You may, I do not forget that I owe my life to you, nor that you are a gentleman.
To think that a Peters should be the hero to whom I owe my safety, and a Samuel should leave me this token of regard!
Leclerc was eager to receive proposals of peace,--to owe a respite to dissimulation itself, rather than continue the war, under his present difficulties.
We owe it to my friend Henri, here, that we have our horses.
And to you do we owe all--to you, possessed by a magnanimity of which we had not dared to dream!
Do they not know that they oweto him their lives, their homes, the prosperity of the island?
Villain, to thy faithlessness I owe the loss of my bride!
Friend, I owe my success to-day to thy kindness, and though it has not had the end for which I had both hoped and prayed, I ought not to thank thee less.
I owethee thanks for a well meant, and, but for the hardness of heart of the rich and powerful, for what would have proved a great kindness.
It is some evidence that the commands of holy church have not been neglected, that I now come to entreat favor in behalf of one to whom I owe my life.
But thy errand; I have no gage unredeemed, nor do I know that I owethee gold.
We owe something in the latter affair to a young Neapolitan, who sojourns here at Venice, and who is not without interest at the Holy See, by reason of his uncle, the Cardinal Secretary.
But here is no other duty than that they owe to God, and to the people.
We owe you a debt of gratitude," said Adelaide; "everything has been charmingly done.
I owe you, for last week, one franc; I owe you, for this, one.
We really owe a great debt to the two little doctors and to----" I stopped abruptly.
We can admire the genial divinations of an Abraham Ibn Ezra, but we also owe respect to that sincere faith of Rashi which was incapable of suspecting the testimony of tradition and the axioms of religion.
Science and devotion availed themselves of every possible medium-lectures and books, journals and reviews-to set forth all we owe to the illustrious Rabbi.
It was better to put her a thousand thanks in debt than owe her one.
In return for the money I owe you, take the watch which you will find on my body.
Not a few out in the world owe their fortune to me.
Damn the beast, if he had as many lives as a cat, he wouldowe them all to me!
As to you, friend Watson, I owe you every atonement for having allowed your natural curiosity to remain so long unsatisfied.
My dear Watson," said the well-remembered voice, "I owe you a thousand apologies.
The horse I had engaged, was a high spirited animal, and to that fact, I doubtless owe my life.
But, to what, my friends, do youowe all these blessings?
You owe them to that curse, that bitter scourge of Africa, whose partial abolishment you are this day convened to celebrate.
I owe much to the success that so signally crowned my mission, to his presence, testimony, and eloquent denunciation of the colonization scheme.
You see how much I may yetowe to him--to this infidel tailor.
At the close of his address he said: "I owe you much, my people.
I owe him more, for it was given him, who knew not God, to teach us how to know Him better.
The amount of money I owe is really something shocking.
I owe you three hundred dollars, I believe," remarked Peters, laying down the bills.
Evidently they were not pleased that she should owe so great a debt to so plebeian a source.
I forgot myself--I forgot everything but that I owe you my life.
This fact also we doubtless owe to the sisterly interposition that has been so vigilant and active regarding her welfare," he concluded, bitterly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
