the carpenter, owner of Opal Farm, is now keeping widower's hall in the summer kitchen thereof.
The owner of this house sent me to Pan Yosef as to a man who knows the address and the fate of Countess Leocadia N----.
I have never paid rent, I was enraged whenever rent was even mentioned, and I never could accustom any house-owner to refuse taking it.
Owner of a penny, no soul among us shall be rightly an outcast.
Looks were cast from the French section of the table at the owner of the prodigious organ.
My dear, you are a good girl to call me Dartrey,' the ownerof the name said to Nesta.
You make yourself at home," answered the ownerof a large per cent of the stock of the famous Bird Cage mine.
Since you're the second largest owner you've a right to recognition on the board of directors.
This information Clay got the owner of the car to forward to the police.
The mine owner had wanted to go on the bond of Bromfield, but his offer had been rejected.
The owner of the store dwelt on the merits of the suit, its style, its durability, the perfect fit.
The owner of the voice came in and slammed the door behind him.
You wouldn't get into trouble," argued the mine owner impatiently.
We're coming in, you know," the owner of the Bird Cage told him in answer to his explanation of why his master could not be seen.
The owner of the place rose in alarm from the stool where he was sitting.
An unshaven head was lifted in the lower bunk to see why the sleep of its owner was being disturbed.
The ownerof the mouth-organ is temporarily deflated.
Miss Jackson, the science-mistress, went to Vancouver, married the owner of a lumber camp, and so tamed her soul.
It was generally believed that the owner of it, Sir Wilfrid Lang, had exhausted his resources in restoring it, and that it was the pressure of debt rather than his wife's health which had led to its being shut up so long.
Nothing was ever kept warm for her, the owner of the house; everything was always kept warm for Gertrude.
Then you couldn't do better than take one of these Mausers," the owner of the shop, an Englishman, replied.
Then they returned, and were chatting with the owner of the hotel when a stranger, to all appearance an English colonist, entered, and without invitation joined in the conversation.
The will of the late owner of the house was then produced.
Ship-owner Monsen declared that Bjerregrav had recalled the money during his lifetime.
Mackenzie, in his history of the nineteenth century, says that nearly two-thirds of the French householders are landowners, while only one British householder in every four is an owner of land.
The owner of an industry protected by a high tariff would scarcely be considered a reliable witness in matters affecting tariff reform.
As trustee under deed or private agreement, a contract is entered into between the company and the owner of the property, by which the title to the property is vested in the corporation subject to the terms recited in the instrument.
Two exceptions are continually made; documents or goods have to be taken up against cash, and the owner before parting wishes to be certain of his money.
One of Uncle Sam's bluejackets who went down on the ill-fated submarine F-4 was the owner of a substantial postal savings account.
The owner of the property then offers the bonds for sale through a broker, and in this way obtains the desired funds.
Similarly, it appeared that the business of insuring titles to land was one which could be most economically conducted by a corporation which, in its capacity of trustee, would be a large owner of real estate.
Almost every owner of property found that the price of his possessions had increased, and almost every wage-earner found that his pay was advanced.
The truth is that silver in 1873, and during a generation before that date, was worth more to its owner in the form of bullion than in the form of coin.
The amount of it for which the owner of any article would part with his possession was always uncertain.
In the early spring of 1865 I wanted a horse, and a friend having one to spare, I sent for the animal, offering to pay whatever the owner should ask for it.
If after a prolonged drought a thunderstorm threatens, what would be the consequence if the wise mayor of a town should attempt to meet the danger of fire by distributing the available water, giving each house owner one pailful?
The plan under which they all operate is the following: The owner of land who desires to raise money on mortgage approaches the bank and requests an investigation and appraisal, the expenses of which he usually pays.
He is in a sense the owner of merchandise of all kinds, and both trade and financial news has equal significance to him.
Would a foreigner believe that the owner of this terrible voice is really one of the best?
It has what is known as a hunting cabin, it being so called, I think, because the moment anybody gets into it he has to get out again while the owner crawls in and takes up all the seats and hunts for something.
I've seen theowner crank her until his backbone comes unjointed, without getting any response whatsoever.
One might fear them, and that fear might cause the precise thing to happen which the owner of the eyes intended.
Whether it was in the eyes themselves or in the way that she used them, there could be no mistake about the almost hypnotic power that their owner possessed.
I do not think that the breach of the seventh commandment can be shown to have been of advantage to the legitimate owner of his affections.
There would still be no dull moments for Lance when he confronted the owner of that pinto team.
He knew every draw and dry wash, every creek bottom and every canyon on the Black Rim range; knew almost as well as the owner how many cattle carried every brand.
These principles for the guidance of the owner of property are not collected under any single heading in the Summa, but must be gathered from the various sections dealing with man's duty to his fellow-men and to himself.
The right of property and of the property owner are assumed.
This is the reason why the mediæval writers did not find it necessary to discuss in detail the rights of the owner of money who used it for productive purposes.
In either case the right of the owner of the money to reap a profit from the operation was unquestioned, provided only that he was willing to share the risks of loss.
The importance of the duty of almsgiving further appears from the section where Aquinas lays down that the person to whom alms should have been given may, if the owner of the goods neglects his duty, repair the omission himself.
In this way the schoolmen were strictly logical; they fully admitted that wealth could produce wealth; but they insisted that that additional wealth should accrue to the owner of the wealth that produced it.
The owner of property, as we shall see, was bound to observe certain duties in respect of its acquisition and its consumption, and certain other duties in respect of its exchange, whether it consisted of goods or of money.
But when money was lent, the owner of this money was the borrower, and therefore, when money which was lent was employed in such a way as to produce a profit, that profit belonged to the borrower, not the lender.
It was not until the individual owner had sold his goods and placed the proceeds in the common fund that any question of communism arose.
While the owner of property has therefore an absolute right to the goods he possesses, he must at the same time remember that this right is established primarily on his power to benefit his neighbour by his proper use of it.
He made no comment on the gossip, but when it came his turn to be examined before Colonel Macleod, he swore that Burroughs was the owner of the seized liquor and that he had been employed to drive these men North.
If reports were true that was also the hand which would write the valedictory next year, and which was now secretly at work upon a book which would some day place its owner in the ranks with George Eliot and Thackeray.
