| 单词 | possess |
| 例句 | Kermit was always a good companion and an excellent outdoorsman, possessing the same relentless endurance as his father. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Do looked at her for a moment longer, as if just realizing that she did not, in fact, possess a tail. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Clearly, Revere is a thinker possessing an active intelligence, and we will recognize the pose of hand on chin as an old device used since antiquity to represent philosophers. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The bit of soul in that diary was possessing Ginny, wasn’t it? How does that work, then?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Are you possessed of,” he cleared his throat and read directly off the page. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One of the men told the chief that the only way we could possess such foreign cassettes was either by having looted them or if we were mercenaries. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Of course, possessing superpowers was my most frequent daydream. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z For Pandora, like all women, was possessed of a lively curiosity. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And it will have to find more money, much more—the kind of money that only federal governments possess—without losing any of its own initiative. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For about half an hour I played the best tennis of my life, played like a man possessed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what possessed me,” she said, more in her old tone. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Nathan was waiting for me and he said crossly: “You look like a corpse. Whatever possessed you to stay so long?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The women were both of goodly height Madame Ratignolle possessing the more feminine and matronly figure. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z As a young man, I was unlike McCandless in many important regards; most notably, I possessed neither his intellect nor his lofty ideals. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s clear to him that the invaders possess “scientific knowledge far in advance of our own.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “It is believed that dybbukim possess the living so that they may perform tasks they were unable to complete in life. What were those words he had you write, Alter?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Of those three neighbors, Aboriginal Australians remained hunter-gatherers with almost nothing to offer New Guineans that New Guineans did not already possess. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If this is Yakov’s dybbuk, why do you think he possessed you?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z All at once, Lady Constance resumed speaking in her customary sweet tone, as if it were the only voice she possessed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck’s wounds. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite a lot of dull, ordinary people weren’t ever possessed by anybody. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Helen had never been lazy that Theresa could see, but she had always seemed to possess a certain amount of energy, e, which she could expend on any projects, x, y, z. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I had lost control of myself and seemed possessed by a sinister force, which made me mindless of my safety, which spurred me toward reckless action, unafraid of death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Horses permitted people possessing them to cover far greater distances than was possible on foot, to attack by surprise, and to flee before a superior defending force could be gathered. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was startled, convinced my tutor possessed the power to scry the thoughts of mind and heart. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I gave a small cough and said: it is hardly for me to pronounce upon qualities I may or may not possess. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Citra wasn’t sure what possessed her to bring up the question she had been asked at conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z These braids were not delicate like a little girl’s but heavy and womanly, possessing a natural power, like a beaver’s tail. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Both were fair complexioned and slenderly made; both possessed faces full of distinction and intelligence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When I found out I was Divergent, I thought of it as a secret power that no one else possessed, something that made me different, better, stronger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Behind his glasses and striking outfit he possesses an imposing bald forehead and the huge, triangular upper body of a comic-book bully. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, when Esther and Royal and Deborah were dead, and Gabriel was leaving the South, people remembered this sermon and the gaunt, possessed young man who had preached it. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She had friends—a quality that the rest of us noticeably did not possess, except for Francis and Eric, who were more like the same person than they were like actual friends. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I tell her that there is important information in the Erudite compound, in addition to all the knowledge they possess, that especially needs to be recovered. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “It’s perfectly clear an ancestor waited in that mine for many years until he found a willing person to possess.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I left the job that following Saturday, not telling them that I would not be back, not possessing the heart to say good-bye. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Jemmy wondered what had possessed him to refer to Prince Brat as his friend. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z All we have to be is eighteen or older, bondable, possessing a car and a home phone and having one year of Minnesota residency. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Does this mean all that drivel about the Augurs being possessed by spirits of the dead is true? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The toxic river water was still possessed of its death-dealing power after passing more than 200 miles downstream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He will not be permitted to enlist in the military, or possess a firearm, or obtain a federal security clearance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “How can you possess something that you have destroyed? One charge or the other should be set aside.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I must have been possessed by the devil!” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z And there is nothing more necessary than to seem to possess this last quality. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she was possessed by an intoxicating—and frightening—sense of power. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When I saw it that night, as he wound it and arranged it on the coffee table, an uneasiness possessed me; life, I realized, was being lived in Dacca first. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And he dances in the dust like a thing possessed. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do you really think I would risk attacking the Bureau for the Black Book without already possessing the Black Key?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As humans, music is an innate part of our existence, as we all possess the physical mechanisms to make and process organized sound just as we do language. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Otherwise, I thought she possessed the most exquisite control over the muscles of her face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever possessed him to do such a thing without saying a word?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Voldemort had known about the Deathly Hallows, surely he would have sought them, done anything to possess them: three objects that made the possessor master of Death? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Yet awareness of the fact that insects possess an effective counterweapon to aggressive chemical attack seems to have dawned slowly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A dark wisp of smoke—Percy guessed it must be an eidolon—seeped into a Cyclops, made the monster hit himself in the face, then drifted off to possess another victim. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They lost the few manners they possessed and used the table linens for blowing their noses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s because he possessed the kind of savvy that allowed him to get what he wanted from the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ancient farmers might seem to us dirt poor, but a typical family possessed more artefacts than an entire forager tribe. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Voldemort had not been able to possess Harry while Harry was consumed with grief for Sirius, so his thoughts could not penetrate Harry now, while he mourned Dobby. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Miss Trunchbull possessed none of these qualities and how she ever got her present job was a mystery. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Very good. For now you truly understand the danger you are in. My master—a magician whose magic dwarfs your 100 percent—now possesses the Black Book!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “They say that the prince is possessed with love for a woman who is unworthy of him.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A bowl of roses in a drawing-room had a depth of colour and scent they had not possessed in the open. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Without word, without hesitation, Jinny turned, crossed the small room, and kicked the door open with a bare foot and strength she had no idea she possessed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “She’s an illusionist. If she possesses any other kind of magic in addition to this, such as what’s necessary to create hybrids, it remains to be seen.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Working without walls meant that Min possessed great skill and the confidence to match it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “It’s over,” Gregor said with an authority he didn’t know he possessed. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Let me see—you have done fine in the sale, David. Eighteen boxes sold. Fine. Fine. Not only are you an excellent scholar but you possess school spirit.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In principle, the single-celled embryo does possess all the genetic information to specify a full organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Washington was an inherently stiff and formal man who cultivated aloofness and possessed distancing mechanisms second to none. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The angrier, more powerful ghosts used the trolley to find new hosts: tired, unsuspecting bodies to possess for a little while, warmth to steal from cheeks and other exposed skin, and ill tempers to stoke. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The grief that had possessed him since Dumbledore’s death felt different now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Nothing is mine, I know nothing, I possess nothing, I have learned nothing. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the interview, the regent bade me good-bye and handed me a pound note for pocket money, the largest amount of money I had ever possessed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had failed even to make fruitful use of the one skill I did possess—the art of charactery. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was as though she were possessed by some evil spirit. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I had ever considered myself, up until that point, as possessed of a meticulous and even over-fastidious disposition. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When she says yes and I slip the ring onto her finger, the plane erupts with yelling and applause, and it’s as if all of us are possessed by something we will never understand. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Anyone possessing a television set during this period would likely have had some awareness of the extent to which black men had been demonized in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Frodo and his companions huddled round the fire, wrapped in every garment and blanket they possessed; but Strider was content with a single cloak, and sat a little apart, drawing thoughtfully at his pipe. