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Striking as this train may unfold itself in her character, and as pre-eminent as it may stand among the fair display of her other qualities, yet there is another, which struggles into existence, and adds an additional luster to what she already possesses. [5]
All the essentials of a great writer Mr. Motley eminently possesses. [6]
From the deep inward moan which follows pressure on the great nerves of right, to the sharp cry as the filaments of taste are struck with a crashing sweep, is a range which no other instrument possesses. [6]
For a divine instinct, such as drives the goose southward and the poet heavenward, is a hard thing to manage, and proves too strong for many whom it possesses. [6]
So that she had no compunction in drawing the young money-master to her side, and keeping him there by such arts as such a woman possesses. [11]

More example sentences with the word possesses in them

After the final war of 1815 Alexander possesses all possible power. [2]
She often told us how highly French was valued in the capital, and we must believe that the language possesses an imperishable charm for Germans when we remember that this was the case so shortly after the glorious uprising against the terrible despotism of France. [10]
This obliges us to admit the truth of the unpalatable proposition just mentioned above--that, in disputed matters political and religious, one man's opinion is worth no more than his peer's, and hence it followers that no man's opinion possesses any real value. [5]
This obliges us to admit the truth of the unpalatable proposition just mentioned above--that in disputed matters political and religious one man's opinion is worth no more than his peer's, and hence it follows that no man's opinion possesses any real value. [5]
I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne. [4]
As man possesses the same senses as the lower animals, his fundamental intuitions must be the same. [1]
It possesses essentially the same character to the north, although the shore is occasionally higher and bolder, as at the picturesque promontory of Magnolia, and Cape Ann exhibits more of the hotel and popular life. [4]
A hieroglyph," said the Rhetor, "is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol. [2]
Each man possesses the hidden germ in his own heart. [10]
So Smyrna really still possesses her crown of life, in a business point of view. [5]
Nor will this 'something' always come at my bidding, while it often possesses me when I least expect it. [10]
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze. [5]
How much better reason he had to use the privilege in which man possesses an advantage over the immortals, of putting himself to death with his own hand when he deems the fitting time has come! [10]
In Europeans the power differs greatly in different individuals, as I am assured by an eminent naturalist who possesses this sense highly developed, and who has attended to the subject. [1]
Once the Spirit possesses us truly, we are no longer troubled and confused by texts. [9]
The man who possesses that kingdom need not envy the very gods themselves. [10]
The man who possesses such a treasure as I have in thee, will guard it carefully, but never care to seek for others which, by its side, can only show their miserable poverty. [10]
He who already possesses one of ten solidi which are to be divided, ought really to desire only nine, and therefore would be poorer by a wish than another who has none. [10]
Phanes can betray our land to any foreign enemy; he is as intimately acquainted with it as we are; and beside this, he possesses a secret, the knowledge of which would convert our most powerful ally into a most formidable enemy. [10]
If the source of power lies neither in the physical nor in the moral qualities of him who possesses it, it must evidently be looked for elsewhere--in the relation to the people of the man who wields the power. [2]
But the suffering of a person whom we have once loved possesses a reconciling power, and he who usually forgot no insult, even after the lapse of years, was again disposed to forgive her, and reverted to the wish to continue to enjoy her singing. [10]
True, he knows not how to win love easily, but he possesses other means of maintaining what is his and still awaits him in the future. [10]
He hasn't any more of an idea of what he possesses by legal right than the man I discovered driving in a cart one of the best hunters I ever had in my stables. [9]
Every marmoset, American monkey, Old World monkey, baboon or manlike ape, on the contrary, has its cerebellum entirely hidden, posteriorly, by the cerebral lobes, and possesses a large posterior cornu with a well-developed hippocampus minor. [1]
Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. [2]
What he possesses makes me less anxious, than what he lacks. [10]
The only value it possesses, for even a moment, is the spiritual value back of it: remove that end and it is at once worthless--like the hat. [5]
I have uttered in the language of poetry, when my heart impelled me, that for which dry prose possesses no power of expression. [10]
The memorable words I have quoted give to this ruined city about all the interest it possesses to people of the present day. [5]
Her composure was gone, though she was very quiet, and she had that look of a vital absorption which possesses human beings in crises of their lives. [11]
How are you going to make that out, when the lower animals have no mental quality but instinct, while man possesses reason? [5]
In order to force the sale of Mrs Eddy's Bible-Annex, no healer, Metaphysical-College-bred or other, is allowed to practice the game unless he possesses a copy of that book. [5]
Woman, particularly, possesses for instance a kind of submarine bell; and, if she listens, she can at times hear it tinkling faintly. [9]
Sydney, though well deserving the character it bears of its kindly treatment of strangers, possesses a little formality and reserve. [5]
I believe that Congress possesses the constitutional power to abolish it. [7]
It was good casual art, still it showed that he possesses a certain quality of perception. [5]
He is, at best, only a mushroom growth of the recent period (came in, probably, with the general raft of mammalian fauna); but he possesses yet some rudimentary traits that may be studied. [4]
The degree of beauty Althea possesses would entirely satisfy me for the Arachne. [10]
It has been asserted that the ear of man alone possesses a lobule; but "a rudiment of it is found in the gorilla" (31. [1]
If she had as many teeth as she possesses vices, she might be happy; yet one admirable quality mingles with the evil traits in her character. [10]
After examining Cychrus, and reading what Westring has written about this beetle, it seems very doubtful whether it possesses any true rasp, though it has the power of emitting a sound. [1]
The investigation possesses, also, some independent interest, as an attempt to see how far the study of the lower animals throws light on one of the highest psychical faculties of man. [1]
Do not be alarmed, worthy sir, but the dish in question is cabbage with sausages--a mess which, like the soul of an Egyptian, possesses at the instant of resurrection, nobler qualities than when it first sees the light. [10]
True, French, in addition to its melody and ambiguity, possesses more subtle turns and apt phrases than most other languages; and even the most German of Germans, our Bismarck, must recognize the fitness of its phrases, because he likes to avail himself of them. [10]
P. hardwickii possesses a peculiar top-knot, which is also somewhat like that of the Java peacock. [1]

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