Then said the lad, lying on the grass beside me, "Father, who owns the mountains?
The poor art student who wanders through his gallery, lingering with awe and love before the masterpieces, owns them far more truly than Midas does.
His tongue is the tongue of a saint, and, even when he owns to any doubtful transaction, he takes care to let you know that he was actuated by the sweetest and purest motives.
The Chinaman will play for his life; the Red Indian recklessly piles all he owns in the world upon the rough heap of goods which his tribe wager on the result of a pony race.
Cannes is beautiful, but agreeable only if one owns a villa and knows the people.
The ancestor of Prince Salm Krybourg, who now owns the spot, was the last victim of the guillotine and sleeps here with all the others.
The old woman who owns it certainly makes more racket over her cans than she would have done over a baby.
When the railways push into the Athabaska and the Peace, it will be realized that Alberta owns an empire north of the Saskatchewan, a country set apart by nature to provide homes for millions of agrarian people.
The city owns its park and has a fine educational system, including a Collegiate Institute.
The city is beautifully located, and owns its electric light plant, waterworks, and sewerage system.
Each cathedral owns large tracts; so do the schools and universities in which the clergy are educated.
Each church owns land--not merely that upon which it stands, but farms and city lots from which it derives income.
A crook named Skidder owns the property; but we can't do anything with him.
But his father owns slaves, and Tom never stole a horse.
He owns a lot of niggers, but last election he walked up to the polls, as brave as you please, and voted for Abe Lincoln; and there wasn't a man who dared say a word to him or lift a hand to stop him.
But grudge not, sailor, of driven sand to cast A handful on my head, that owns no grave.
The snow is fled: the trees their leaves put on, The fields their green: Earth owns the change, and rivers lessening run.
In addition to these payments, your father owns thirty-two thirty- acre farms which he has cleared from his logged-over lands.
Well, when better times arrive, you'll find that John Cardigan owns the only water-front property on this side of the bay where the water's deep enough to let a ship lie at low tide and load in safety.
Pennington owns the controlling interest in that bank, and I was never a man to waste my time.
He continued: "As I said before, Sylvester Bascom practicallyowns this house.
For a moment Maxwell was too astonished to speak; then he began: "Mr. Bascom owns this house?
Mr. Bascom owns the house, and you are staying here merely on sufferance.
They are administering extreme unction," said she, "to the nobleman who owns the castle.
While the Glen Alpine resort is not situated directly on one of the lakes, it owns over twenty boats on eight of the nearby lakes, and the use of these is freely accorded to its guests.
The Al-Tahoe Company owns its own electric generating plant and supplies all the cottages with electric light.
Housekeeping tents are provided, on platforms in the grove, at reasonable rates, and the hotel ownsits pasture in which the horses of patrons are cared for free of charge.
It owns its power-boat for excursions on the Lake, and its fleet of row-and fishing-boats.
Fallen Leaf is an ideal spot for rowing, canoeing, and launch rides, and the hotel owns its own launch in which parties are regularly taken around the lake.
And you don't even offer to fight the German who owns the alligator, either!
Does your cousin's uncle which owns the barn have a house anywheres near, where we could leave her?
You are like a man who owns the most beautiful diamond in the world, and is not allowed for some reason to be known as its owner, but is allowed to wear it only two hours a week, and then other people are allowed to wear it.
Bondo y Caporagua: Alonso Lopez--He owns the encomienda of the bay of Bondo y Caporagua, with five hundred whole tributes, or two thousand souls.
Bondo: Manila Hospital--Manila Hospital owns five hundred and forty more tributes, or two thousand one hundred and sixty souls, in the said province of Bondo.
Lagunoy: Rodrigo Arias--In the same province, Ensign Rodrigo Arias owns an encomienda of seven hundred whole tributes, or two thousand eight hundred persons.
At last she owns to fatigue, and Philip leaves her, while he goes in search of their carriage.
Even my wife in her righteous indignation owns that.
We's getting to the point where nearly all the people in my community owns their own pigs.
The Negro who to-day ownsand operates that large wholesale drug store, selling drugs to the white as well as colored retail druggists, was a slave, I think, until he was twelve or fifteen years of age.
Why, you folks, you make me blush to be an auctioneer, standing here on a horse-block and selling away from a little girl the only piece of stawk she owns for just eight dollars and fifty cents.
She owns a fine herd of animals and her stock-farm is one of her chief interests here.
If you hunt with some one whoowns the dogs, be very careful not to interfere with them by giving commands.
Cyclist: A scout must sign a certificate that he owns a bicycle in good working order, which he is willing to use in the scouts' service if called upon at any time in case of emergency.
There is not a writer of fiction at this hour, in any land where fiction is a recognised trade or art, who is not, whether he knows it and owns it, or no, largely influenced by Dickens.
Erasmus himself, in Conclusion, owns that none of them arrives to singular Erudition.
Gallinato owns he was this Day in Danger of losing his Honour; because the Colours, and all the Rest was in the utmost Peril.
A man who lives on a dollar a day, if he owns it or earns it, should vote; but the son who depends upon a rich father for support, and the pauper who lives upon public charity, should not vote.
I say, Monsieur Benoît, you must agree that that isn't the costume of a man who owns consols.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
