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Meanings of own pet in English

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Usage of own pet in English
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There was a rosebush-Clorinda'sown pet rosebush-allsnowed over with fragrant blossoms.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
2
She had showed herself to be his superior on his own pet subject.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
3
For Petra, you might instead go for an image of your own pet.
Wired
4
Under this new captivation her own pet, Poppy, was thoughtlessly neglected.
Missy
5
So of course everybody eventually had their own pet junkie.
Life
6
J. G. Wood, in describing his own pet cat, said:
Friends and Helpers
7
It's sad when your own pet doesn't entirely trust you.
I shot you babe
8
So Herminia, like the rest, wrote her own pet novel.
The Woman Who Did
9
I had my own pet mount, Elixir, here during my freshman and sophomore years.
Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College
10
Other girls followed her, each telling her own pet story.
Nights in London
11
Every man shrinks from cutting off his own pet privilege.
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
12
Polly's own pet girlie," then with a prolonged and ear-piercing whistle:-"Hi ,four-wheeler
The Far Horizon
13
One thing I have discovered is that my own pet project will go for naught.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
14
Only, he hated experts; they were so bent always on establishing their own pet theory.
Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth
15
Even my own pet extremity-theupsetting of an apple-cart.
The Gates of Chance
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The phantoms were one of his own pet projects.
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
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Own pet through the time
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