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And what they termed ‘ ‘the true knowledge of the black man’ ’ that was possessed by the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given shape for me in their lengthy letters, sometimes containing printed literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we are wondering whether nuclear weapons will proliferate around the world by the same often-violent process, from the eight countries that presently possess them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were also accused of stealing the household items and tools they possessed, because supposedly such items should belong only to white people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was bitterly cold and there was ice on the ground, as during the days when he had first possessed her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z His shiny eyes, bony hands, and shadowy smile all seemed to be things only adults possess. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Most duels lasted no longer than a minute or two, one person quickly proving himself more clever or possessed of a stronger will. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “No one is getting possessed,” the woman snapped. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Gogol knows now that his parents had lived their lives in America in spite of what was missing, with a stamina he fears he does not possess himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The small metal cylinder allowed the avatar who possessed it to transform into Ultraman once a day, for up to three minutes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The wind blew from Faerie and the East, and Tristran Thorn suddenly found inside himself a certain amount of courage he had not suspected that he had possessed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The can jiggled and danced, as though possessed by a ghost. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the fun of it,” began Laurie, who had got a willful fit on him and was possessed to break out of bounds in some way. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It became apparent he was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm was a charismatic leader, tall and lean, articulate, good-looking, possessing obvious physical courage, a warm and ready sense of humor, and immense faith in his mission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The man was the head of the household, and his wife, along with everything she possessed, was his property. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a kind of power I never knew I possessed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And it was taboo because, more than any other controversy, it possessed the political potential to destroy the union. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘It is quite made up. Go away and leave it behind. Stop possessing it. Give it to Frodo, and I will look after him.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And simply because of that fact, he possessed a certain dignity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For all the talk in the late 1920s about the links between genes and identity, the gene itself appeared to possess little identity of its own. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She possessed eyes whose gaze I delighted to encounter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Gethenians do not share their earth as Terrans do with those older societies, those innumerable cities of little sexless workers possessing no instinct but that of obedience to the group, the whole. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z If he had possessed the steel nerves not to become rattled in public before, now he was: “I’ve reached the end of my rope!” he shouted to the audience of five hundred. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of friendship for you, they would have given up all they valued; indeed, all they possessed.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Sure, he’d been possessed at the time; but still Mars demanded vengeance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But she was stymied when she tried to recall the urgency of that moment, the grain of the feeling that possessed her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the first magic items my avatar had ever possessed, and they made me feel unstoppable. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The crowd, invisible but possessing a huge, menacing voice, roared its approval of a Calhoun girl’s basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to possess some kind of authority in the Brotherhood, but his exact function was unclear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you call yourself an artist! What pretensions, Madame! The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an intense and brilliant young man who possessed a great positional sense. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You didn’t have a choice about who possessed you: when a spirit wanted you, he or she generally got his or her way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They moved through her, then: ghost hands lent her strength that she no longer possessed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Madison possessed the subtlest and most intellectually sophisticated understanding of the choices facing the new American republic of any member of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And there’s a man whose son killed himself, who believes that the son must have been possessed by real demons, rather than fighting the more metaphorical ones inside. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The fireflies reflected off the shiny forest leaves, looking like possessed Christmas lights. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Mark’s attention was fully on the man in the green suit now, and a sudden gray tinge washed over the man’s face, as if he’d been possessed by some ghostly presence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Despite their big advantage over the Aborigines in possessing guns with which to hunt, Burke and Wills starved, collapsed, and died within a month after the Aborigines’ departure. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I take it you already possess great caches of treasure. It surprises me that such a meager financial offering as I could supply would entice you to trade.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The man possesses quite an imposing air, one of barely repressed violence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Angelos, a twenty-four-year-old record producer, possessed a weapon—which he did not use or threaten to use—at the time of the sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My parents seem to me possessed of great dignity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just don’t expect a bag for helping,” I tell him, which makes my father give me a stern look, probably wondering what would possess me to be so nasty about it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But Turner, feeling a familiar unreality taking hold, could not discount the possibility that the woman was possessed of certain powers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Penelope knew it was unlikely that any squirrel would possess even a fraction of Edith-Anne’s resourcefulness, and this one in particular had already shown signs of muddled thinking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I began to laugh, too, because my uncle was trying to say something and he was so possessed with laughter that he couldn’t say a complete word without launching into another fit of laughter. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It wasn’t bad—usually—to be possessed: the Mellower had a shave for storytelling. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z You have flitted into Lord Voldemort’s mind without damage to yourself, but he cannot possess you without enduring mortal agony, as he discovered in the Ministry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Mother’s conversion to Dad’s philosophy was not total, however, and occasionally she was possessed of her old enthusiasm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to go in there with an open flame?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Family lore had it that he possessed unexplained skills and senses, that his nimble hands could spirit away afflictions in both humans and animals. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Jem, Dill, and she would have been bored stiff had not Reverend Moorehead possessed a singular talent for fascinating children. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Holmes possessed Julia now as fully as if she were an antebellum slave, and he reveled in his possession. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He decides that his only hope is to be bold—a quality this Harvard man possesses in abundance. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He came from the water and the marsh possessed by a stern angel that burned in the blood around his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She could only share the qualities she already possessed, and she couldn’t help anyone who wasn’t worthy of being a hero. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps the reason Yakov had possessed me was because he had been chasing after the same atonement I had yearned for all along. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I feel possessed as I lunge for the pad and flip the pages until I find him, that final version. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And worse, somewhere, circling and flitting around that dread, was another awful feeling: nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He was tense, possessed, fearful that if he slowed or paused he might lose the courage or the momentum he needed to get out. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His chin went up instead of down, and there was a glint in his eye that he had not possessed when he had worn a bowler hat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Out in front, the Japanese, still rowing like demons possessed, stretched their lead over the British to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A part of my mind I had no idea I possessed until that moment took over and, like a great general, called all to order. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In fact, he sometimes envied his neighbors whatever it was some of them still possessed—call it cultural integrity—that he had mostly turned his back on by accepting the sheriff s job. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The amazing thing,” he tells me, “is that you still haven’t learned how to make it last longer than a single day. You have no idea the power that you possess.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In its brief, the orchestra argued, “The plaintiff does not possess the necessary physical strength to be a leader of the trombone section.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “What can possess him to come home in that style?” said Miss Ingram. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But he couldn’t stop reading him, he said, because it had become increasingly obvious to him that Freud had possessed an almost uncanny insight into the nature of man. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Twining his hands in her hair, he kissed her as if possessed, and they tumbled into the flowers, their bodies hidden in the tall grass. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I already know Katherine's pretty face is one of them, so what others does the man possess? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You will vow on the River Styx never to return to this ship,” Piper continued, “and never to possess any member of this crew.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Unfortunately Jackson is not possessed of such calm and reasoned logic. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, however, it was the cows who were responsible for the wood’s isolation, and the cows, through some wisdom they were not wise enough to know that they possessed, were very wise indeed. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was that Grace Poole? and is she possessed with a devil?” thought I. Impossible now to remain longer by myself: I must go to Mrs. Fairfax. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He didn’t possess a good enough arm, and no amount of work was going to make up for that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So now the Sixers were the only ones who possessed that clue. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Although Roosevelt wasn’t a natural athlete, he possessed another quality that made him stand out. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They possessed a sense of kinetics that translated to the stage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t doing just any dance—he was a man possessed, a man who knows in his heart that he is the greatest dancer on earth. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z When I was forced to resign from the ANC, the organization had to replace me, and no matter what I might have liked, I could no longer wield the authority I once possessed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In some contradictory way grief seemed to have etched on Mercy’s thin face a beauty it had never possessed. