And possessing no hats was greatly in their favour.
Higher tradition relates, that this extraordinary-personage was a monk, who, possessing a greater knowledge in natural philosophy than could at that time be generally comprehended, was reputed a sorcerer.
He displayed a rare example, that the truest happiness consists in possessinglittle or nothing!
Though still possessing considerable portions of its former importance, yet, engrafted with modern additions to fit it for the county jail, it has little picturesque attraction.
Mr. Coxe as possessing a good collection of pictures.
It is late in the day to refer to Mr. Edward Lloyd as possessing the right to the position of our leading British tenor--indeed, it might be said to that of one of the first tenors in the world.
Quilly is more remarkable still, as possessing a tower containing marked vestiges of that earlier Romanesque style of which Normandy contains so much fewer examples than either England or Aquitaine.
A queer fellow, Spencer; I did not give him credit for possessing sincere feeling, except where he himself was concerned.
Possessing no sense of humor, which her husband and Kathleen had in abundance, she seriously objected to their poking fun at her beloved organization, the Sisters in Unity, of which she was a charter member.
Most of the commercial characters on the Island are English; and among them are some respectable long established houses, possessing considerable capitals: there are about twenty different firms, and as many families.
The music is very light and fairly melodious, but quite unambitious, and has been described by a French musical critic, very justly, as mediocre.
This number again is very easy to sing, and deserves much greater publicity.
This aspect of Bolshevism is exemplified by the Extraordinary Commission, a body practically independent of the Government, possessing its own regiments, who are better fed than the Red Army.
Whether such a state of opinion grows up or not depends mainly upon the stubbornness or conciliatoriness of the possessing classes, and, conversely, upon the moderation or violence of those who desire fundamental economic change.
We soon discovered that Miss Anderson had been coached for Juliet without possessing on her part the most distant conception of the character--or capacity to render it, had she the information.
That she has succeeded in inspiring the freshness and glow of life into plays, some of which, at least, were supposed to be consigned almost to the limbo of disused stage properties, stamps her as possessing genuine histrionic power.
Jacamaralcyon tridactyla differs from all the rest in possessing but three toes (as its name indicates), on each foot, the hallux being deficient.
Between the Contra Costa Range and the sea is a winterless strip, possessing for table vegetables and flowers the finest soil and climate in the world.
The fact of possessing one renders those even who are dear to you very terrible at times.
Genesis is honest to the core, and professes to be no more than it is, a repository of venerable traditions of unknown origin, claiming no scientific authority and possessing none.
Do you know of any other case of an archipelago, with the separate islands possessing distinct representative species?
I do not know whether to congratulate you on it, but I am sure I may the Colony, on possessing your zeal and energy.
But from not having had any regular practice in dissection, and from possessingonly a wretched microscope, my attempts were very poor.
The work of Covenanting is itself a lofty spiritual exercise, and requires a people possessing much of the Spirit of the living God.
These rooms are many in number, and curiously labyrinthine in construction, and although not possessing attraction enough to be shown to the general visitor, are nevertheless among the most interesting in the mansion.
To these are attached the younger Autolemures, or Stenopida, with thirty-six teeth, they thus possessing already the same dentition as the Platyrrhinae.
If he then made few enemies, his conversation and pursuits were little calculated to enlarge his social acquaintance, and may even have early inspired a belief in his possessing equal eccentricity and enthusiasm.
Although rather isolated in position, it must have been a place possessing considerable internal comfort.
Did not this man pass amongst the inhabitants of the tapis-franc as possessing some good points among his many bad ones?
In other words, a force possessingonly ten howitzers ought to have at least twice the reserves of a force possessing a hundred howitzers.
With the right of possessing forts and garrisons in distant and barbarous countries, is necessarily connected the right of making peace and war in those countries.
A beautiful new and very distinct species of Genetyllis, possessing altogether the habit of a Cape Diosma, the heath-like branches being terminated by clusters of bright pink and white flowers.
There remain English and French, and these are undoubtedly the two natural languages most often put forward--even outside England and France--as possessing the best claims for adoption as auxiliary international mediums of communication.
The expedition was poor in cavalry, possessing only four horses whose names were Beraja, Al-Bahrmi, Yasum and Sail.
Could this supernatural language come from Mohammad, known to be completely illiterate and possessing no other knowledge than that due to nature and intuition?
Ayishah's camel, possessing a good turn of speed and lightly burdened, Mohammad, after having tried to explain these facts to its fair rider, gave orders to change the loads of the two animals.
I feel all the importance of your possessing some better means of identifying her than I can give you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "possessing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
