Mother Lhulier took legal steps to gain possession of the property, but grave difficulties, which perhaps had not been foreseen, arose.
She determined to gain possession of one of these jewels, that she might send it to Richelieu, who would be at no loss to draw his own conclusions.
To me, this seems by far the most likely theory, especially as he had expressed a fear that his enemies sought to gain possession of it.
He wished either to profit by the fact that you could not afford to allow the truth to be known that you were the wife of a groom, or else his intention was to gain possession of your money at your father's death.
To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way.
There are indeed few animals who possess so many tricks of all kinds to gain possession of their prey.
These highway robbers of the air often unite to gain possession of a prey already taken and killed, and ready to be eaten.
The inhabitants of the banks speculate on the love of these fish for their offspring togain possession of them.
I think we deserve whatever we can get out of that trading-post, seeing how hard we have worked to gain possession of our own.
The Indians had three canoes secreted in the bushes and they were anxious to gain possession of the craft.
The Indians had gone off to a man, and now, when he felt safe for the time being, Henry was sorry that he had not stopped long enough to gain possession of his gun.
I and several other soldiers were at this time up to our middles in the water, engaging the enemy in defence of a brigantine which had run aground, and of which the enemy were endeavouring to gain possession.
Wishing togain possession of the vessel, Carvajal concealed twenty musqueteers near the coast, and made the appointed signal.
It seemed to him, then, that if he undertook to gain possession of the English throne at all, he must rely entirely on the force which he could take with him from Normandy.
This had been the object of the attack--to gain possession of her.
I thought little about what he said at the time, but I believe now one of his main objects was togain possession of this girl.
You deliberately ruined and robbed Beaucaire, in order to gain possession of these two girls.
As a prelude to the second assault, Albuquerque sent Antonio de Abren in a vessel well manned to gain possession of the bridge.
The enemy followed up the runaways, and 5000 of them under Mojate Khan endeavoured to gain possession of the bastion of St Thomas, but were bravely repulsed by Luis de Sousa.
Yet the latter is fully determined to undermine their independence as social units, in order to gain possession of their means of production and labour power and to convert them into commodity buyers.
It is the aim of capitalism, however, to gain possession of just these spheres of production, and to destroy in the process the main factor which makes for its own prosperity.
European capital, British capital in particular, had already at an early date attempted to gain possession of this area which marches with the ancient trade route between Europe and Asia.
The guards try not only to prevent the passage of the ball around the circle or its reaching their opponents' captain, but also to gain possession of the ball and throw it over to the opposite side to their own basemen and captain.
He tosses the ball, and the guards from both sides try to gain possession of it.
Nevertheless, attempts were not wanting on their part to gain possession of the east side of Jordan.
For my part, I have the satisfaction of knowing that Chaloner will never own this heap of stones, though the rebels seek to gain possession of the castle; but that is no reason why I should like to take life heedlessly.
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