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He possessed an uncanny knack for winning the big races, the ones that really counted. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As one of her great-aunts had written about her when she was a little girl, she possessed “so much affection in her nature as will secure her from selfishness.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If he possesses at birth some qualities that make him less susceptible than others to poisons he is more likely to survive and produce children. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She warned me not to come home expecting to have the things my friends possessed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The laboratory also possessed the best flight research engineers, who worked closely with test pilots, sometimes as passengers in the vehicle itself, to capture data from planes in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As a baby, even as a little girl, I possessed an awkward, extravagant beauty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z No one was more beloved, or possessed of more authority, and so no one was more dangerous. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was during these night rides with his father that the feeling of what it was like to be an adult often possessed Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever possessed us, when we were in love, has departed. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She also knew Ashton Place possessed a fourth floor, but she had never had cause to visit it, until now. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Thus, we possess much more information about past states and their formation than about past chiefdoms, tribes, and bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “For shame! Superstitious old man! He’s a little boy! He’s not possessed!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I’m possessed as I continue beating Gavin Rose on his body and face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I had not seen my grandparents in three years, not since my parents had begun telling the extended family that I was possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I paced the floor, knowing that all I possessed were words and dim knowledge that my country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mademoiselle Reisz came and touched her upon the shoulder and spoke to her, the woman seemed to echo the thought which was ever in Edna’s mind, or, better, the feeling which constantly possessed her. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He could not help but possess this unhappy perspective, no matter how much he might not want it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She possessed exceptional if not unique qualities for serving as an astronaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The author must possess a range of expertise spanning the above disciplines, so that relevant advances can be synthesized. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Martials believe that supernatural power comes from spirits of the dead and that only the Augurs are possessed by such spirits. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She looked like she was possessed by something as ferocious as the wolves themselves, and Kaede was chilled by the expression on her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z What possibly could’ve possessed any person to want to spread it? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There was a time when a girl like Cathy would have been called possessed by the devil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What should he do with the carton of foulness he now possessed? The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it necessary, was it right, was it not a foolish thing that he should possess a mango tree and a garden? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He seldom opened a book and never did any homework, but he managed to survive because he possessed a native and cunning intelligence. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t know what possessed me to follow my Jimmy to this godforsaken colony.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed me one of the two rifles we possessed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Her arms reached out, desperate to possess him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z To attribute to him qualities that he does not possess. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In ceremonies of public worship, they have been moved, assured that their lives— all aspects of their lives, from waking to eating, from birth until death, all moments—possess great significance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Reck could read and write, and he was possessed of enough base cunning to have hidden an account of what they'd done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I can’t think, the pain robbing me of whatever wit I possess. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Holding his large hands up, pumping his knees high, prancing, his great red beard flapping, his two-pointed hat bobbing this way and that, the hat bells jingling, he was like one possessed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The key insight, possessing the potential to unlock the mystery produced by the contradictory versions of what happened during the duel, is that both sides constructed their explanations around self-serving and misguided assumptions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I will not let you possess me or destroy my life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z And then, for the fourth time since I first set foot in Minnesota over a year ago, everything I possess is loaded into a vehicle and I am on my way to somewhere new. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But once Jefferson laid it out before him so elegantly in the summer of 1813, Adams at last possessed a target on which to focus his considerable firepower. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Like a smart monkey, Colin possessed an extensive vocabulary, but very little grammar. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The experience of possessing them lasted for less than a day and it threatened him with speedy death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, they must possess enormous self-confidence, strong egos, and titanic willpower. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was no tune to it, but it possessed a curious twanging quality as of plucked strings. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to do this?” she asked. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He had nothing in the bank, and possessed no collateral, unless you counted the tiny trailer he and his family crowded into. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He had only to possess his soul in patience and wait before the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I don't know what possessed me, but I chased after him and begged him to tell me where he had taken my father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He possessed an extra vigor, a heightened confidence in himself, a serene capacity for affection which saved him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who possess this power, her dad said, could interpret dreams, repel disease or death, inform hunters where to find game, and send a spirit helper to harm their enemies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z After 1808, Congress possessed the authority to do what it wished; then all constitutional restraints would lapse. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z While San Franciscans were reading his obituary in several papers, the decidedly undead Neves rode like a man possessed, finishing second or third on all five of his mounts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did ask something of Miss Havisham, however, sir. I asked her to give me some information relative to her adopted daughter, and she gave me all she possessed.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She had a level of fearlessness that you have to possess to take on something like she did. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Harry,” she said, crouching down in front of him and using the kind of voice he associated with visiting the very sick, “you don’t think you’ve been possessed, do you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And I thought maybe the doctor was mistaken, my parents were mistaken, and now they had taken Lynn away when she still possessed a small spark of life in her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, for all their similarities, had possessed a majesty she didn’t, and a cruelty, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But he was possessed by a frenzy of fear and rage, and he struggled to get to his feet. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She was one of those children possessed by a desire to have the world just so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And getting possessed hadn’t robbed me of my dignity. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Nothing depressed him more than the moments in which he contrasted his current mental powers with what he had formerly possessed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In other words, the host is possessed by a life form that is attempting to convert the host into itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I no longer possess the courage of my pessimism. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I have seen one other example, but it was not so fine as this. And do you possess the books of readings?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He believed Root possessed a genius for envisioning a structure quickly, in its entirety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If identical twins possess a strong concordance for schizophrenia, say, while fraternal twins—born and bred in an identical environment—show little concordance, then the roots of that illness can be firmly attributed to genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We wouldn’t care what Mr. van Maaren thought of the situation except that he’s known to be unreliable and to possess a high degree of curiosity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The snow-covered mountain remained, without regard to titles of ownership or the white ranchers who thought they possessed it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His gestures were theatrical and wild, generated by an animal impatience that possessed his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z During the ceremony, he would be possessed by Goré’s spirit and would list the things it required to leave Nhamo’s family in peace. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he had lost them, he possessed none of them any more, neither fasting, nor waiting, nor thinking. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two things the factory manager possessed a morbid fear of: insects and stolen chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere, deep down inside, each of them grasped at shreds of will and strength they did not know they possessed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z None of the black Communists I knew possessed the intellectual capacity to formulate a Trotskyite position in politics. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her how back in Cuba the nannies used to think I was possessed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn't have as much education as the other young women, but she possessed determination. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Let someone take away any sense of privacy or security you might still possess. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z They gathered around the dining table, and Piper explained what had happened at Topeka 32—their conversation with Bacchus, the trap sprung by Gaea, the eidolons that had possessed the boys. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What Hamilton seemed to see in Burr, then, was a man very much like himself in several respects: ambitious, energetic, possessing an instinctive strategic antenna and a willingness to take political risks. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z What possessed her to challenge a forest fire? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Another time, though, I saw Auguste stop singing as though suddenly possessed and then begin to mime savagely beating someone on the floor, as though with a hammer or hatchet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I possess nothing,” said Siddhartha, "if that is what you mean. I am certainly without possessions, but of my own free will, so I am not in need.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z That sympathy for people my father said she possessed had overcome all obstacles. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It had more windows on one wall than the entire village of Zmeyreka possessed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Spain possessed it, while the Inca Empire did not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And when you arrive with your repeating rifles and your tanks, when you set upon children and helpless villages, should we not use the weapons we possess? