What is "of his own"

Usage examples of "of his own".

At first he thought of precipitating himself upon the sleeping wretch and pinioning him, but a second glance at the sinewy, though wasted, limbs forbade him to follow out the rash suggestion of his own fears.

Yet I think there are cases in which a man who loved would be justified in making a woman happy at the risk of his own--soul, I suppose.

Frere measured the distance from his eye, and an irrepressible feeling of admiration, rising out of his own skill in athletics, took possession of him for an instant.

Your son married me of his own free will, and even his mother can have nothing to say to him which it is not my duty and privilege to hear.

But Frere laughed, caught both the child's hands in one of his own, and kissed her again and again, despite her struggles.

He rejoiced in his muscular strength, and, in many a tavern brawl and midnight riot of his own provoking, had proved the fallacy of the proverb which teaches that a bully is always a coward.

The first thought--that this heap of rags and bones was a mute witness to the folly of his own undertaking, the corpse of some starved absconder--gave place to a second more horrible suspicion.

Suppose he could not only make use of his own talents to rob mankind, but utilize those of others also?

It was the mention of his own name, coupled with that of the woman he had met on the quarter-deck, that roused him.

Carlton was left with partial hemiplegia and a bankruptcy suit of his own.

He had settled his daughter's portion--ten thousand pounds--upon herself and children, and had informed Frere that he expected him to live upon an income of his own earning.

As one whom in a desert, seeking for a face, should come to a pool of blood, and seeing his own reflection, fly--so would such a one hasten from the contemplation of his own degrading agony.

He had intended, in the first instance, to have taken but one sup in payment of his courtesy--for Gimblett was conscious of his own weakness in the matter of strong waters-- but as he waited and waited, the one sup became two, and two three, and at length more than half the contents of the bottle had moistened his gullet, and maddened him for more.

The windows of his own house were no longer boarded up, the chimney no longer fallen.

He had lost a part of his own physical being: He was hollow inside, as though the very meat and bone at the core of him had been torn out and replaced by a void, black and cold.