Possession
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The key is presumably important to the owner, but, in contrast to money, is of no use to the person in
possession
of the wallet.
What if the only way to save a child from being struck and killed by a runaway train is to divert it down a siding where it will destroy your most precious possession, a vintage Bugatti, into which you have sunk most of your savings?
Thus, it will be difficult to prohibit the design, possession, or even implantation for espionage of particular programs.
The Earth is humankind’s most important common possession, yet it, too, has been affected by the root cause of the COVID-19 crisis: our collective blindness.
In 2003, US intelligence about Iraq’s supposed
possession
of weapons of mass destruction was completely wrong.
He asked for supper, and began telling her about the races; but by his tone and by his looks, which grew colder and colder, she saw that he had not forgiven her her victory, and that the obstinacy, against which she had fought, had again taken
possession
of him.
There was in that kiss an act of possession, a sort of jealous resolution.
He simply said that it was a question of getting
possession
of the government first of all.
As the dispute threatened to drag on, he took
possession
of the crowd at once by jumping on to the trunk of a tree and shouting:"Comrades!
Then, when the people had obtained
possession
of the government, reforms would begin: return to the primitive commune, substitution of an equal and free family for the moral and oppressive family; absolute equality, civil, political, and economic; individual independence guaranteed, thanks to the
possession
of the integral product of the instruments of work; finally, free vocational education, paid for by the collectivity.
He had to struggle with Levaque to obtain
possession
of his axe, and he knew not how to keep back the Maheus, who were throwing flints with both hands.
A new dream took
possession
of him; he thought no more of dying, but remained for hours with his feet in the mud, and a drizzle from the thaw falling on his shoulders, filled by the feverish hope that victory was still possible.
The animal dropped, electrocuted, and its descent brought it within reach of our adroit hunter, who promptly took
possession
of it.
"Have you been to the opera?""Not yet; but I shall go next year, when I am living at Paris to finish reading for the bar.""As I had the honour of putting it to your husband," said the chemist, "with regard to this poor Yanoda who has run away, you will find yourself, thanks to his extravagance, in the
possession
of one of the most comfortable houses of Yonville.
The wish took
possession
of her to run after and rejoin him, throw herself into his arms and say to him, "It is I; I am yours."
Chapter TenGradually Rodolphe's fears took
possession
of her.
They were so completely lost in the
possession
of each other that they thought themselves in their own house, and that they would live there till death, like two spouses eternally young.
They knew one another too well for any of those surprises of
possession
that increase its joys a hundred-fold.
Emma had sent her out to watch for Bovary in order to keep him off, and they hurriedly installed the man in
possession
under the roof, where he swore he would remain.
The building of the church and the sentences passed by the Justice brought him sudden enlightenment; an idea which occurred to him drove him almost out of his senses for some weeks, and finally took
possession
of him with the absolute power of the first idea which a passionate nature believes itself to have discovered.
'Would it not,' he said to himself, 'be a good way of scoring off this creature, so lavishly endowed with every material advantage, to take
possession
of his wife's hand under his very eyes?
His love was no longer merely admiration of her beauty, pride in the
possession
of her.
'Sir,' she answered him finally, 'I speak as a woman whose honour, that is to say her most priceless possession, has been outraged.'
Nothing was missing from the trunk, but several things had been disarranged; and yet the key never left his
possession.
Julien took
possession
of the bunches of plumes, and ran up the ladder.
Before I go, I wish to do something for you; I should have acted two months ago, for you deserve it, but for the accusation based upon the address of Amanda Binet, which was found in your
possession.
She had to make up her mind over a desperate idea which had taken
possession
of her.
Next day, this scorn of him had entire
possession
of her heart; there was no longer any question of the impulse which, for a whole week, had made her find such pleasure in treating Julien as her most intimate friend; the sight of him was repulsive to her.
Everything that the most elegant civilisation can offer in the way of keen pleasures, was it not all combined to one's heart's content in Mademoiselle de La Mole?'These memories of past happiness took
possession
of Julien, and rapidly undid all the work of reason.
After these first transports, and when she had grown used to the happiness of seeing Julien, a keen curiosity suddenly took
possession
of her soul.
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