Example Sentences

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But while I am owning to a good deal that seems to me lamentably wrong in the behavior of the Boy's Town boys, I ought to remember one or two things to their credit.

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean

If I say what you tell me to say to him—I am owning that I have degraded myself to his face.

From The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie

“To your goodness,” the boy wrote to Washington, “I am owning the most beautiful prospect I may ever behold.”

From Erskine Dale?Pioneer by Fox, John

"I am owning to a fault, making a clean breast of my sins, not without a faint hope that I am setting an example that will be beautifully and bountifully followed."

From Salthaven by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)