Owners

Examples

• 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.
• Since this work was included, almost every sort of personal property, from key-rings to motor-cycles has been found and restored to the rightful owners. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the old faith of the kings, owners, and rulers of the opening twentieth century had faded under the actinic light of scientific criticism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The large brand made it possible for cowboys on horseback to separate the cattle of different owners, as the brand could be seen at some distance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Huge possibilities have remained undeveloped because of the opposition of owners, forestallers, and speculators to their economical exploitation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To you, to the clergy perhaps, but not to us mill-owners. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They were grateful to those others, the pioneers, the new owners, who had opened out the pits, and let forth this stream of plenty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Its benefits were intercepted by the bigger private owners. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He says, too, that mill-owners are unpopular. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here he is, he continued, as we made our way into the weighing enclosure, where only owners and their friends find admittance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• This success inflamed the wood owners and the charcoal burners and they destroyed Dudley's works. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ph?nician shipping under Egyptian owners was making its way into the East Indies and perhaps even further into the Pacific. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She knew enough now to understand many local interests--nay, even some of the technical words employed by the eager mill-owners. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The mine-owners in some cases so ught to suppress the news of fatalities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Stephenson now changed his position from that of an employee of coal-owners to that of employer of many miners himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the case of cargo vessels, the owners are able to get into touch with them at any point of their voyage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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