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Owing partly to the old-fashioned ideas of Dr. Gilman, and partly to the conservatism of its vestry, the institutionalism of St. John's was by no means up to date. [9]
Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never occurred to him. [2]
Owing to some remarks on this subject, made in my work 'On the Variation of Animals under Domestication,' Mr. W.F. [1]
Owing to the relation which exists between muscular development and the projection of the brows (1. [1]
Owing to the rapidity of the French flight and the Russian pursuit and the consequent exhaustion of the horses, the chief means of approximately ascertaining the enemy's position--by cavalry scouting--was not available. [2]
Owing to the peculiar situation of Japan and the anomalous form of its Government, the action of that empire in performing treaty stipulations is inconstant and capricious. [7]
Owing to the humiliating conditions imposed upon him by the French Minister of Marine, Commodore Jones did not have absolute command. [9]
Owing to the frequent consultations which these preparations made necessary the Celebrity was much in the company of my client, which he came greatly to prefer to mine, and I therefore abandoned my determination to leave Asquith. [9]
Owing to the extreme heat of the season, and my own indisposition, none of the subjects were examined after death. [3]
Owing to our explanations constantly vibrating between the same points, an irksome repetition of words must occur; also the use of capital letters, genders, and technicalities peculiar to the science. [5]

Sentences ending with owing

In my judgment, it is to the battles of this new class of champions that our late success is greatly, perhaps chiefly, owing. [7]

Sentences containing owing two or more times

This night there was increased alertness, owing to the escape of Carbourd; and himself, if not more closely watched, was at least open to quick suspicion owing to his known friendship for Carbourd. [11]

