Now what are generally called instruments are the efficients of something else, but
possessions are what we simply use: thus with a shuttle we make something else for our use; but we only use a coat, or a bed: since then making and using differ from each other in species, and they both require their instruments, it is necessary that these should be different from each other.
The posterity of Marmaduke did not escape the common lot of those who depend rather on their hereditary
possessions than on their own powers; and in the third generation they had descended to a point below which, in this happy country, it is barely possible for honesty, intellect and sobriety to fall.
Likewise a fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any other recognised symbol of
possession; so long as the party waifing it plainly evince their ability at any time to take it alongside, as well as their intention so to do.
We say that that is capable of some particular faculty or
possession has suffered privation when the faculty or
possession in question is in no way present in that in which, and at the time at which, it should naturally be present.
But every time he began talking to her, he felt that the spirit of evil and deceit, which had taken
possession of her, had
possession of him too, and he talked to her in a tone quite unlike that in which he had meant to talk.
To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his
possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth -- that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.
How many years he went on worrying the tribunals of his country to turn out the Duke in
possession, and to put himself in the Duke's place--how many lawyer's purses he filled to bursting, and how many otherwise harmless people he set by the ears together disputing whether he was right or wrong-- is more by a great deal than I can reckon up.
IT was in the summer of 1842 that we arrived at the islands; the French had then held
possession of them for several weeks.
If American, what was to become of the newly acquired
possession of the Northwest Company?
"If I am right in my own persuasion that such a document as I here describe is at this moment in Admiral Bartram's
possession -- a persuasion based, in the first instance, on the extraordinary words that I have quoted to you; and, in the second instance, on purely legal considerations with which it is needless to incumber my letter -- if I am right in this opinion, the discovery of the Secret Trust would be, in all probability, a most important discovery to your interests.
The good-natured Princess at once left her home and her family and hurried to the ruined castle, and took
possession of the room with the golden bed.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.