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Meanings of own errand in anglès

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Usage of own errand in anglès
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Robbie passed along the streets scarcely knowing his own errand or destination.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
2
It has lifted the farmer above the wastefulness of being his own errand-boy.
The History of the Telephone
3
The times pass over us, and every single portion has its own errand to us.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
4
He had his own ways, and his own errand.
The Way of a Man
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Everything was running smoothly on the ranch, and Howard rode this time on his own errand.
The Desert Valley
6
So they parted, each to his own errand.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
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A few horsemen passed us, pricking along, too much engrossed in their own errand to inquire ours.
Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
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The man answered promptly as if that were the quickest way to get back to his own errand.
The Ear in the Wall
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I came on my own errand.
The Woman in the Alcove
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The priceless gift that had suddenly come to me had driven out all recollection of my own errand.
Mr. Standfast
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Immediately the Indian relaxed his listening attitude, satisfied that a rabbit was scurrying through the forest upon his own errand bent.
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
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He had been unjust to poor Assunta, sitting patient in the gloomy arena; she had not come on her own errand.
Roderick Hudson
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Mrs. Morris, however, saw no reason why her daughter should not do her own errand, and all arguments were in vain.
The Story of the Big Front Door
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Mrs. Berry seated herself in the proffered chair without any reference to what the nature of her own errand might have been.
The Wrong Woman
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His interest in Paula was of so emotional a cast that his attention to his own errand was of the most perfunctory kind.
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
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Ay, ay; they are edging towards the river-Peace ,pup-peace- no,heretheycomethis way again-thethieves don't seem to know their own errand!
The Prairie
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