He had been guardian of many orphans of land-owning families from the three southern provinces--ever since the year 1860.
I am trying to persuade all our great ship-owning firms to come to us for their men.
In company with others, Mr. Haldeman also bought the royalty of the John McClintock farm for ten thousand dollars in gold, the Irishman owning it thinking nothing but gold worth having.
Though owning at one time or another such a large fleet of vessels, the casualties to them were very few, and the enterprise has proved steadily remunerative.
Philpot and Warner owning two-thirds of the entire stock.
Shall I risk disgracing myself for ever in your eyes by owning that I am getting just a little bit frightened?
I, for my part, was owning to myself that it would take a very strong motive indeed to induce me to adventure my carcase again within the alluring depths of that confounded tagati pool, for so it now seemed.
Well, if I've been uncivil I'll not be above owning it," said Kendrew.
There, you see--I am not above owning to my own small meannesses.
He had asked me to watch out for a red car with a khaki-colored top, that might have two men in it, one of them owning to a glass eye.
Those owning cameras started to look around for openings where some promising view offered.
The little fellow was still there, standing with sturdy legs wide apart as if owning the scene; he laughed as he held toward the boy a key--a small key tied with a scarlet ribbon.
The Anglo-Saxon joy of land-owning stirred for the first time within him--he would go to his own place.
It was as unique as had been the fallen Credit Magellan without owning to a shadow of Credit Magellan's legitimacy.
Barbara," remarked Senator Hanway reprovingly, returning to the original bone of dispute, "why should you insist on this young man owning millions before he can think of Dorothy?
The persons owning or operating a mine shall not hinder or obstruct such examination or survey, if made at a reasonable time, and in a reasonable manner, and as provided by law.
We might as well talk of poor men owningherds of cattle and studs of horses, as gangs of negroes.
Those not admitted were those known to be exploiters and “tight-fists,” those owning commercial or industrial concerns, and those hiring labor.
The whole appeal of the Bolsheviki, so far as the peasant was concerned, was to the element corresponding to the proletariat, owning nothing.
The mine-owning capitalists were a very small class, but powerful by their wealth, their intelligence, and their influence over those whom they employed.
You know men well enough to be certain that I wouldn't be tied to one woman for the sake of owning a few head of cows--not if I didn't want her for herself.
Did it ever strike you as queer that Slade could come into this country twelve years back, with nothing but a long rope and a running iron, and be owning thirty thousand head to-day?
The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company had the extraordinary advantage of owning inter-bedded coal and iron; that is to say, coal and iron in the same spot.
The old chattel-slave-owning aristocracy of the South, which was the backbone of the Democratic party, has been supplanted by a child-slave plutocracy.
I hope the Saints will ever be a home owning people, and never become roamers, roomers and renters.
As soon as the order for mobilization went out it was flashed from the Russian border to Alsace and Lorraine, and from that minute every car worth owning in the entire German country would be the property of the Government.
Then who knows but what we might be lucky enough to run across some man owning a car, who would either rent it to us or give us a lift to the border.
With such a contrite culprit owning up to his faults what could Thad say?
If his owning thousands of slaves merely had nursed in him a forgetfulness of God, the seer would not have hesitated so to inform him.
The deduction is, that slavery exists in the world by Divine appointment; and that the act of owning slaves is in conformity with the moral law.
Individuals owning double nationality bear in the language of diplomatists the name sujets mixtes.
The method resolved on was certainly one of the most extraordinary ever used by a civilized government in modern times, and the very last which could have been expected of one owning Mr. Gladstone as its chief.
They are very good knights and great archers, and they have many other kinds of arms with which they defend themselves from the Moors, without owning any king or lord to govern them.
Higher up this river, on either bank there are many pretty towns, plentifully supplied, and owning much cultivated land and flocks.
Somehow on the visits she had paid her home during the last year these aspects were obscured by the consciousness of no longer owning any right to them.
But none of them was tamed until tribes owning animals which had been tamed for ages appeared in Africa; and then the already-tamed animals were accepted in their stead.
