Possessing

Usage examples of owning.

He remained with us for about a year and then went to New York, where he purchased a little place on the Hudson, where I visited him once a year on the occasions of my trips to the New York market--my father and I owning and operating a string of general stores throughout Virginia at that time.

owning everything in common, even to your women and children, has resulted in your owning nothing in common.

French made no scruple of owning, that they intended to make a powerful descent on Great Britain early in the spring.

Dutch ships were restored, after their commanders acknowledged their fault, in owning themselves the aggressors.

Pontus itself to owning the best part of the lands around the Euxine Sea.

In olden days all of Italy had aspired to eventual owning of Latin Rights and then the full citizenship, for Rome under the doughty and brilliant leadership of men like Appius Claudius Caecus had been conscious of the necessity of change, the prudence in seeing all Italy eventually become properly Roman.

And, owning it, treated it more pitilessly than a crazed drunkard the wife he hates.

They were undecked biremes sitting low in the water, two men to an oar, each owning a skimpy sail.

Perhaps, thought Curio cynically, because he radiated masculinity without owning beauty of face.

Pompey, with the interest of a cruel boy in a group of insects owning potentially detachable wings.

They also related to a mystical enclave of people who occupied the eastern Delta, the Land of Onias, separate and complete in itself and owning no allegiance to the religious beliefs of either Macedonia or Egypt.

Rural Head Count, though owning a valuable rural tribal vote, could rarely afford to come to Rome at election time.

Goudar warned me to be careful of owning to the fact, as two witnesses would suffice to undo me.

No more could a man boast of owning five million acres of unfenced land and cattle so numerous he could not count them.

He wanted things left as they were, with him owning his eighty thousand acres and with the government intruding as little as possible.