Possession
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Merely by being in
possession
of a thick overcoat he felt his advantage over this thin little man.
Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my
possession
for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it.
It was his office to learn in what part of the country the agents of the crown were making their efforts to embody men, to repair to the place, enlist, appear zealous in the cause he affected to serve, and otherwise to get
possession
of as many of the secrets of the enemy as possible.
The county of Westchester, after the British had obtained
possession
of the island of New York, became common ground, in which both parties continued to act for the remainder of the war of the Revolution.
It was not a moment for fastidious inquiries into abuses of any description, and oppression and injustice were the natural consequences of the
possession
of a military power that was uncurbed by the restraints of civil authority.
But the death of his father recalled him, after passing two years in this manner, to the
possession
of an honorable name, and a very ample estate.
Into one of these recesses Captain Wharton now threw himself, drawing the curtain before him in such a manner as to conceal most of his person from observation; while his younger sister, losing her natural frankness of manner, in an air of artificial constraint, silently took
possession
of the other.
A man, whose colossal stature manifested the
possession
of vast strength, entered the room, and removing his cap, he saluted the family with a mildness his appearance did not indicate as belonging to his nature.
While the British were confined to their empty conquests in the
possession
of a few of the larger towns, or marched through counties that were swept of everything like military supplies, the light troops of their enemies had the range of the whole interior.
After taking possession, however, of a small but very comfortable room, Doctor Sitgreaves proceeded to inquire into the state of his injuries.
Until the fire, which raged as the British troops took
possession
of New York, had laid Trinity in ashes, a goodly gilded tablet on its walls proclaimed the virtues of his deceased parents, and beneath a flag of marble, in one of the aisles of the church, their bones were left to molder in aristocratical repose.
Captain Singleton was sleeping under the care of his own man, while his sister had been persuaded to take
possession
of her room, for the purpose of obtaining the repose of which her last night's journeying had robbed her.
The gift of Captain Wharton had not been lost on the youthful lieutenant; and a certain dancing motion that had taken
possession
of objects before his eyes, gave him warning of the necessity of recruiting nature by sleep.
It was not long before Betty Flanagan emerged from the darkness, and very coolly took
possession
of what the Skinners had left behind them; namely, food and divers articles of dress.
Before parting, Dunwoodie repeated his caution to keep a watchful eye on the inmates of the cottage; and especially enjoined him, if any movements of a particularly suspicious nature were seen in the neighborhood, to break up from his present quarters, and to move down with his party, and take
possession
of the domains of Mr. Wharton.
It never required more than a single look to acquaint the trooper with the particulars of every scene that was not uncommonly veiled, and the first survey that he took on entering the house told him more than the observations of a day had put into the
possession
of Doctor Sitgreaves.
There is an instinctive delicacy in woman, that seems to conquer all other emotions; and the insensible bride was immediately conveyed from sight, leaving the room to the sole
possession
of the other sex.
The wounded British were placed under the control of the chaplain; and towards the middle of the day Lawton saw all the arrangements so far completed, as to render it probable that in a few hours he would be left with his small party, in undisturbed
possession
of the Corners.
The surprise of Henry and the peddler, on entering and finding Frances in
possession
of the hut, may be easily imagined.
But Sir Henry Clinton, in the
possession
of intercepted letters from Washington, rested within his lines, and cautiously disregarded the solicitations of Cornwallis for succor.
This column took the English in flank, and, bayoneting their artillerists, gained
possession
of the cannon.
The tick tried this, that, and the other course, and got as excited and as anxious as the boys themselves, but time and again just as he would have victory in his very grasp, so to speak, and Tom's fingers would be twitching to begin, Joe's pin would deftly head him off, and keep
possession.
The tittering rose higher and higher--the cat was within six inches of the absorbed teacher's head--down, down, a little lower, and she grabbed his wig with her desperate claws, clung to it, and was snatched up into the garret in an instant with her trophy still in her
possession!
A third witness swore he had often seen the knife in Potter's
possession.
He never had supposed for a moment that so large a sum as a hundred dollars was to be found in actual money in any one's
possession.
Whispers passed along, and a boding uneasiness took
possession
of every countenance.
But my husband, having so dexterously got out of the bailiff's house by letting himself down in a most desperate manner from almost the top of the house to the top of another building, and leaping from thence, which was almost two storeys, and which was enough indeed to have broken his neck, he came home and got away his goods before the creditors could come to seize; that is to say, before they could get out the commission, and be ready to send their officers to take
possession.
But now, being an old married woman, I made no scruple of going directly home with him, and there I took
possession
at once of a house well furnished, and a husband in very good circumstances, so that I had a prospect of a very happy life, if I knew how to manage it; and I had leisure to consider of the real value of the life I was likely to live.
Nor was this all; for though by this job I was become considerably richer than before, yet the resolution I had formerly taken, of leaving off this horrid trade when I had gotten a little more, did not return, but I must still get farther, and more; and the avarice joined so with the success, that I had no more thought of coming to a timely alteration of life, though without it I could expect no safety, no tranquillity in the
possession
of what I had so wickedly gained; but a little more, and a little more, was the case still.
There is nothing so absurd, so surfeiting, so ridiculous, as a man heated by wine in his head, and wicked gust in his inclination together; he is in the
possession
of two devils at once, and can no more govern himself by his reason than a mill can grind without water; his vice tramples upon all that was in him that had any good in it, if any such thing there was; nay, his very sense is blinded by its own rage, and he acts absurdities even in his views; such a drinking more, when he is drunk already; picking up a common woman, without regard to what she is or who she is, whether sound or rotten, clean or unclean, whether ugly or handsome, whether old or young, and so blinded as not really to distinguish.
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