With the dawning light, the feeling of stupor and fear left me; and I came more into possession of my senses.

England's possessions in the West are indivisible, and what threatens one endangers all.

On the thirty-third day after I departed from Cadiz, I came to the Indian sea, where I found many islands inhabited by men without number, of all which I took possession for our most fortunate King, with proclaiming heralds and flying standards, no one objecting.

He was past speech, but he looked at us out of wide open half-frightened eyes that seemed to question the world despairingly, like an animal, broken helplessly in a trap.... There were some civilians wandering on the roads, liberated now but uncertain whither to go or what place was safe, their possessions on carts.

I am confident that the nations that have learned the discipline of freedom and that have settled with self-possession to its ordered practice are now about to make conquest of the world by the sheer power of example and of friendly helpfulness.

We took possession by the right of squatter sovereignty, the owner being unknown, or at all events, absent from the woods.

Behind them, at least four hundred people packed and waiting with their possessions at their feet, ready to be put aboard the instant the Oklahoma made fast.

Better for me a beggar's bowl than the richest possession from hands stained with the blood of the innocents of Jallianwala.

They further covenanted that if either had missed his reward the other should share his possessions with him.

Complete service to their country in this crisis may lead women to that economic freedom which will change a political possession into a political power.

Any information in my possession as to Mr. Saffron's affairs I shall, of course, be happy to give you.

This was not, however, granted save in a few cases: of the rest all the possessions without exception were ruthlessly plundered.

It seemed, indeed, opportune to remember at the moment that, while this alleged Little Miss was the daughter of Miss Caroline, she was likewiseand even more palpably, as I could note by fugitive swift glimpses of her facethe daughter of a gentleman whose metal had been often tried; one who had won his reputation as much by self-possession under difficulties as by the militant spirit that incurred them.

And she was surprised to see it, surprised by its assurance that no accident had happened to her possessions during the process of transformation carried out by George Cannon.

She desires her children to have that which she did not have, and for which she longed; or that which she now thinks so much better a possession than anything she did have.

When we French have a possession across the seas, we like to sit in Paris and to felicitate ourselves upon it.

It was, indeed, a great satisfaction to himself, that among the many arguments for prohibiting the Slave Trade, the security of our West Indian possessions against internal commotions, as well as foreign enemies, was among the most prominent and forcible.

"That this method of making settlements was first invented by a griping lawyer, who made use of the covetous tempers of the parents of each side, to force two young people into these vile measures of diffidence for no other end, but to increase the skins of parchment, by which they were put into each other's possession out of each other's power.

He took a view of the standing his family had maintained among the Sandy Lake Indians from an early day, and said that he had in his possession until very lately a French flag, which had been presented to some of his ancestors, but had been taken to exhibit at Montreal by his son-in-law (Mr. Ermatinger, an English trader recently retired from business).

About the time that these occurrences took place, the Egyptian army advanced into those parts of the city from which Caesar had withdrawn, producing those terrible scenes of panic and confusion which always attend a sudden and violent change of military possession within the precincts of a city.

The English rail at the perfidious French, and the French at the encroaching English: they quote treaties on each side, charge each other with aspiring to universal monarchy, and complain, on either part, of the insecurity of possession near such turbulent neighbours.

Or that he alone of mankind dared to buy the property of Pompey, having no regard for his own dignity or the great man's memory, but grasping eagerly those possessions over which we even now as at that time shed a tear?

I have endeavoured in several of my Speculations to banish this Gothic Taste, which has taken Possession among us.

But no law the fugitive knows, save of self-preservation, And, with a reckless greed, consumes all the possessions about him; Then are his passions also inflamed: the despair that is in him Out of his heart breaks forth, and takes shape in criminal action.

Besides giving up all her colonies, Germany surrenders all her rights and claims on her possessions beyond the seas (Art. 119), and all the contracts and conventions in favour of German subjects for the construction and exploiting of public works, which will be considered as part payment of the reparations due.