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Burnham replaced him with Edward Shankland, an engineer from his own firm who possessed a national reputation as a designer of bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You only get to make one first impression, unless the person you meet possesses a rare and specific kind of generosity. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Her husband was just as welcoming, possessing a magnanimous Texas spirit that seemed to override any political hard feelings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I heard that they consider it a sure sign that the person is either possessed of low blood or fallen on truly desperate times....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Although he possessed extraordinary reserves of energy, he’d been profligate with those reserves, and by the time he got to Camp Four they were nearly depleted. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He felt glum; his offering, possessing the quality of an authentic old pre-war ritual, had not been accepted. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Being possessed continually by this thought of his land, Wang Lung saw as in a dream the things that happened about him in the city every day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They and we and all creatures in between possess many similar genetic instructions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Kenny had a history of mental instability—she claimed to be possessed by spells—and she had once even attempted to murder another local attorney. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the first encounter, we exchanged fire with a white man of the house, son or servant, possessed of a pistol and fowling-piece. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The sense of exhilaration that usually seemed to possess Edward as he ran was completely absent, replaced by a fury that consumed him and drove him still faster. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Had her own rash performance only served to cheat the child of the one toy she possessed? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The souls of Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham’s relatives might be looking for someone to possess. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps no organization on earth, save the Communist party, possessed so detailed a knowledge of how workers lived, for its sources of information stemmed directly from the workers themselves. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham now possessed formal authority to begin building a fair, but he still had no place to put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A gene, in short, possessed not just information to encode a protein, but also information about when and where to make that protein. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This enzyme occurs only in flies that possess a genetic factor for DDT resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people even believed that foxes possessed evil magic. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I don’t know what possessed me, but I grabbed her wrist, the list of punishments for touching an authority figure running through my head like a skipping CD, each scratch sharper than the next. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z With her eyes half-open, Tessie gazed out across the dark bedroom glinting and sparking in the corners, and saw before her all the items I had ever worn or possessed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The entire thrust of the colonists’ justification for independence was to reject that designation on the grounds that they possessed all the rights of British citizens. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They called each other wisdom as well, which Tyrion found almost as annoying as their custom of hinting at the vast secret stores of knowledge that they wanted him to think they possessed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He believed that all human beings possessed this ability, particularly his own family, and that if it did not function well it was simply due to a lack of training. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had ill-judged him, he was neither hard nor sardonic, he was already my friend of many years, the brother I had never possessed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It freaks him out so much more to think he was possessed by a girl, not a guy. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Aunt Rose had said that the salt and iron would keep a ghost from possessing her, but she hadn’t said anything about their ability to turn a body’s blood to ice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z After the palmer perhaps there would have prowled a rather more sinister figure: one of those who “sleep by day and watch by night, eat well and drink well, but possess nothing.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A fever possessed me suddenly, and I felt cold and hot at the same time. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was like he was possessed or in some kind of trance. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “If the Russians demonstrate a Super before we possess one, our situation will be hopeless,” he wrote in a frantic memo for a 1949 meeting on research priorities at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Ganesha is one of the oldest and most familiar Hindu deities, possessing a fat human body, four human arms, and the head of a cheerful-looking elephant. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether the Chicago police even possessed that kind of talent was open to question. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’ll try not to, but I’m always possessed to burst out with some particularly blunt speech or revolutionary sentiment before her. It’s my doom, and I can’t help it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes told of experience she did not yet possess. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The SS then condemned him to death, him and two other inmates who had been found to possess arms. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Only avatars who possessed a copy of the Crystal Key could cross the threshold of the castle’s front entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Remember first to possess his books, for without them he’s but a sot!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Then she intoned, as if she alone possessed this knowledge: “There is an American flag on the moon!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Hindsight permits us to listen to the debate of 1790 with knowledge that none of the participants possessed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that it, and especially its Fertile Crescent portion, possessed at least five advantages over other Mediterranean zones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I had wanted someone to talk to, not convince me that I was possessed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Not fast, and not wide—perhaps forty or fifty feet across—the river still seemed to possess force, strength as it ran. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a mystery once more, as at the eviction I had uttered words that had possessed me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Lillian who began to laugh and it spread to her children and possessed them, a laughter one part hysteria and one part relief. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I slid the notebook to the other side of the table like it was possessed, leaned back in my chair, and yanked the refrigerator door open. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Someone was demonstrating something that did something in the kitchen, and replaced a dozen other kitchen utensils, none of which Shadow possessed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But he was never able to believe that human beings had no divine genesis, and he always believed that humans possessed a soul. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was almost as if her mother were possessed. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The anger which had possessed him yesterday flared up again. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z You are listened to with respect and yet your connection with them is no longer so tight but that you cannot possess considerable freedom of action; even if the action is somewhat unorthodox.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I had not yet learned to feign knowledge that I did not possess, and as I had only a vague idea what a B.A. was, I questioned Mathona. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He possessed a flinty self-confidence that protected him like a shell from the world’s assaults. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He says he was possessed, but only for one day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She had always seemed younger than the other mothers, partly because of her size, but also because her face possessed a childlike quality. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Not in Marinn or the Tribal deserts, not even beyond the Empire, where woad-coated Barbarians danced beneath starlight for days, as if possessed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Now most head teachers are chosen because they possess a number of fine qualities. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The white man was hungry and greedy for land, and the black man shared the land with him as they shared the air and water; land was not for man to possess. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The minute they let their guard down—boom!—he possessed them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The point is, all these gymnasts possessed both power and grace, and it had nothing to do with their race. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z C. P. Ellis: hurting and hurtful, possessed of all the tedious, creaking, accumulated hatreds of the South, and yet guileless and—Riddick believed—essentially honorable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was coming back into possession of himself; for the past three minutes it seemed he had been under a strange spell, possessed by a force which he hated, but which he had to obey. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “How do you know that? What possessed you to bring me here?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Octavia possessed all of the qualities Romans looked for in the perfect wife. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Or perhaps time, as it will, lent the occasion a gravity that it did not possess, and everything was as Lander insisted: They were deluded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “How can I know that you are worthy of possessing the Copper Key?” he asked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She couldn’t imagine any good coming of her continuing to possess the poor girl, but she was also desperate to speak with her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The black wolf also possessed wisdom, she had observed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z DeSheim informed the company that he would produce any play they liked, and they sat like frightened mice, possessing no words to make known their vague desires. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z An elfin impulse possessed Nately and he moaned intentionally the next time there was a lull. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He was staring at me as though he was possessed by a spirit. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z First Ambuya had accused the doctor of making things up, and now she said Aunt Chipo had pretended to be possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The blacks of their eyes seemed almost natural, not like they were possessed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She imagined Coach Hedge getting impatient and aiming a ballista at the man in purple, or eidolons possessing the crew and forcing them to commit suicide-by-Hercules. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Most claim to have been possessed for a time much longer than a single day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I maintain that nurture, rather than nature, is the primary molder of personality, but my father possessed a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness, that I recognize in myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Welsh could not get beyond the outer wall of the castle, and the English inside could not tell what strength the enemy possessed. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Joon and I both possess Uhmma’s lean fingers, but without the hard, yellowed calluses formed by years of abuse from physical labor. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z For another girl, it may be that she has a handicapped brother, has stolen food, possesses a pair of red pants, is nearsighted and used to wear glasses, or has tasted chocolate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Piper made them promise to stay off the ship and not possess any of us. But if they followed us, and used other bodies to attack us, then they’re not technically breaking their vow...