162 examples of not his own in sentences

[Footnote 9: 'You have cause to fear when you consider his greatness: his will &c.' 'You must fear, his greatness being weighed; for because of that greatness, his will is not his own.']

By no means; for no man is damaged by an action which is not his own; but what happened at that time was only the destruction of stork's nests.

He imputeth his want and poverty to the ignorance of the time, not his own unworthiness; and concludes his discourse with half a period, or a word, and leaves the rest to imagination.

When he walks with his friend he swears to him that no man else is looked at, no man talked of, and that whomsoever he vouchsafes to look on and nod to is graced enough; that he knows not his own worth, lest he should be too happy; and when he tells what others say in his praise, he interrupts himself modestly and dares not speak the rest; so his concealment is more insinuating than his speech.

It was pitifully mean; but whom has not his own hidden lust made to crawl like a thief, afraid of a shadow, in his own house?

But for that there was the master-key that unlocks all wards, and a little further on we read, 'One of the verses that helps to keep my faith steady is, "He that spared not His own Son."

Had not his own perversity taken his fate out of her hands?

Looking at the matter in another way, Poe's style is not his own at all.

[Illustration: ON THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER] By guaranteeing three dollars per day to any man who would get supplies to the mountain camps, and fifty dollars in addition to each man who should carry a helpless child, not his own, back to the settlement, Mr. Eddy secured the services of Hiram Miller, who had just come down with the Second Relief; and Mr. Foster hired, on the same terms, Mr. Thompson from the relay camp.

Take Crockett into some other bedroom, not his own, and let your son look after him.

Mr. Tyrrel would not, perhaps, have so easily given up his point, had not his own good sense presently taught him, that, however eager he might be for revenge, this was not the ground he should desire to occupy.

Yes, my friends, we are members of a body; and we must realize that fact by painful experience, if we refuse to realize it in public spirit and brotherly kindness, and the approval of a good conscience, and the knowledge that we are living like our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, who laboured for all but Himself, cared for all but Himself; who counted not His own life dear to Himself that by laying it down

Let his baptismal drops for us atone; Lustrations for offences not his own.

The venturous knight is from the saddle thrown; But 'tis the fault of Fortune, not his own, If crowds and palms the conquering side adorn, The victor under better stars was born: The brave man seeks not popular applause,

They briefly compare actions by a kind of compound adverbs, ending in like; as, "Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before?

Do you think that I will take a step that shall look like robbing my child of his honest name,that will seem to imply a doubt that he is not his own father's honest boy,that he is not a fitting heir to the property which his forefathers have owned so long?

As a shepherd, tending not his own sheep but those of his master, he is answerable for those that stray, and that lose themselves by straying.

As for his style,' said the critic, 'no one can deny that is his own, and he will last by his style; as for his philosophy, and all these wild opinions of his, they will pass away, because they are not genuine, they are not his own, they are borrowed.

The creature, whoever it was, was perfectly furious, and one could hear him muttering "29, yes it's 29," and then fearful oaths, and at last, with a shove, he wrenched down the crazy door and got into the room and I suppose was too sleepy or drunk to notice it was not his own, and retired to the Senator's bed!

They are altogether wrong; for what god, who is not his own god, can deserve respect from man?

It was a secret that would have been the sweeter for being shared with some one else, he felt, but Johan's peculiar attitude in this matter had filled him with a shyness not his own by nature.

" "Well, suppose then it was not his own hat, and he was throwing stones at it without the owner's consent, would it be plain in that case whether he was doing right or wrong?

By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Why he is a colonel in the Life-guards, and the Princess's equerry; and who has a right to know about the child if not his own sisteror half-sister?" "She is not a very loving sister," replied Anne.

He cast a hasty thought back into his past, when he had driven a careening stage between Pinnacle and Lund, strewing the steep trail with wreckage not his own.

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