Possesses

Examples

• If he has been kidnapped, it could not have been for anything which he himself possesses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I don't know what it is you call by that name, or where it is, or who possesses it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So Smyrna really still possesses her crown of life, in a business point of view. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No uninstructed man or woman possesses it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No creed possesses any final sanction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Each possesses a separate and independent province with its own peculiar aims and ways of proceeding. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Meyler possesses a good understanding when one can give him a fortnight to consider things; but whenever impulse is required he is of no use on earth. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She possesses all the beauty of the Jerseys, said I to him; and what a pretty little foot! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• First, the quantity and value of the land which any man possesses, can never be a secret, and can always be ascertained with great exactness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But my voice (habitually gentle) possesses a high note or so, in emergencies. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Lady Rowena, he said, possesses not the language in which to reply to your courtesy, or to sustain her part in your festival. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Whatever initiative and imaginative vision he possesses will be called into play and control his impulses and habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If he were to be in love, what a bright glowing countenance he possesses for expressing that or indeed any other passion! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The man who brought you this packet and possesses these proofs, is now waiting at my house to be bought off. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Deerhurst possesses talents and can be very agreeable. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Pure hydrogen gas burns with a pale blue flame that gives scarcely any light, though it possesses intense heating power. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Formica sanguinea, on the other hand, possesses much fewer slaves, and in the early part of the summer extremely few. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They are indifferent whether the desired qualities are acquired earlier or later in life, if the full-grown animal possesses them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It also possesses a remarkable resistance to corrosive acids and for this reason is the preferred material for tanks and vats in wineries, breweries, chemical works, mines, tanneries, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The memorable words I have quoted give to this ruined city about all the interest it possesses to people of the present day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Admitting that man possesses the faculty of invention, what are the motives that induce its exercise? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When I add that he possesses a large and very blunt knife, you have an additional aid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Many animals possess the five senses, but only man possesses constructive, creative power, and is able to build on the information gained through the senses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And the power which the eye possesses is a sort of effluence which is dispensed from the sun? Plato. The Republic.
• First, To that immediate pleasure, which a rich man gives us, by the view of the beautiful cloaths, equipage, gardens, or houses, which he possesses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A magnet possesses lines of force, and as the magnet moves toward the coil it carries lines of force with it, and the coil is cut, so to speak, by these lines of force. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A great hush of awe, a stillness of breathless expectation, possesses every living soul of us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sound possesses a musical quality only when the waves or pulses follow each other at absolutely regular intervals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• That a coil through which current flows possesses the characteristics _a_, _b_, _c_, and _d_ of a magnet is shown as follows:-- _a_, _b_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is difficult to offer aid to an independent man with that just kind of pride which he possesses. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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