Possessions

Examples

• The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Except for quite personal possessions, there was still an air of patriarchal communism about the tribe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had no money and very few possessions of any kind, so that he did not have much occasion to use arithmetic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• How disentangle the passion for equality from the passion of cupidity, when begins the fight for equality of possessions? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We might as well resolve the obligation to abstain from the possessions of others, into the obligation of a promise, as that of allegiance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Another episode of this period is curious in its revelation of the tenacity with which Edison has always held to some of his oldest possessions with a sense of personal attachment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And does it seem to me that I am about to deprive Harold Skimpole of his share in such possessions, which are his only birthright! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A considerable school of political thinkers in Britain was disposed to regard overseas possessions as a source of weakness to the kingdom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1840 New Zealand also was added to the colonial possessions of the British Crown. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And, secondly, there has hitherto existed in the States no organization for and no tradition of what one may call non-assimilable possessions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Of all my worldly possessions I took no more than the few necessaries that filled the bag. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• What if he be a profligate debauchee, and would rather receive harm than benefit from large possessions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Before the golden mean was found, however, Meg added to her domestic possessions what young couples seldom get on long without, a family jar. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If people choose to ruin their own possessions, I don't know what's to be done. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Adrian did not rest only with the exertions he could make with regard to his own possessions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They could change the nature and locality of their possessions with an unheard-of freedom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both these heads of information were in a list that Magwitch, while in prison, gave to Mr. Jaggers, of the possessions he supposed I should inherit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With your showing you had better give up Kingston at the last moment and save the most productive part of your possessions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• SECONDLY, To the expectation of advantage from the rich and powerful by our sharing their possessions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He was certain his possessions were real and vast: he made inquiries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Holland had various islands and possessions in the East Indies and Dutch Guiana, and Denmark an island or so in the West Indies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And your will shall decide your destiny, he said: I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I foresaw that, being convicted, his possessions would be forfeited to the Crown. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There were no walls, no fences, no hedges--nothing to secure a man's possessions but these random heaps of stones. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Easier it was, he said, for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the owner of great possessions to enter the kingdom of heaven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Neolithic man in the lands of his origin in Asia and Africa even more than in Europe was already counting his accumulating possessions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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