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Forget-me-not, my ownest own, I can stand this misery no longer.

From The Head Girl at the Gables by Brazil, Angela

This is my ownest self that speaks to you now; that is—that is your friend, and it will never change!

From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Footner, Hulbert

Thou art entitled to the price of one basket of bastirma, and no more, from this my servant; but he, on his side, has a right to all thou ownest.

From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

“I can scarcely believe that my ownest father will very soon be back again; it is quite too beautiful.”

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

That thou owest quickly give, What thou ownest thou must leave, And those thou lovest best shall grieve, But all in vain for thee!

From Verses for Children and Songs for Music by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty