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• He possessed an estate. (10)
• A wild thought possessed her. (8)
• Animal courage both possessed. (10)
• I am possessed wiz passion for her voice. (10)
• One would rather have possessed the romance. (2)
• Her voice possessed the mountain-shadowed lake. (10)
• I prove to you that I am not possessed of eloquence. (10)
• If she had possessed any sedative drug she would have taken it. (8)
• Nay, not wrath the king possessed, But a radiance of the breast. (10)
• At last she remembered that she still possessed something valuable. (5)
• Thunder and lightning possessed the vale, and then a vertical rain. (10)
• Possessing, or possessed by her, the good brewer was perfectly happy. (10)
• In English or in German it would not have possessed the deadly meaning. (10)
• She possessed herself of his plate, and began to cut up the meat for him. (9)
• She had come away feeling that she only possessed and knew one side of him. (8)
• A solemn glee possessed my mind at this gradual and lovely coming in of day. (2)
• He entered the situation and was possessed by the shivering delicacy of it. (10)
• Her voice tsrilled, her soul possessed me, Your countess is my Sandra still. (10)
• Daphne Wing convulsively squeezed the hand of which she had possessed herself. (8)
• Something of what our human tragedy may show before high heaven possessed him. (10)
• Something of what our human tragedy may show before high heaven possessed him. (22)
• Noel, so affectionate, and dreamy, seemed sometimes possessed of a little devil. (8)
• Frank had unceremoniously possessed himself of it and was advancing on the enemy. (7)
• The generosity she had always felt that he possessed, he thus proved in figures. (10)
• Men in my confidence would have supposed me more rational: I was simply possessed. (10)
• She would have raised the poet to equal rank beside her had she possessed the power. (10)
• There is the dictum here for a man who adores a woman who is possessed by a husband. (10)
• They had lost all they possessed and had fled to Canada for refuge from persecution. (19)
• He was always possessed now by a sense of the danger Noel ran from companionship with any man. (8)
• No Greylock had ever possessed a more luxuriant grey curl than his, and yet he had died young. (5)
• It pervaded and possessed all the spiritual intervals of the dream, like a musical benediction. (1)
• Terrified lest he should relapse into that grim silence, she timidly possessed herself of his hand. (8)
• Dialer possessed undoubted fluency, but did tittle, though Sir Austin was ever expecting much of him. (10)
• The idea had been gradually taking shape in his mind from the moment that he had possessed the Thousand. (10)
• The idea had been gradually taking shape in his mind from the moment that he had possessed the Thousand. (22)
• What had possessed him to give his card to a rackety young fellow, who went about with a thing like that? (8)
• Without having a great brain, the measure of it possessed by Skepsey was alive under strong illumination. (10)
• If I still possessed it I would, despite my advanced age, try the experiment of inoculating myself with it. (5)
• He was cultivated, well read in philosophy and science; he possessed considerable literary and critical ability. (3)
• A man might dine on four shillings and sixpence, enjoying a modest half-pint of wine, and he possessed that sum. (22)
• The rapids beat and shouted round their little prison-isle, each billow leaping as if possessed by a separate demon. (9)
• We cannot, when we find ourselves possessed of the gift of sending a creature into convulsions, avoid exercising it. (10)
• As I was dealing with a scholarly one, I made use of such ornamental literary skill as I possessed, to prove urgency. (10)
• She had no great admiration of the sentimental Sicilian composer, she confessed, yet she sang as if possessed by him. (10)
• They jumped to their feet, as if possessed, and one of them tossed his cup through the lattice work and vines overhead. (5)
• Knightley could not impute to Emma a more relenting heart than she possessed, or a heart more disposed to accept of his. (4)
• I do not advise any direct approaching of the husband, but if you are possessed of the information you might let me know. (8)
• There was no great share of reverence in Barbara, but what little she possessed had always been kept for her eldest brother. (8)
• His public boast was, that he owed no man a farthing; his secret comfort, that he possessed two thousand pounds in the Funds. (10)
• His wife possessed a remedy which would instantly calm his ravings, but it was expensive, and she had not the money to buy it. (5)
• It was pleasant to feel that the thought of her possessed him through and through, but she was tremulously glad of that corridor. (8)
• Although he possessed great gifts as a player and composer, his dissipated habits brought him to disgrace, and he died in poverty. (3)
• The idea which had possessed him walking home in the moonlight sustained him in that melancholy task of docketing and destruction. (8)
• And the feeling, which was not as definite as this, possessed her to the exclusion of all other feelings in the rain-soaked fields. (8)
• An idea possessed him that the triumph of the Italians meant the release of Ammiani, and his release the loss of Vittoria for ever. (10)
• Finally, however, a man appeared who possessed the genius to develop the peculiar resources of the harpsichord to a remarkable extent. (3)
• Her form was well rounded and her face was animated and possessed of one of those kindly benevolent expressions that are heaven-born. (18)
• Money and its uses had impressed her; the quantity possessed by some, the utter need of it for the first of human purposes by others. (10)
• Although he possessed great brilliancy, the most prominent trait in his playing was its all-pervading and inexhaustible fund of poetry. (3)
• Paris, in addition to its many other advantages, had long possessed a great university which had produced many scholars and theologians. (3)
• At Southfield, where they all descended, Miss Macroyd promptly possessed herself of a groom, who came forward tentatively, touching his hat. (9)
• Bessie enjoyed the fact, which she had colored a little, in another laugh, but she had apparently not possessed her aunt of the humor of it. (9)
• Still, he possessed a peculiar influence in Society, because it was known to be impossible to get him to look at things in a complicated way. (8)
• She was no longer in her first youth; she had had her experiences and knew her world; she possessed a clear vision and a sharp understanding. (12)
• In the mean time the golden haze along the mountain side changed to a clear, pearly lustre, and the quiet evening possessed the quiet landscape. (9)
• Like the sirens of whom she had heard, she possessed the mysterious, enviable power of conquering the iron resistance of even the strongest man. (5)
• Possessed by the rosiness of love, she finished her business, with an attention to everything needed that was equal to perfect serenity of mind. (10)
• Tempered by beauty, the robust frame showed that she possessed a royal nature, and could, as a foremost qualification for Art, feel harmoniously. (10)
• No more regular features were to be seen in any collection of wax figures; the princess also possessed the art of keeping her face perfectly unmoved. (5)
• Yet she admitted to him that the countess possessed resources which she could find nowhere; and she saw the full beauty of such inimitable grave endurance. (10)
• You see Folly perpetually sliding into new shapes in a society possessed of wealth and leisure, with many whims, many strange ailments and strange doctors. (10)
• Highly cultivated in literature, philosophy and poetry, he possessed a keen and discerning critical taste, and a literary style that was picturesque and eloquent. (3)
• She possessed much more common sense than her mamma, and promised under proper advantages to become speedily quite sufficiently acquainted with the world and its habitudes. (6)

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