More example sentences with the word owing in them

It was no wonder that the Hollisters were Democrats, for they had a queer streak in them; owing, no doubt, to the fact that old Mr. Jules Hollister's mother had been a Frenchwoman. [9]
In young persons whose heads have become fixed either sideways or backwards, owing to disease, one of the two eyes has changed its position, and the shape of the skull has been altered apparently by the pressure of the brain in a new direction. [1]
Some said it was the softened climate, but others believed it was owing to the habit of keeping their ears open whenever they were walking through the grass or in the woods. [6]
But such failure, Venters decided, was owing to the speed with which they were traveling. [13]
Before they broke up, owing to prayers the weather was overcast. [4]
But presently she understood that there was one near, owing everything to her husband, who had not volunteered to help to save him--on the thousandth chance. [11]
It is a too frequent fault of our common-school system that, owing to inadequate pay and ignorant selections, the teachers are not competent to their responsible task. [4]
In short, owing to the pressing nature of the occasion, the judge would take the liberty of calling the committee together immediately. [9]
It was owing to the narrowest chance--or, as the old man would have it, to the interposition of great Isis, that his father had been so happy as to get away with him and the treasures he had brought from the temple at Philae. [10]
Evil tidings-which, owing to the loss of time involved, might prove fatal. [10]
The hall, owing to the fact that the shutters of the windows by the stairs were always closed, was in semidarkness. [9]
It is owing to primogeniture that while there is a nobility in England there is no noblesse. [4]
Perhaps it's owing to Miss McDonald. [4]
It is owing to him, and the care and skill of the great leech Erasistratus, that I am still standing before you alive and can praise what my Hermon was and proved himself to me in those days. [10]
Such variations appear to arise from the same unknown causes acting on the cerebral organisation, which induce slight variations or individual differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. [1]
It is owing to a neglect of the doctrines, that there is such a fearful falling away in the country. [5]
In very prosperous times we might regard our stock and copyrights as assets sufficient, with the money owing to us, to square up and quit even, but I suppose we may not hope for such luck in the present condition of things. [5]
Whereas I--" At this point in Mr. Crewe's remarks the Honourable Jacob Botcher was seized by an appalling coughing fit which threatened to break his arm-chair, probably owing to the fact that he had swallowed something which he had in his mouth the wrong way. [9]
And allowing both these to be true, neither has the remotest affinity to the third new doctrine, that which declares seven eighths of all chronic diseases to be owing to Psora. [3]
I believe that their success, however, is largely owing to their practical features.--C.D.W. [4]
Owing, however, to their passion for imitating Europeans, they altered their manner of dressing at an early period, and the use of alcoholic drinks became very general. [1]
The Doctor's was the graver of the two; there was something of grimness about it, partly owing to the northeasters he had faced for so many years, partly to long companionship with that stern personage who never deals in sentiment or pleasantry. [6]
But owing to the fact that several managers politely declined to produce it, it has not appeared on any stage. [9]
Sonya, owing to the count's contradictory orders, lost her head and did not know what to do. [2]
The road in the afternoon was not unpicturesque, owing to the streams and the ever noble forests, but the prospect was always very limited. [4]
It was said that the expedition, owing to difficulties, had not thoroughly explored a part of the country lying about the head-waters, some four thousand miles from the mouth of the river. [5]
That his feeble successors were able to keep this Asiatic Colossus of different countries together for two hundred years after his death, was entirely owing to Darius. [10]
After Smolensk Napoleon sought a battle beyond Dorogobuzh at Vyazma, and then at Tsarevo-Zaymishche, but it happened that owing to a conjunction of innumerable circumstances the Russians could not give battle till they reached Borodino, seventy miles from Moscow. [2]
The tender was small, holding but two beside the man at the oars, and owing to the rocks and shallow water of which I have spoken, the Maria lay considerably over a quarter of a mile out. [9]
They had a saying that "there is no woman for a hairy man;" but it would appear that the fashion has changed in New Zealand, perhaps owing to the presence of Europeans, and I am assured that beards are now admired by the Maories. [1]
Since it to say that the affair, after a while, came apparently to a deadlock, owing to the impossibility of getting certain definite information from the Ribblevale books, which had been taken out of the state. [9]
But the great question "Materialism or Antimaterialism" still agitated the Georgia Augusta, in whose province the conflict had assumed still sharper forms, owing to Rudolf Wagner's speech during the convention of the Guttingen naturalists three years prior to my entrance. [10]
Until it is proved to what removable condition attaching to the attendant the disease is owing, he is bound to stay away from his patients so soon as he finds himself singled out to be tracked by the disease. [3]
He ought to pouch the money that's owing him; he ought to shave away his insurance, his lightning-rod, and his horsedealing business; and he ought to sell his farms and his store, and concentrate on the flour-mill and the saw-mill. [11]
It gives me pleasure to comply with your request, so far as it is in my power so to do, but, owing to the hurry in preparing for a journey, the notes of the cases I had then taken were lost or mislaid. [3]
This ignorance was perhaps owing largely to the appearance of several ranchmen from near the American border. [11]
Who were the people, then, to whose activity, influence, or standing with the community was owing all the temporary excitement produced by the Metallic Tractors? [6]
But these rules, owing to unknown causes, are far from being fixed. [1]
This was partly owing to the satisfaction he got out of his clothes. [5]
This was partly owing to the quick Lawless and Trafford blood, partly to the wife's wilfulness. [11]
As the Council, owing to the dead state of its members for now three centuries, was not in session, we made no long tarry. [4]
This is doubtless owing to the air of suffering which seems to have saddened his look of late. [6]
This, perhaps, is owing to my contemplating it from a distance, and my imagination lending it tints occasionally. [4]
And it was owing to Fay's presence that Jane Withersteen came to see more of Lassiter. [13]
The consciousness of owing a debt of gratitude to those, against whom she had sinned so heavily, oppressed her. [10]
A painful meal, on the whole, owing to the presence in the room of a grown-up daughter with a graveyard cough, without physician or medicine, or comforts. [4]
This has been observed more frequently with the magpie than with any other bird, owing perhaps to its conspicuous appearance and nest. [1]
Mr. Hodder has not disapproved of my gifts in the past, but owing to his present scruples concerning my worthiness, I naturally hesitate to press the matter now. [9]
If there's a night's sleep owing you, you can collect the debt some time. [11]
It must be mentioned that Transylvania, which the Earl of Meldritch, accompanied by Captain Smith, set out to relieve, had long been in a disturbed condition, owing to internal dissensions, of which the Turks took advantage. [4]
The apparent similarity may be owing perhaps, quite as much to the mental state at the time, as to the outward circumstances. [6]
