Owed

Examples

• The furniture for which he owed would not want renewing; nor even the stock of wine for a long while. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was extremely difficult, I heard, to make out what he owed, or what he had paid, or of what he died possessed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I owed her gratitude. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Have you forgot, Marianne, how many pleasant days we have owed to them? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She knew how each tenant of the cottages paid or owed his little rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But I think I'll have one minute more of what I am owed, if you don't mind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• As we have already seen, the Royal Society and Milton's Academies owed their origin to the Great Rebellion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Much of this development he may have owed to his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He had made a small fortune for a boy, and felt that he owed it largely to his use of the telegraph. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His little school, his little church, his little parsonage, all owed their erection to him; and they did him credit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She owed her greatest relief to her friend Miss Lucas, who often joined them, and good-naturedly engaged Mr. Collins's conversation to herself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• In fact, as a duty that he owed to Society. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I wish he had let it off, says the benevolent old man, and blown his head into as many pieces as he owed pounds! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It would be incompatible with what she owed to her father, and with what she felt for him. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Practically all were Zodangans, and it was I to whom Zodanga owed her defeat at the hands of the green hordes and her subsequent vassalage to Helium. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her imprudence, I am happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to herself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I owed it to myself to consider the chances against me before I confronted them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All I had possessed of this world's goods, of happiness, knowledge, or virtue--I owed to him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Besides, I owed you a little mystification, Lestrade, for your chaff in the morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The man to whom he owed the money went with him in a hackney-coach; and to pass the time they tossed who should pay the fare. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The fact is, he owed more money at London than at Paris; and he preferred the quiet little Belgian city to either of the more noisy capitals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rawdon was obliged to confess that he owed all these benefits to his wife, and to trust himself to her guidance for the future. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All the bills and accounts I owed I jabbed on one hook; and memoranda of all owed to myself I put on the other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I owed it to Marian to consult her before I spoke to Laura, and to be guided afterwards by her advice. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All that was good, all that was great in this modern Germany, she owed indeed to her schoolmasters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The cunning diplomatist smiled inwardly as he owned that he owed his fortune to it, and acknowledged that he at least ought not to cry out against it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I owed it to my wife to do all that lay in my power to lessen the risk. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My friend Ralph had kept me poor; he owed me about twenty-seven pounds, which I was now never likely to receive; a great sum out of my small earnings! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He owed a good deal in town, but his debts of honour were still more formidable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If they owed a duty to Betty Higden, of a surety that duty must be done. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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