Several armed posses were still searching in the vicinity of Oakdale, and the surrounding country and towns had been warned by telephoning, which made it seem most improbable that the associates of the captured burglar could escape.
I’ll guarantee that the posses searching for them are rushing hither and thither without rhyme, reason or system.
He used to say to Amalek: "My son, dost thou indeed know who will posses this world and the future world?
He should have said to him: "My son, Israel will posses this world as well as the future world; dig wells then for their use and build road for them, so that thou mayest be judged worthy to share in the future world.
He sent two posses of twenty men each north and northwest.
The fact that he had not seen any members of the posses which were scouring the hills, he accredited to ignorance on their part of the fact that he had been at the Mallory ranch the night before and had gone into town.
Looking backward and downward, he could see the posses gathering in the street of the mine village.
But I aim to stop any posses from botherin' around your place.
He had evaded posses before--posses composed of trained men who were accustomed to take the man trail.
Sautee added to the excitement by quoting rewards at random, and the forming of two posses to comb the trails to the mine and beyond was under way at once.
Several posses have already started after him, and sheriffs all through northern New England are being notified.
She would be working toward Ruggam, while the rest of the posses were trailing him.
The gigantic Orosphaerida, which also in part posses a simple lattice-sphere, differ from the Castanellida in the absence of the peculiar shell-mouth.
In Circoporus the capsule seems toposses six and in Circospathis nine secondary openings, and therefore there is some probability that each circle of pores on the base of a radial spine corresponds to a secondary opening of the capsule.
But they could not be sure that Sweeney or some one of theposses sent out by the railroad was not close at hand.
The Rutherfords and their friends were already combing the hills for the lost girl, but the owner of the horse ranch wanted Sheriff Sweeney to send out posses as a border patrol.
The spoken word had located him in the wild canyons of Sonoma Mountain and fringed the mountain with posses of peace-officers and detachments of armed farmers.
Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Because no posses from here went south so far, and because if anybody else but Bill had caught him, he'd either have been killed outright or brought into Dorothy or Marquis, and there'd have been a big time.
You'll have to call off the posses that are out after me.
Yes, Tip, and on account of the quirt and the hatband there's a warrant issued for you for the murder, and two posses are out looking for you.
The Miniature" posses the captivating elegance of Voiture.
It does not 'posses us like a passion'--it steals upon us like a spell.
To abound in, to possesin such abundance as to be characterized by.
Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation.
Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real.
A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreignÐborn resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen.
The girl drank from the flask and returned it: "If there areposses out won't they watch the water-holes?
The posses were speeding back and forth all night long and the excitement attending their comings and goings lasted into Monday.
The fact that all of us were liable to the visits of posses when least expected gave us one interest in common, the only one we ever did have, although we were thrown together more or less through my friendship with Frank James.
A large reward had been offered for the capture of those Indian desperadoes and of the several posses that had been sent out Captain Donnelley and his brave band were the only "lucky devils," and escaped with their scalps.
Several white men were killed, and it was Captain Donnelley who was selected to head one of the posses and risk the brunt of the battle.
On the second night after the hold-up, while posses were scouring the country in every direction, Jim and I were eating supper in the second story of a friend's house in the town where the alarm started from.
Most of his posses were recruited from among the small ranchers and cow boys of the lower Pecos.
Dalton, better known as Bob Dalton, served on the posses of his brothers, and soon learned what it was to stand up and shoot while being shot at.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
