Owner

Examples

• But by the light of this summer day, Jarndyce, if you call upon the owner while you stay with me, you are likely to have but a cool reception. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was the owner of the Lunatic Asylum. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The owner of bank money cannot draw out bullion, without producing to the bank receipts for the quantity which he wants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All these things must be guarded against or a great loss to the owner is probable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Does Caliphronas know you are a yacht-owner? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Joe caught up his hat again, and ran with them to the Jolly Bargemen to restore them to their owner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The open struggle of the private property owner against the aggressions of the Prince begins in England far back in the twelfth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Somewhat later, the handle became pointed, and was engraved with bright, cut ornaments and a cartouch at the end in which were engraved the initials of the owner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Among them was the owner of a colliery in the north named Blackett, who built a number of engines for propelling coal-cars and used them at his mines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In February of 1897 the receiver sold the three Field patents to their original owner, and he in turn sold them to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The owner of Thornfield, she responded quietly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A shop fully equipped with electric machinery is the best possible kind of shop for employee as well as for the owner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The owner of the house, Mr. Tonkin, was an old friend of the Davy family, and very fond of Humphrey, but the amateur experiments were almost too much for him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He was a large employer of labour, he was a great mine-owner. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Ogden accepted, and McCormick became sole owner of the business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As soon as the loss of the wagons and horses was generally known, all the owners came upon me for the valuation which I had given bond to pay. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The telegraph was still under military control, not having been turned over to the original owners, the Southern Telegraph Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The air they claimed too, shared it up, parcelled it out to certain owners, they trespassed in the air to fight for it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He will take the slaves from their owners and make them his body-guard; these are his trusted friends, who admire and look up to him. Plato. The Republic.
• And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These are the two sorts of revenue of which the owners have generally most to spare. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Uncle Alfred isn't like you, and mamma isn't; and then, think of poor old Prue's owners! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It appears they are uneasy at the state of matters here in the north; they especially condemn the supineness and pusillanimity of the mill-owners. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But the owners of Lowick apparently had not been travellers, and Mr. Casaubon's studies of the past were not carried on by means of such aids. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• While he was doing this Stephenson was patiently building new locomotives, and trying to induce the mine-owners along the Tyne to replace their horse-cars with his engines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I asked what terms were to be offered the owners of the wagons; and I was desired to put on paper the terms that appeared to me necessary. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• One by one I raised the swords to my lips and buckled them again upon their owners. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was estimated that in 1770 there were fifteen thousand slaves in Britain, mostly brought over by their owners from the West Indies and Virginia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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