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The windows were almost completely fogged up, and they got even worse as I continued to act like I’d been possessed by demons. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z True, a couple of caveats were thrown in, but these were clearly meant to suggest that Durham, for all its achievements, still possessed a sense of humility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All this happy freedom and confidence passed away, of course, as they either grew sober or got drunk, but while it lasted it was like being possessed by a power greater than themselves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then everyone knew he was possessed by the spirit of the dead wife. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She soon possessed a thick file of nightmare accounts. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z To be domesticated, a candidate wild species must possess many different characteristics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An extraordinary vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seemed eager to possess it, and now he did, as much as it pained me to admit that. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the text also specifically says not to use this trick on a demon, for the demon will surely overpower and possess or even kill you. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Why was there no hemoglobin in his eye or his skin—even though eye cells and skin cells and, indeed, every cell in the human body possessed identical copies of the same gene? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “He could have been possessed at night!” the rabbi replies. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead of the natural environment there was rapidly substituted an artificial one composed of new chemical and physical agents, many of them possessing powerful capacities for inducing biologic change. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Most were armed with Imperial gold weapons—more Imperial gold than the entire Twelfth Legion possessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But this does not mean that science has progressed as a result of the work of a string of irreplaceable geniuses possessed of a special insight into how the world works. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This must mean that we possess genes for all kinds of information, with strands of special, peculiarly human DNA for the discernment of meaning in syntax. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Adams possessed a congenital affinity for deconstructed interpretations of history, of his own life, indeed of practically everything. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The torso, the soccer player’s calves and thighs, the arms of the twenty-year-old I never was, I possess now in my thirties. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point in her dream her daddy had appeared, only he was possessing Richard Caruthers, giving Ophie a dollar so that she could go see a movie and get an ice cream cone. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He could have bid anonymously, but he obviously wanted the world to know who now possessed the artifact. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Chapter 1, like Chapter 3, had not actually told him anything that he did not know; it had merely systematized the knowledge that he possessed already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Wart was so much impressed by the kindness of the old man, and particularly by the lovely things which he possessed, that he hardly liked to ask him personal questions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyhow, you were going to be possessed by the Big- Head Spirit tonight,” yelled the Baboon. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “She said she had been possessed by a shave for stealing, but a spirit medium drove it out.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She summoned the last seed of strength she carried within her, which she had not known she possessed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The place, he once told me, where no one can define you if you possess enough will. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z How can such a beastly man possess this sort of power over the world? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Now that the artifact’s sole power had been used, it no longer possessed any magical properties. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which everyone here possesses of it? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I don’t know what possessed me, but something did. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Each house consisted of two compartments, and each family at Lebrun’s possessed a compartment for itself, fitted out with all the essential paraphernalia of the bath and whatever other conveniences the owners might desire. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The fairy possesses a weak brand of magic that it may use to deter predators, such as the Augurey. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminded me that even the dead possessed HaShem’s sanctity and divine beauty and that no manner of defilement could take that away. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She saw the last hundred years possess her uncle for an instant. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She was not endowed with, or old enough to possess, such independence of spirit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z This quality is possessed by some chemicals of the chlorinated hydrocarbon group and by others of the organophosphorus group, all synthetically produced, as well as by certain naturally occurring substances. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When Mademoiselle Reisz came and touched her upon the shoulder and spoke to her, the woman seemed to echo the thought which was ever in Edna’s mind; or, better, the feeling which constantly possessed her. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z “Come into the moonlight, for I wish only to behold your beauty and your wit, which you possess in such abundance, it stops my heart.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “They are fine for rote learning, but the study of naming requires a level of dedication that ravel such as yourself rarely possess.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His only apparent ambition, like Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you think, it said with leaking contempt, that you possess more strength than I do, that you can just...pull me out? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I do possess the one thing I need to make something of myself one day: I have everything my Pa gave me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I who had never owned anything suddenly possessed property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, my stomach started hiccuping again, jumping around like I was possessed by something nasty. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They gave themselves more power than any single being has a right to possess. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As a result of their increased size, CroMS possess a ravenous appetite and devour everything in their path. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They couldn’t possess cash, cassette players with a record function, toiletries containing alcohol, sneakers worth more than fifty dollars, or more than fourteen newspapers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "There's never a thing you could possess that I would take for your passage. Now, if you'll not work for me at the market at Wall, then be off with you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z But for now, something simpler possessed his heart, something bright and hard and unshakable: vengeance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “It must be very exciting for you. Probably a little scary, too, huh? Knowing you now possess information that millions of people would be willing to kill for?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One day, so everyone said, this Power would possess him; he would sing and cry as they did now, and dance before his King. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The term concordance refers to the fraction of twins who possess a trait in common. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He’d need to hire another army of bodyguards.Wealth such as Opium possessed lured criminals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was possessed of that cold, cruel sense of purpose that preceded murder. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Roy wasn’t sure what possessed him to wise off to such a violent kid. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I swear to you, the boy had to be possessed. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Michael, the slave in question, had indeed possessed the ability to recite long passages. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Every cadet possessed a burning desire to be recognized, but never noticed, as his piercing blue eyes evaluated his corps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Mom! The elephant is possessed. You really need to wake up!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I need information she alone possesses,” Gwydion said quickly. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “The Dark Lord no longer seeks the Elder Wand only for your destruction, Mr. Potter. He is determined to possess it because he believes it will make him truly invulnerable.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The Talking Robot was a tour de force, a thoroughly impractical device, possessing publicity value only. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When the strait was at last flooded around 10,000 years ago, Tasmanians and mainland Australians became cut off from each other because neither group possessed watercraft capable of negotiating Bass Strait. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Rochester heard, but heeded not: he stood stubborn and rigid, making no movement but to possess himself of my hand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Having wiped out these leaders, and having reduced their partisans to his allies, the Duke had laid very good foundations for his power, possessing all of the Romagna along with the Duchy of Urbino. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In the military, brilliant generals are said to possess "coup d’oeil”—which, translated from the French, means "power of the glance”: the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There can be little doubt, on the other hand, that people possess an aesthetic faculty. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to give him signed checks?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Luke had been twisted and evil long before Kronos possessed him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z This opened wide vistas of scenes and locales that I did not so much visit in my reading, but rather possessed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He possessed a secret treasure that had come to him long ages ago, when he still lived in the light: a ring of gold that made its wearer invisible. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His filthy little friends told him there was a place, deep in an Albanian forest, that they avoided, where small animals like themselves had met their deaths by a dark shadow that possessed them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His senses subconsciously savored the clatter of rats and the smell of old paper and wood and the possessed feeling that his pair of baggy Levy Pants gave him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Ashe played like a man possessed; and had Connors not been at his best, Ashe would have been crowned the champion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does possess some magic. Personally, I think it’s the warrior who wields it.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I was sure Mother would have told every brother, cousin, aunt and uncle the story she had told Erin: that I was possessed, dangerous, taken by the devil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly the terrible, dark fear that had possessed me was gone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I packed the few things that I possessed, and early one morning we set out on a journey westward to my new residence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The most striking examples of variation involved flies collected from the same region that possessed two radically different configurations of the same genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He couldn’t push the minds of the dead as he could the living, but he could use all the tools of flattery and persuasion he possessed, for the dead are not immune to either. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Now that I have recalled this episode, another event from around that time in my father's career comes to mind which demonstrates perhaps even more impressively this special quality he came to possess. