To possess himself of the small estate of these youths, Whiting had recourse to a most diabolical plan.
It appeared that the ungrateful villain had long determined upon murdering his employer, in order to possess himself of the whole of his valuable property.
But, in the evening, he received advice that Heraclides with his fleet was on his way to Syracuse, with the purpose to possess himself of the city and keep him and his army out.
In the year 463, Yuryaku, desiring to possess himself of the wife of a high official, Tasa, sent him to be governor of Mimana, and in his absence debauched the lady.
Rhinegold Motive followed by Walhalla Motive, for it is through the power gained by the Rhinegold that Alberich hopes to possess himself of Walhalla.
Long he has planned to possess himselfof the ring fashioned of Rhinegold.
Mime is seeking to weld the pieces of Siegmund's sword (Nothung or Needful) in order that Siegfried may slay Fafner, Mime hoping then to kill the youth and to possess himself of the treasure.
He married Burke's widow, and put away his own lawful wife; from which it may be concluded that he had avenged the crime either from love of this woman, or from a desire to possess himself of her husband's property.
He took care to possess himself of them for a year before he would consent to name a successor to the deceased prelate.
Fully expecting that Carlo Magno would try to possess himselfof it, he hastily bent down to regain it.
As riches too generally prevail against right, Amu'lius made use of his wealth to supplant his brother, and soon found means to possess himself of the kingdom.
To return to Dibbledean, and, by the legal help of Mr. Tatt, to possess himself of any fragments of evidence which Joanna Grice might have left behind her in writing?
It stated that the Shah had no desire to possess himself of Herat; he only claimed that his sovereignty should be acknowledged.
Determined to possess himself of the Koh-i-noor, he now resorted to other measures to extort it from the luckless owner.
The Shah himself, though robbed of all his jewels, had a lakh of rupees remaining at Lahore, but as soon as he began to possess himself of it, the Maharajah stretched out his hand, and swept it into his own treasury.
Julius, bent now on Cesare's ruin, desired to possess himself of this man in the hope of being able to put him upon his trial under charges which should reflect discredit upon Cesare.
Blessington, as he stooped to possess himself of the prize; "I knew the miniature would be found to contain some intelligence from our friends.
The story is founded solely on the artifice of Ponteac topossess himself of those two last British forts.
Arbaces himself now resolved to exert all his arts to possess himself of that treasure he so burningly coveted.
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