326 adjectives to describe possession

The pressure of the Anzac Division and the 7th Mounted Brigade assisting it was too much for the enemy, who though holding on to the hills very stoutly till the last moment had to give way and leave the water in our undisputed possession.

He was already master of Perugia and Piombino, and had taken Pisa under his protection, of which he soon afterward took actual possession.

He had no pleasure in property; valuable possessions worried him, and after any amount of trouble to get some object of art he would often give it away the next week.

Why do the women clamor for the ballot, when they have almost exclusive possession of the ballet?

THE CAMPAIGN IN THE PACIFIC Beginning with the loss of its colonies in the China sea, Germany was compelled to witness during the first two years of the war the passing into enemy hands of practically all its colonial possessions, which more than balanced its temporary possession of enemy soil in Europe.

My father and my mother were Huguenots, and they chose to leave their home rather than give up their faith, as did many thousand others, and after suffering many hardships, escaped to England, with no worldly possession save the clothes upon their backs, but with a great treasure in heaven and an abiding trust in the Lord.

The admiral then stood up, and took formal possession in the usual words for their Catholic majesties of this island, to which he gave the name of San Salvador.

By this, masters and serfs were encouraged to enter into an arrangement which was to put the serf into immediate possession of himself, of a homestead and of a few acres, giving him time to indemnify his master by a series of payments.

In bringing children into school during their play period, probably the most important formative period of their lives, and in utilising their play consciously, we are interfering with one of their most precious possessions when they are still too helpless to resent it directly.

Nicholas seemed to hesitate to divest him of this sole remaining possession.

There was a proposition before congress for taking forcible possession of that region, when it was ascertained that, by a secret treaty, Spain had retroceded Louisiana to France.

I'm monarch of all I survey because I get the good out of everything,mere earthly possession doesn't amount to much, a man has to leave the finest estates behind him,but I get the concentrated sweetness of it all wherever I am.

Strangely enough the consideration of her fellow passengers left the girl in undisturbed possession of a double seat.

I'm monarch of all I survey because I get the good out of everything,mere earthly possession doesn't amount to much, a man has to leave the finest estates behind him,but I get the concentrated sweetness of it all wherever I am.

The longed-for wisdom of to-day shows a kaleidoscopic front, in which are turning the slum-dweller and the millionaire; the white man, the yellow, and the black; the town and the territorial possession.

"Yes," answered Paul simply, with that calm which only comes with hereditary possession.

Russia was all but stifled between the great Lithuanian empire of the Poles and the vast possessions of the Mongols.

Now, however, he was in peaceful possession of an extended empire, and he assembled his chiefs to hear their sentiments on an expedition which he had resolved to undertake.

It is his most priceless possession, the thing which above all others makes him a gentleman.

Meanwhile all his foreign possessions were won back by the French under the magic leadership of Joan of Arc.

To acquire is to get into more or less permanent possession, either by some gradual process or by one's determined efforts.

By eight o'clock we had taken the whole of the Talat ed Dumm position, and long-range sniping throughout the day did not disturb our secure possession of it.

The great authority of this family was supported by immense possessions and powerful alliances; and the abilities, as well as ambition of Godwin himself, contributed to render it still more dangerous.

If one has but little self-possession it is easy to give oneself up to others, to the world, to that indefinable Providential Force on whose shoulders we can throw the burden of thought and will.

Two hours after we were in peaceable possession of the property, the same two Russian vice-consuls drove up to the gate and began insulting and abusing the Persian Treasury guards, endeavoring, of course, to provoke the gendarmes into some act against them.

326 adjectives to describe  possession