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z "They wear everything they possess," the foreman replied. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They were vocal about the petty individual wrongs they suffered, but they possessed no desire for a knowledge of the picture as a whole. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Each one was an entity in its own right, each possessed its own consciousness and a full set of limbs capable of autonomous movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I imagine a mother as a woman who, first and foremost, possesses a great deal of tact, especially toward her adolescent children, and not one who, like Momsy, pokes fun at me when I cry. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Is there something humans possess that makes us worth saving? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Even at that young age, Luna possessed a mechanical mind, and was able to construct little machines that whirred and ticked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Usually on points related to his love of the right to possess guns. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I was truly dumbfounded by this deep fury that possessed her whenever she looked at me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Rita became a prizewinning math student, and Kuda, to no one’s surprise, was possessed by his great-great-grand- uncle, a famous fighter pilot, and was taught military strategy from the inside out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z People possessed by demons would start running up and down the aisles like madmen, screaming in tongues. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So they relied completely upon cavalry, since for possessing only a reasonable number of horsemen they were provided for and honoured. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z As though I did not possess the power of speech, I stepped forward and simply handed her the forged note, not parting my lips. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have to throw up every defense I possessed to keep my brain’s wandering hands still, because Clancy was more than capable of keeping me out of his head. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Whether I wish it or not, I possess them, their spouses and children, their jobs and money and life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her age was a mystery, since she didn’t possess a birth certificate. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A territory is only possessed for a moment in time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course her load is heavy; these bags contain everything she possesses in the world. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “That cloak is the most valuable thing I possess. It’s more valuable than gold. I’m not having you wearing it and going around and making mischief.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The young Mr. Gitney possessing a not inconsiderable shelf of books, I surveyed their titles for one which might engage me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She didn’t know whether they were injured or possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The two major contestants for the presidency in 1796, then, not only possessed impeccable revolutionary credentials; they had also earned their fame as a team. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Martials believe that the Augurs’ “power” comes from being possessed by the spirits of the dead. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She worked as though possessed, and maybe she was possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawson was an opportunist, and although he was soft-spoken and possessed Old World manners, his invitation wasn’t proffered completely out of courtesy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The existence of dominant and recessive alleles for a trait contradicted nineteenth-century theories of blending inheritance: the hybrids that Mendel had generated did not possess intermediate features. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Molly Molasses lived into her nineties, coming and going from Indian Island, and was said to possess m’teoulin, power given by the Great Spirit to a few for the good of the whole. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Here within this quiet greenness I possessed the only identity I had ever known, and I was losing it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, salivating at the thought of finally possessing all those classics I had read on many a visit to the library. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had long possessed a house of his own and his own servants, and a garden at the outskirts of the town, by the river. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z There are sights there that he has not forgotten, because he never possessed them—perplexing, yet lost to him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel was afraid the strange voice might possess her again. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Crying made his whole body shake wildly, as if he were possessed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t survive the death serum without an inoculation, and I’m the only person in the compound who possesses that substance.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The mud^imu of the Matsika clan would possess him and give Father advice from the ancestors. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It meant Tyler was ready to denounce me, to say my father’s words, that I was possessed, dangerous. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Fatal results may follow, also, from less toxic herbicides if the plant itself happens to be poisonous or perhaps to possess thorns or burs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Having possessed Esther, the carnal man awoke, seeing the possibility of conquest everywhere. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z What he was saying possessed an intrinsic logic which he had no means of halting; it had to grind to its own conclusion. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The beauty I possessed as a baby only increased as I grew into a girl. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her only child’s wedding—die culmination of all she had been, thought or done in this world— had dragged from her energy and stamina even die did not know she possessed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The vitality which the snail’s eggs possess surpasses belief. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Except for a few items picked up at an army PX, the clothes I still possessed had been chosen for a subsequent visit to the Italian Alps. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He had a flawless and very feminine handwriting that seemed detached from the man possessing it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I find this logic distinctly un-Addie-like, considering that there are popular girls we could ask, but I do not at that moment possess the crucial nugget of information that will later explain her odd behavior. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z It reminded him of his helplessness in the House of Hades - the way Clytius had smothered him in darkness, snuffing out his fire, possessing his voice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Once it had lost the head start that it had enjoyed thanks to its locally available concentration of domesticable wild plants and animals, the Fertile Crescent possessed no further compelling geographic advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was sometimes possessed of strange rages and would strike out with his walking stick and even smash the furniture. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny muscles in my flank, muscles I hadn’t known I possessed, suddenly made themselves available. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In retrospect, Franklin’s final gesture at leadership served to solidify his historic reputation as a man who possessed in his bones a feeling for the future. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Wait! What does helping entail? Are you going to possess Anya?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He seemed more enthusiastic, more vital than his imperturbable adversary, who possessed a style that was obviously more professional, but at the same time less emotional for the large crowd that filled the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem likely that anyone would venture into the acacia thicket and, fortunately, the village had possessed only a single boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The possessed Taser ball lashed out with its tendrils and sent another shock through Hazel and Frank. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If my father had possessed the words, he would have said the whole enterprise was bad hubris. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Prendergast read widely and possessed a good grasp of the grip-car wrecks, murders, and City Hall machinations covered so fervently by the city’s newspapers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You see, spirit mediums are ordinary men and women when they’re not being possessed. A few of them fake messages when they can’t manage a real one.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If anything, she possessed him in death in a way that she never had while he was alive. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The corset seemed to possess its own sets of hands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Within a week the ship jumpers possessed mill jobs—stacking lumber, sweeping sawdust, hauling slab wood, oiling machines—worth eleven cents an hour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Emboldened by this good news, I also asked if I could use the one computer that the school possessed to write Caitlin the request that day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Just once in his life he had possessed—after the event: that was what counted—concrete, unmistakable evidence of an act of falsification. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But Bill knew that Grammer, whom the Osage Chief called the “county’s most notorious character,” possessed secrets and controlled an unseen world. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z An indefinite boycott would require massive machinery and vast resources that we did not possess, and our past campaigns showed no indication that we were up to such an undertaking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My phone rings, and I almost drop it like it’s possessed. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The supporting cast was mostly disenfranchised Indians, Mexicans, and cowpunchers, all of whom possessed horsemanship and livestock skills honed on the vanishing frontier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We here at the Mumbai Young Filmmakers Council are all in agreement that Miss Mehra possesses the unique ability to truly transform her characters on-screen in such a way as to spellbind her audience. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I didn’t start World War Three. I just got possessed by an evil spirit. That’s a relief!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “This was once the seat of the Pandava brothers and their wife, Draupadi. You mere pinches of mortality are nothing compared to them. You cannot possess me!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He held out the prospect of becoming part of something larger than themselves, of finding in themselves something they did not yet know they possessed, of growing from boyhood to manhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “But one does not parade the fact that one is All-Knowing. I frequently act as though 1 am not possessed of the Inner Eye, so as not to make others nervous.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I want to live in a world that possesses these children, or I don't want to live at all. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In fact, they were welcomed as the Tallises began to understand that the baby of the family possessed a strange mind and a facility with words. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In human societies possessing domestic animals, livestock fed more people in four distinct ways: by furnishing meat, milk, and fertilizer and by pulling plows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Worst of all was the realization that she had been possessed by the spirit of a witch. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While Kit resorted to ingenious tricks, Mercy possessed the patience. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I’m not the first woman on earth to have seen her daughters possessed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But white men with far more political power than that possessed by the Nation of Islam movement have been advocating exactly this, in effect, for generations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z At least the possessed manatee dudes were on the other side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Rachel, with a ghost of the charm she must once have possessed, succeeded in drawing William, if not actually into the circle, at least to its warm circumference. