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“Nursie,” said Sibyl, two months after the events related in the last chapter, “mother says that when my ownest father comes back again we’ll be very rich.”

From Daddy's Girl by Meade, L. T.

If thou hadst done this thing thou ownest to, it had gone better with thee than now, when thou standest a liar and boaster in a filthy cause.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

I want to talk to you, my ownest Dad.

From Jane Allen: Right Guard by Bancroft, Edith

I won’t let anybody else christen my ownest pony.

From Daddy's Girl by Meade, L. T.

Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest; Spend less than thou ownest.

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver