Owning

Examples

• They were rather on the level of the great land-owning dukes and peers of France and England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If I say what you tell me to say to him--I am owning that I have degraded myself to his face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Owning everything in common, even to your women and children, has resulted in your owning nothing in common. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But how does this affect your owning the Grange? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The managing director of the English railroad owning this line was Forbes, who heard I was coming over, and placed the private saloon at my disposal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But if it is our umbleness, I hope you won't mind owning to it, Master Copperfield; for we are well aware of our condition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I gave you one opportunity after another of owning the truth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You could no longer bear the idea of this ruffian owning her? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Checker: Millicent