Possessed

Examples

• Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I had scant luggage to take with me to London, for little of the little I possessed was adapted to my new station. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My mother was the most beautiful woman, and possessed the finest and most benevolent countenance, I have ever seen in my whole life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was extremely difficult, I heard, to make out what he owed, or what he had paid, or of what he died possessed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• What stores of knowledge they possessed! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• At that time he was in the prime of life, being less than fifty years of age, and possessed an admirable physique, promising long life. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She only felt in his embrace a dear assurance that while he possessed her, he would not despair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He himself married a daughter of Darius, though already he possessed an Asiatic wife in Roxana, the daughter of the king of Samarkand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We also approve of one, who is possessed of qualities, that are immediately agreeable to himself; though they be of no service to any mortal. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No individual, perhaps, ever possessed a juster understanding, or was so seldom obstructed in the use of it by indolence, enthusiasm, or authority. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And he was expressionless, neutralised, possessed by her as if it were his fate, without question. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If these were some of the inconveniences of Mr. Skimpole's childhood, it assuredly possessed its advantages too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In 1904 the navy of the United States possessed eight Holland boats and there were also a number of them in the British navy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All the jewellers consulted, at once confirmed the Colonel's assertion that he possessed one of the largest diamonds in the world. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These members I conceive and believe him to be possessed of. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She told me, that that same evening William had teazed her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• His wife's tigerish jealousy came to my rescue and forced his attention away from me the moment he possessed himself of my hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Each stone deity was possessed by sacred gladness, and the eternal fruition of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The invention of the phonograph has brought music to thousands of homes possessed of neither wealth nor skill. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The devil, that possessed her race with obstinacy, has concentrated its full force in her single person! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But my standing possessed of only three-halfpence in the world (and I am sure I wonder how they came to be left in my pocket on a Saturday night! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I never possessed a really wise friend, to set me right, advise or admonish me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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