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Meanings of own boy in English

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Usage of own boy in English
1
He could not forget that he might have killed his own boy.
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) / Myths and Legendary He...
2
William's own boy had absented himself on the first signs of packing.
Scoop
3
My own boy-his own boy-hehad never touched, and never looked at.
Mr. Hogarth's Will
4
Papa's own boy, he looks beautiful and as bright as the day.
Elsie's Womanhood
5
Willum's sort of son to me, my own boy bein' long dead.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
6
You're just the same as if you was our own boy-ayes!-yoube
The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
7
His own boy gave a strong impetus to his most disinterested social ideals.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
8
Rachel picked up the baby, her own boy crawling free on the floor.
The marrowbone marble company
9
Her horse saw her now, she was sure, her own boy.
Gratitude
10
Why, that is my own boy, the son of my bosom.
The Heir of Kilfinnan: A Tale of the Shore and Ocean
11
Just getting in to see my own boy, they searched me.
Body work
12
He bought it for his own boy, isn't that grand, Cory?
Boy’s Life
13
The grandchild-ishe not her own boy returned to her arms?
Mince Pie
14
The figure lifted up its head and rose, and said, My own boy!
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction
15
When I hold him to me, he even smells of my own boy.
The White Queen
16
And a child-noolder than my own boy who is fighting in the Argonne.
Now It Can Be Told
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Own boy through the time
Own boy across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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