As this interview will probably suggest to me more certain means of getting possession of these papers, I will not, as yet, acquaint you, Sir, with those that I had proposed to myself.
It is quite clear that Sir Francis Varney and his associates have some particular object in view in getting possession of the place.
No time, therefore, was to be lost in getting possession of the Isle aux Noix, which commanded the entrance to that river.
On getting possession of Stony Point, Wayne was to turn its guns upon Fort Lafayette and the shipping.
Immense regions were still claimed by both nations, and each was now eager to forestall the other by getting possession of them, and strengthening its claim by occupancy.
On the morning of the 31st, General Warren reported favorably to getting possession of the White Oak Road, and was directed to do so.
Before giving General Butler his instructions, I visited him at Fort Monroe, and in conversation pointed out the apparent importance ofgetting possession of Petersburg, and destroying railroad communication as far south as possible.
You make the consideration the full forty-two hundred and show, in your report, an expense of two hundred in getting possession.
Just now, he thinks it would have been better to have sold the note and mortgage to someone and let the buyer take the grief of getting possession.
The Russians in the course of the campaign of 1877 succeeded in successively capturing these important fortresses and in getting possession of nearly the whole of the districts inhabited by Armenians.
On the pretext of putting an end to this infamy, Barbarossa attacked the city of Tunis, and had no difficulty ingetting possession of it and expelling the contemptible Sultan.
The Ottoman troops at the neighbouring Tzympe, under Solyman, when this opportunity was afforded to them of getting possession of such an important fortress, determined to avail themselves of it.
They marched southwards with the object of getting possession of the Queen of Scotland who was imprisoned at Tutbury, but their design having been suspected Mary was removed suddenly to Coventry.
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