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z You cannot “see” this cube nor feel its edges—but it shares the one property that all physical objects must possess: it generates shadows. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Aw, Ma, don’t you-all worry none,” he said, amazed at his own words; he was possessed by a queer, imperious nervous energy. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “What possessed you to tell those stories about my saddle, and the hats and boots, and all the rest of it?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Confused, the sheepherder invoked Saint Anthony’s aid, even though that saint possessed nowhere near Santa Inez’s power when it came to locating lost pets. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonni, who possesses the humor of a clenched fist, stiffens noticeably. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z It said: “If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z For Darwinian evolution to work, the mechanism of inheritance had to possess an intrinsic capacity to conserve information without becoming diluted or dispersed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Therefore, it is not necessary for a prince to possess all of the above-mentioned qualities, but it is very necessary for him to appear to possess them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Something possesses me and I’m able to move. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The long years of solitude and unhappiness had distilled her emotions and purified her feelings down to a few terrible, magnificent passions, which possessed her totally. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel and Frank had been knocked out by the tendrils of a possessed steampunk bowling ball. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Your companion is not one who is possessed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z If you have ever had the privilege of meeting such men, you will no doubt know of the quality they possess to which I refer. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He spent the rest of the day alternately staring into space and writing like a man possessed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Our machine possessed one very special feature which I don’t think you see on the cars of today. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he was finding it almost impossible to do either, so scrambled were his powers of performance by the compulsive need for haste that invariably possessed him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He possessed them all and reveled in his possession. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The other is very strange. I cannot tell what it is, what it will do, how it was made. But I want to understand it. How did you come to possess it?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The idea that Lefty, who shared her eyes and eyebrows, who slept in the bed beside hers, could be possessed by such a desire had never occurred to Desdemona before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He first worked for Holmes as a common laborer but soon proved to possess a talent that Holmes found particularly valuable. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In Greek mythology the sorceress Medea, enraged at being supplanted by a rival for the affections of her husband Jason, presented the new bride with a robe possessing magic properties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yes, Harry thought, Tom Riddle would certainly have understood Helena Ravenclaw’s desire to possess fabulous objects to which she had little right. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended, and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It possesses in fact a sort of group mind. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “All this she must possess,” added Darcy, “and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z In the Cape of South Africa the arriving Europeans found not only Khoi hunter-gatherers but also Khoi herders who already possessed only domestic animals, not crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I was possessed by the devil, too,” another guy says. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He’d stand on the pulpit, handkerchief in hand, wrestling with the Bible verses like a man possessed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to possess some kind of instinct which told them several seconds in advance when a rocket was coming, although the rockets supposedly traveled faster than sound. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In Boston, however, Holmes had discovered that she possessed other winning attributes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For a moment I’d almost forgotten the old lady with her bright eyes and her maniacal smile, the way she’d suddenly seemed possessed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A “smooth” strain possessed a slippery, sugary coat on the cell surface and could escape the immune system with newtlike deftness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Furthermore, to even enter the damaged store, strewn everywhere with debris and broken glass, would have required an agility that she did not possess. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z For Darwin’s theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He possessed grand—some would say grandiose—spiritual ambitions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Army Airborne School is a collection of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, cadets, and anyone else who has received the funding and possesses the will to become Airborne-qualified. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z This new adversary possessed the gift she’d always craved, and up against it, she was nothing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As if possessed by a will of their own, my arms reach for her neck and my hands close around her throat, squeezing hard. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if the eidolons might just leave those bodies behind, seep underground, and possess one of them instead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She used muscles she hadn’t known she possessed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then comes the question of how he could possess such an umbrella. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was glad to have Frank at his back, big and strong and able to turn into scary animals in case those possessed tourists somehow broke through the hatch, squeezed inside, and followed them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z How it was rumored that the boy carver was enchanted or possibly possessed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Mesoamerican writing is believed to have arisen independently of Old World writing, because there is no convincing evidence for pre-Norse contact of New World societies with Old World societies possessing writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Smith had indeed marched on to Concord, possessed the town, destroyed such military stores as had not yet been hidden. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was gagging, then hacking violently, and he shook his hands in front of him—with his eyes closed, shaking his hands, he appeared almost possessed—and I felt my forehead break into a sweat. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Babulya also told me about an evil possessing spirit! She called it ru’ach tezazit. It’s a bad spirit that gets inside someone and makes them say or do things they would never do.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The supposition that Remedios the Beauty possessed powers of death was then borne out by four irrefutable events. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is,” he writes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z "But how? Only a few men in the whole country possess the knowledge —" "Then one of them is an inmate of a semi-madhouse," the vet said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The family seems to possess every piece of the landscape, not only the house itself but every tree and blade of grass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He thought that she possessed the two great gifts: she was smart and she got the breaks— and you couldn’t want no better than that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She also seemed to possess a wisdom far beyond our years. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Not only do we possess an abundance of uncivilised cousins, once upon a time we had quite a few brothers and sisters as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By now Will’s exhaustion had been wiped out, He was wide awake and possessed by wonder. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After we came down from the trees, we evolved an upright posture; our hands were free; we possessed excellent binocular vision—we had acquired many of the preconditions for making tools. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What power did Holmes possess that gave him such control? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But now I possessed a new piece of information—the key was somewhere in Sector Seven. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I do. Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He says he can hardly believe that he really possesses me. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It is a name one does not simply possess, but has to live up to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask him, genuinely wondering what would possess someone with defective lungs to take a trip onto the roof in the dead of winter. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z They had saved him from the shadow, indeed, for they did not want him to be possessed by the shadow until he had become a slave of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “He has lost his reason and is possessed by his father’s demon,” I said in amazement. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Amy is with truth considered ‘the flower of the family’, for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a self-confidence about her that I never possessed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z "Whatever could have possessed me to drop the bowl into the fire?" she exclaimed aloud. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He felt armed in certainty, in his belief in the Hallows, as if the mere idea of possessing them was giving him protection, and he felt joyous as he turned back to the other two. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Here was a sliver of man’s knowledge I was certain he possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Groves, who thought the latter shortcoming deprived Oppie of the scientific prestige the project leader should possess, plainly was unaware of the scientists towering reputation in the physics community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He would possess a picture of the two of them, eating fried onions under a magenta umbrella, which he would keep, he decided, safely tucked between the pages of his Russian grammar. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The museum would never have commissioned such a high-quality fake if they did not possess the real thing somewhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “We do not like possessing machines, but they are better than tourists. You will not leave here alive.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I was bewildered by the seeming madness that possessed him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Why does he train like a demon possessed? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Work in that household never ceased, and it called for skill and patience, qualities Kit did not seem to possess. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I’m sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even Uncle Kufa hadn’t possessed anything that fine, and it seemed a shame to leave it behind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer, he said, was that he must have been possessed by a demon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Plainly she was possessed of some fierce evil that would enter these men if they touched her, or me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Dark Ages my parents would have sent for an exorcist, because I was clearly possessed by evil spirits, or maybe even the Devil himself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “What possesses him!” were some of the replies she gathered, uttered simultaneously in French and English. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Russia already possessed long-range bombers able to fly thousands of miles—enough to reach the US mainland. