427 examples of posses in sentences

Posses, undoubtedly, would scour the country, searching for his slayer.

These walls are pierced by three tiers of windows, and posses that dismal appearance which distinguishes barracks, schools, and prisons.

Huh? Shore, I know him and Jakey Pooley sicked posses on my trail.

"Ornabat pietas et grata modestia vatem," wrote his brother Gabriel, "Sancta fides, dictique memor, munitaque recto Justitia, et nullo patientia victa labore, Et constans virtus animi, et elementia mitis, Ambitione procul pulsa fastûsque tumore; Credere uti posses natum felicibus horis, Felici fulgente astro

Be not so foolishly seducd; for what Can hope propose to you in any change Which ev'n now you posses not? Bar.

Fratres autem ducti fuerunt ad plateam ciuitatis, vbi accensus est ignis copiosus, in quen frater Thomas voluit se proijcere, sed quidam Saracenus cepit eam per caputium et retraxit dicens; Non vadus tu cum sis senex, quia carmen aliquod vel experimentum habere posses super te, quare te ignis non posset laedere, sed alium ire in ignem permittas.

His native born "brother-at-arms" is George Dysart whose son led the posses in the man-hunt that followed the shooting.

Heavily armed posses were sent out in all directions in search of "reds.

O si posses in specula sublimi constitutus, &c. 389.

Si vero, Crateva, inter caeteras herbarum radices, avaritiae radicem secare posses amaram, ut nullae reliquiae essent, probe scito, &c. 1833.

On the other hand, Vergil's master, while he affirms the causal nexus for the governance of the universe: nec sanctum numen fati protollere fines posse neque adversus naturae foedera niti [Footnote 4: The passages have been analyzed and discussed frequently.

About a thousand times, I guess posses went out after Piotto, but they never came back with a trace of 'em; they never got within shootin' distance.

Why, then, concede to them virtues which they did not posses?

Why, then, concede to them virtues which they did not posses.

Why, then, concede to them virtues which they did not posses?

Why, then, concede to them virtues which they did not posses.

However, he has ordered all his menthe different posses sent out in various directionsto draw in toward Anvil Rock, so that he will not be there long alone, and not at any time beyond the hearing of his men, should he find it necessary to call for help.

She lost it from her rosary at the confessional, and Father Francesco saw it fall, yet would not warn her of the loss, for he longed to posses something that had belonged to her.

Ascertained hiding places of runaway slaves were to be raided by constables and posses, and these were to be rewarded for taking the runaways alive or dead.

It is wise for us in America, who never had anything but free trade, according to modern doctrines, to look a little closely into the sophisms that are getting to be so much in vogue; and which, whenever they come from our illustrious ancestors in Great Britain, have some such effect on the imaginations of a portion of our people, as purling rills and wooded cascades are known to posses over those of certain young ladies of fifteen.

Like many reporters in the opening months of the war, Philip Gibbs and his companions seemed to posses the knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, following armies across northern France in the vain hope of being on hand to witness battle.

Several posses have already started after him, and sheriffs all through northern New England are being notified.

She would be working toward Ruggam, while the rest of the posses were trailing him.

Tibullus, in one of his finest poems (IV., 13), expresses the monopolistic wish that his favorite might seem beautiful to him only, displeasing all others, for then he would be safe from all rivalry; then he might live happy in forest solitudes, and she alone would be to him a multitude: Atque utinam posses uni mihi bella videri; Displiceas aliis: sic ego tutus ero.

Early in the year 1779 a leader of men came to the place where the old hunter had roamed and killed game; and with the new-comer came those who were to posses the land.

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