How would you like," said the editor, after a short reflection, "to allow us to publish the stories you have recently written under some other name than your own?
Are you sure you was nursed up by your own mother?
I am afraid that I must leave you to your own devices, as the appearance of TWO inquiring strangers upon a sleepy countryside might excite more gossip than I care for.
I would only ask you now, sir, whether you have formed any explanation in your own mind as to the mysterious disappearance of your son?
In the meantime I will do a little quiet work at your own doors, and perhaps the scent is not so cold but that two old hounds like Watson and myself may get a sniff of it.
And, finally, would you take the great pains to conceal the body and yet leave your own stick as a sign that you were the criminal?
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Most people and most of you are threatened completely by your own sexuality.
Initially, the first few years, we're just trying to get basic obstructions out of the way, get your ideas of selfhood out of the way, just open you up to your own perfection.
I'm glad you spoke out--glad for my sake as well as your own.
Tooth and claw then--not sheathed but naked--not by proxy but in your own person.
Not another word will I say upon the subject; but if you come back to it yourself, then be it on your own head.
If you don't like my way, you may try some way of your own.
Besides, this fellow is such a mixture of qualities, that I could never give you any idea of him by myself; and so I just try to repeat to you what he says, and what he does, so that you may build up your own picture of the man.
You keep on assuring me that you like it; so on your own head be it if you find my experiences gradually developing into a weariness.
Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses of your own--who has not?
Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the last time to explain yourself clearly on two points.
Jean Valjean sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do go to your own quarters!
But it is understood everywhere that you are going to take poor Mr. Boldwood's farm on your own account.
Mr. Fray here drew up his features to the mild degree of melancholy required when the persons involved in the given misfortune do not belong to your own family.
I fear I am too old for you, but believe me I will take more care of you than would many a man of your own age.
So now you can go ahead and be a person on your own account," she added.
What you want, Hirst, you know, is the society of young women of your own age.
It is entirely necessary to be interested in your own story, to enjoy it as you tell it.
Why don't you keep to your own part of the forest?
And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
You never had the least, least reason to think I would marry you, and now, according to your own words, you think you have less.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "your own" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