There was a man run down almost to vagabondage, owing to his increasingly shabby clothing, and he was only saved from becoming a moral and physical wreck by a remnant of good-breeding in him that kept his worn boots well polished. [4]
In this respect man resembles those forms, called by naturalists protean or polymorphic, which have remained extremely variable, owing, as it seems, to such variations being of an indifferent nature, and to their having thus escaped the action of natural selection. [1]
Even in the lowest walks of life, skill and ability must be of some advantage; though in many occupations, owing to the great division of labour, a very small one. [1]
His celebrity is less owing to his book than to the unfortunate connection of his name with the unforgotten Burke and Hare horrors. [6]
Hall, Manager Charles L. Webster & Co.: [Charles L. Webster, owing to poor health, had by this time retired from the firm. [5]
The old grocery keeper was good enough to say that I was no fool, if I did go off owing him four dollars. [4]
That that success is so much greater now than heretofore is doubtless owing to rational causes; and if we would have it continue, we shall do well to inquire what those causes are. [7]
I suppose it is partly owing to the concentration of the company in and around the hotel. [4]
After a long interval, owing to a severe relapse of the apparently conquered disease, I returned to them. [10]
The queen, however, insisted that it was all owing to her troops being led on by so valiant a commander. [4]
Am I mistaken in supposing that this is owing to the discontinuance of big chimneys, with wide fireplaces in them? [4]
The firm is in debt, but L. A. L. is free--and not only free but has large money owing to it. [5]
Of course, sir, I realize that these, if they come at all, will be owing to the lustre of your name. [9]
I owe a hundred dollars, and I wouldn't be owing it if you hadn't saved my life. [11]
Prince Andrew noticed, however, that though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the commander's will, owing to the tact Bagration showed, his presence was very valuable. [2]
In studying Elmira, however, it must be borne in mind that the best effects cannot be obtained there, owing to the lack of the indeterminate sentence. [4]
She went from him to a gynecologist, who considered her headache as owing to causes for which his specialty had the remedies. [6]
Woman, owing to her maternal instincts, displays these qualities towards her infants in an eminent degree; therefore it is likely that she would often extend them towards her fellow-creatures. [1]
With sincere compassion he saw how her face blanched at his information that, owing to the pressure of duties which the commencement of the war imposed upon him, his Majesty would be unable to visit her here. [10]
Perhaps he would have done so earlier, but for the keen antagonism which, owing to their totally different natures, had arisen between the stern man and my lighthearted father, and displayed itself in the Council as well as in all the affairs of life. [10]
For years he had done no good for himself, trying his hand at many things--sugar, salt, cotton, cattle, but always just failing to succeed, though he came out of his enterprises owing no one. [11]
A certain nobleman had been owing my Lord Carlisle thirteen thousand pounds for a couple of years, that his Lordship had won at hazard. [9]
These precious rolls had aided him to maintain the proud conviction of owing everything which he attained or possessed solely to himself. [10]
Laws and the gallows could not pay the debt that was owing to me! [5]
The squadron sailed from L'Orient in June, but owing to a collision between the Bon homme Richard and the Alliance it was forced to put back into the Groix roads for repairs. [9]
During the last few days, owing to the fact that there were a great many idle river-men about, the river-driving for the season being done, there had been more than one quarrel of a serious nature at Sunburst. [11]
But besides this fact, and owing to a public taste not cultivated or not corrected in the public schools, their books do not sell in anything like the quantity that the inferior, mediocre, other home novels sell. [4]
Owing to certain expenses connected with Lise, he had been unable to acquire the shirt and the tie, but he had bought the suit in the hope and belief that she would find him irresistible therein. [9]
Owing to her early and strong friendship for you, I would gladly oblige you, but I cannot absolutely do it. [7]
It was no doubt owing to it that Democrats became as scarce as moose in the Adirondacks. [4]
Farrar himself had done three men's work before breakfast, and it was, in great part, owing to him that we were now leaving the island behind us. [9]
Owing to various diplomatic considerations the Russian armies--just those which might have destroyed his prestige--do not appear upon the scene till he is no longer there. [2]
If the valley did seem different to Evelyn, probably she did not think so far as to own to herself whether this was owing to the outline of the story, which ran in her mind, or to the presence of the young author. [4]
The two boats did not arrive until nearly four o'clock, owing to some trouble to the tug's propeller. [9]
The storm had delayed the march and, after the last cloud-burst, several convicts and guards had been attacked by fever owing to their wet night-quarters in the open air. [10]
I got a decree of foreclosure on the whole; but, owing to there being no redemption on the sale to be under the Blanchard mortgage, the court allowed Mobley till the first of March to pay the money, before advertising for sale. [7]
This found ready credence, owing to the retired life led by the Ortliebs,--whose house had formerly been one of the most hospitable in the city,--ever since the wife had become an invalid and Eva had grown up with an aversion to the world. [10]
Owing to the count's customary carelessness nothing was ready for their departure by the twenty-eighth of August and the carts that were to come from their Ryazan and Moscow estates to remove their household belongings did not arrive till the thirtieth. [2]
Owing to this condition of mind, man cannot avoid looking both backwards and forwards, and comparing past impressions. [1]
Many Ueberhells have closed their eyes forever, since then, and even the graves of Dr. Melchior and his beautiful wife Bianca have disappeared, owing to the removal of the burying-ground. [10]
To these new champions and this new system of tactics our late success is mainly owing, and to them we must mainly look for the final consummation. [7]
The refractory young brood down there were being kept well in hand, and it was entirely owing to his effectual measures that they had contented themselves with that one whistle. [10]
Owing to Mr. Bronte's great age, and long-formed habits of solitary occupation when in the house, his daughter was left to herself for the greater part of the day. [14]
There had already been several monthly periodicals, more or less successful and permanent, among which "Putnam's Magazine" was conspicuous, owing its success largely to the contributions of that very accomplished and delightful writer, Mr. George William Curtis. [6]
This may have been in a great measure owing to their change of living and food; but more so to their banishment from the mainland of Van Diemen's Land, and consequent depression of spirits" (Bonwick, pp. [1]
The wedding had been delayed owing to his enforced absence abroad. [11]
Nor can it be said that this was owing to the tragic character of Lincoln's end. [7]
Mr. Stoker had, as was said, a somewhat remarkable gift in prayer,--an endowment by no means confined to profoundly spiritual persons,--in fact, not rarely owing much of its force to a strong animal nature underlying the higher attributes. [6]
These favorable results are in part owing to the cessation of mail service in the insurrectionary States and in part to a careful review of all expenditures in that department in the interest of economy. [7]

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