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The garrulous ferret showed the rats that he possessed a sound knowledge of the principles of fulcrum and leverage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The one holding me got stung right on the tip of his nose, and he hollered and flapped his arms as if possessed by demons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Like Lee, Grant possesses a genius for warfare—indeed, he is capable of little else. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I thought in a way that he was possessed and that maybe from then on he always would be. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of nightmare; I felt the fiend’s grasp in my neck and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rang in my ears. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only was I shocked when it turned out she was to be our teacher, but there and then I instinctively knew that whatever the principles of proper teaching were, she did not possess them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was a volatile, extremely complicated person, possessed of a brash demeanor that masked deep insecurities. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Either that, or the spirits that possessed the boys had also made them extra resilient. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z With only seventeen days until our deadline, I work through the day and night with a speed and efficiency I didn’t know I possessed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I only wondered if he possessed true sensitivity, as some men of great might, as you know, do not. For example, I wonder: is he capable of tears?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The thing that had devoured Skiorh's mind and possessed his flesh made the body take a step towards Ged, and the arms came groping out towards him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The true-bred pea plants, he noted, possessed distinct traits that were hereditary and variant. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I take it on faith that computers, although lacking souls, are possessed of a kind of intelligence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth, and grace—for never to any one else shall I seem to possess these charms. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But I and my kind possess another dimension. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Garland snapped, “I think you’re right; it would seem we lack a specific talent you humans possess. I believe it’s called empathy.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He obeyed an instinct that he did not know he possessed and swerved over the open space so that the spears went wide. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Rowan didn’t know what possessed him to do what he did next. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The demon walked upright, possessing three arms, three legs, and three tails. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Many, however, may wish to know more about this remarkable people from the outset, while some may not possess the earlier book. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do not believe that you dwarfs possess anything that could compensate me for my parents’ deaths. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z For me, the importance of all this was that I began to realize that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms and they took their inventing very seriously. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z James does not feel like he was possessed by the devil. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z With a lack of team spirit, some Wolverettes maintained that I possessed no coordination whatsoever. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Trolls don’t possess people,” Adelaide said, rolling her eyes at her brother. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In their ambitious effort to possess each other totally, there were not hours or words enough to tell each other their most intimate thoughts and deepest memories. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dasch possessed good manners and spoke eloquently, seemingly unaware that he often touched his nose or forehead with his index finger when he talked. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I suppose he wanted to remove that last fuel tank, but I can’t imagine what possessed him to light his torch without first draining the fuel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Miss Duncan is pretty enough; I tend to think she would make a fine revenant, possessing the bodies of young women and using them to avenge crimes of passion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The girls never talked of their feelings; none of them possessed the insight or the emotional equipment to understand themselves or others. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Offhand, I cannot think of any important human disease for which medicine possesses the outright capacity to prevent or cure where the cost of the technology is itself a major problem. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These are the parents of the new generation, which, by simple inheritance, possesses all the qualities of “toughness” inherent in its forebears. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And with but a few minutes between him and the beginning of judgment, the obscure longing to possess the thing which Max had dimly evoked in him was still a motive. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a superpower that black mommas possess—they can somehow go from being gentle to firm in a matter of seconds. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It had sensed the presence of the sword and had tried to kill Harry rather than let him possess it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Mary helped her son refine the vehicle until they possessed something that could roll down the street with its pilot, as the racers were known, in the drivers seat. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He had said good-by to caution and stretched himself far beyond any boundaries he ever dreamed he possessed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But some were bourgeois and uppity, had a sense of comfort and confidence she did not possess. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps, so long as people tried to possess things separately from each other, even honour and souls, there would be wars for ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he possessed a mind capable of tinkering with things just enough to make them impossibly confusing and himself so dissatisfied with his own intellectual inadequacies that he would never be happy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He possessed great knowledge, said the believers; he remembered his former lives, he had attained Nirvana and never returned on the cycle, he plunged no more into the troubled stream of forms. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z In many ways my parents seem so different from each other, but they possess this intimate mode of communication—a gesture, a look, a tone—that I envy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I went to him and put my hand on his shoulder with all the tenderness I possessed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Does each termite possess a fragment of blueprint, or is the whole design, arch by arch, encoded in his DNA? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No!” she said, still possessing Penelope, taking a step forward. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In chapter 4 we reminded ourselves of the many ways in which big domestic mammals were crucial to those human societies possessing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “We don’t need to control it if we give up the idea that we have to possess the Nut,” says Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z What had possessed her to accept the apprenticeship? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She'd never expressed any great interest in the thing but was chosen because, at the age of ten, she possessed what our dad decided were the most artistic fingers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He tried to make his face look old but had no idea which expression he possessed made him look the oldest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was now a real advantage in possessing a large brain and in communicating complex thoughts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She had just met a small girl who possessed, or so it seemed to her, quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “I did really well. I played better than I ever have in my life. It was like I was possessed.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the amendments to the state’s constitution, the punishment for possessing seditious writings, or for aiding and abetting a colored person, was left to the discretion of local authorities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z ‘Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In the darkness of the room she listened to her even breathing and knew right then and there that it didn’t matter what Clara’s reasons were for possessing Penelope. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There were seven or eight people on the island who possessed the right to give names. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole is a paradigm, a human institution possessed of a life of its own, self-regenerating, touched all around by human meddle but constantly improved, embellished by it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The men who were working along the rows felt possessed by a strange fascination, menaced by some invisible danger, and many succumbed to a terrible desire to weep. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He suggested that perhaps the situation had been mishandled, that perhaps I was not possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He set himself to texting and telephoning people, and he talked to everyone with an extreme gentleness Jule hadn’t known he possessed. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And godless though I am, the fact of being human, the fact of possessing the gift of study, and thus being remarkable among all the matter floating through the cosmos, still awes me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Dumbledore, who after all possessed no magical eye, did not see them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Believe that, too, for driver ants are possessed, collectively, of the size and influence of a Biblical plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Caleb, the owner of the Drift, possessed a notoriously sour disposition; Sam had a reputation as the barkeep who enjoyed conversation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Now what could have possessed Merlyn to send you to me?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I say to Tom as we head to football practice, “did you hear about that kid in Monroeville who says he was possessed by the devil?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z After having been possessed by an eidolon three days ago, he didn’t appreciate the feeling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I had to show the staff that I possessed native intelligence but not so great a one or of a certain kind that it impeded my sense of duty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came Pope Julius, and he found the Church powerful, possessing all of the Romagna, having destroyed the Roman barons, and having annihilated their factions by Alexander’s blows. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He does not possess the humility to admit his guilt, to try and atone for his crimes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z These are the qualities that welfare - to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt strange, possessed, or as if he were acting upon a stage in front of a crowd of people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “No, the great pity is that although Lyra possesses the alethiometer itself, there’s no means of reading it whatsoever,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They possessed the academic know-how, they possessed the technical and the scientific skills that could help to lead their mass of poor, black brothers out of our condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They possessed good natural climbing ability, and that weasel—what was his name? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Their faces possessed the power of evoking in me a million memories that I longed to forget, and instead of my leaving drawing me to them in communion, it had flung me forever beyond them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z By analyzing families that possessed intergenerational histories of mental illness, the study found striking evidence that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia shared a strong genetic link. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Because he possessed what seemed to be an unusually reliable memory, I was particularly interested to hear how his version of the events jibed with my own. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z |
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