Owned

Examples

• Indisputably, Mr. Home owned manly self-control, however he might secretly feel on some matters. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Riderhood began to have an air of being better at a guess than Bradley owned to being. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, owned by the North German Lloyd Company, and built in 1897, is shown in Fig. 114, and for three years held the record as the fastest steamship afloat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He owned it to me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A plot organised among the Indians who originally owned the jewel, says Mr. Franklin-- a plot with some old Hindoo superstition at the bottom of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She had set her mind on the Major more than on any of the others, she owned, sobbing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I forbear to tell what he was going to do to that Bedouin that owned it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It owned great properties and often hoarded huge treasures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Had he never owned his affection to yourself? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The gist of the socialist proposal is that land and all the natural means of production, transit, and distribution should be collectively owned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was Don Federico Gonzalez, who owned the mill and feed store and was a fascist of the first order. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The tribe, or the chief as the head of the tribe, owned the grazing lands; forest and rivers were the wild. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These works were owned by me and my assistants until sold to the Edison General Electric Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Judy never owned a doll, never heard of Cinderella, never played at any game. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The previous statement which she had made to him was a falsehood--a wicked falsehood--she owned it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Roylands, said Maurice, pushing back his chair into its former place, is a large park formerly owned by one of the Plantagenet kings. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But when he owned to being puzzled, a comforting doubt crossed my mind whether any great harm had been done after all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And Jos owned with a sigh, that for good streaky beef, really mingled with fat and lean, there was no country like England. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Duke owned a great estate, of untold mineral wealth, which had never been properly worked because of lack of transportation facilities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I had believed you to be guilty (as I have owned), more because I wanted you to be guilty than for any other reason. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The exhibition gave every sign of proving a failure when one of the spectators called out that he owned the next field and would be glad to give McCormick a chance there. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He went first, I believe, with his half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Platinum even in those days was very expensive, costing several dollars an ounce, and I owned only three small strips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The north and east owned a terrific influence, making all pain more poignant, all sorrow sadder. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My lady, who was also in the secret no doubt, and who alone had access to Miss Rachel, owned openly that she could make nothing of her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You owned to an old admiration of her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• As he told the story, there was a Mr. Ralston living within a few miles of the village, who owned a colt which I very much wanted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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