A strange serenity took possession of my soul, and all that had polluted or degraded it in the lower life seemed to fall away from it like the shadow of an evil dream.
As the eerie gloaming died in the west, and thin grey mists began to veil the outlandish scene, we realised to the full that we were all alone and friendless in an unknown world, and a deep sentiment of exile took possession of our souls.
A single servant who was in possession of the secret was killed by the escort on the journey, and his face so disfigured by dagger thrusts that he could not be recognised.
I saw a pair of these which had been actually used for this purpose in the possession of M.
But when he found himself face to face with his customer, a new feeling suddenly took possession of him.
A long, uninhabited cabin, a score or so of yards from the mountain road, had been roughly patched up and taken possession of by them.
Talbot's Cross-roads felt that it had vicariously come into the possession of wealth and dignity of position.
One of the facts which had always been counted as an added dignity to the De Willoughbys had been their well-known possession of property in land.
In an hour from the time they had taken possession of their quarters, they were sitting at a little table before an open window, making a breakfast of coffee and eggs.
When she recovered it, she scrambled up, holding her new possessionin one arm and clung with the other around Tom's neck.
She wore none of them; her father took possession of them, with the remark, 'It would be unbecoming for a single girl to display these gewgaws upon her neck and arms.
Whatever else our coming into possession of wealth did for us, it did not improve my mother's health.
I should really by this time have been in possession of the grand secret.
Or are the two heroes, the one a counterpart of the other, contesting for the possession of a goddess?
It is now pretty well agreed, however, that the chief advantage which mankind has over the brutes is in the possession of speech by which he can communicate his ideas.
Robbery and gift are the most naïve forms of transfer of possession, and under primitive conditions change of possession seldom takes place without a struggle.
Thus not merely the possession of a common language but the wide extension of the opportunities for education become conditions of Americanization.
The individual units, as a result of intimate association, interpenetrate, so to speak, and come in this way into possession of a common experience and a common tradition.
No doubt it is at times allowable to talk of a prevalent belief or opinion as "being in the air," by which expression is meant that a particular way of looking at things has become the common possession of all the world.
The black rat was in possession of many European towns before the brown rat crossed the Volga in 1727; whenever the brown rat arrived, the black rat had to go to the wall.
They were then imitated by others and thus became the common and permanent possession of the group.
These convictions, before they become the possession of our personal consciousness, may conceal themselves awhile in the so-called subconsciousness.
Doubtless, posterity, in full possession of the facts, will be disposed to let the judgment stand.
Among the interesting "documentary" proofs of this service (now in possession of the family) is a portrait of the old campaigner in his French uniform.
It would be folly to affirm, says the anonymous English writer who anticipated in certain aspects the theories of Du Chaillu, that the possession of Norman and Danish blood "always implies energy and intellect; and Saxon descent, the reverse.
The vast migratory columns of the former take possession of Central Europe.
It was never thus taken possession of by the Normans.
But the idea had taken possession of the mind of Very Rev.
According to usage he soon after visited Rome and took possession of the church from which he derived his title.
They take possession of the goods of the clergy because they deny that the Church can hold property.
In this condition he lingered, sinking by a slow and gradual decline, but preserving his serenity and the full possession of his mental faculties.
Now Hamilcar determined, by placating, and by bribes, and if necessary by force, to take possession of the Peninsula for his own purposes, and to make of the people a Punic nation under the complete dominion of Carthage.
On condition of military service they had undisputed possession of their territory, with their own king, laws, and customs, but were nominally subjects of the Roman Emperor, Honorius.
He was defeated in the two objects dearest to his heart: the power to bequeath this imperial possession to Philip, and the destruction of Protestantism.
Learning, literature, refinements of luxury and of art had taken possession of the land, which seemed given up to the muses.
Pope was Antichrist,[134] took more and more possessionof him.
We are in possession of statements on this subject made by Eberlin, Hessus and Cordus.
Finally, the two churches were closely watched for some while after, “lest something might still be preserved in them, and to prevent such being taken possession of by the clergy.
He has no power to run to one or the other of the two riders and offer himself to him, but the riders fight to obtain possession of the animal.
A kind of fever had taken possession of him, a fever of unrest and discontent with himself and all things.
But they were nowhere in sight, and their dusky and palm-sheltered corner was in possession of Mrs. Stanislaw, who instantly pounced on April with a request for her autograph.
They took possession of a group of chairs that did not belong to them, and scattered their possessions upon the deck.
The ticket for her first-class stateroom she cheerfully handed over to April, in exchange for one which gave possession of a berth in a cheaper cabin to be shared with another woman.
For here is another eternal truth, that all men are one in pride of possession of that which excites envy and admiration in other men.
As if in answer to the gloomy query, the lights were once more switched out, and a strange vapoury greyness took possession of the ship.
Certainly, he had ascertained that she was a pretty woman before he took possession of his chair, but that was merely instinct, the fulfilling of a human law.
In 1529 he was charged with holding Protestant views and further with the unlawful possession of Luther's books and other heretical works.
The envoys had been sent down to recover some Waikato war-flags which were in the possession of the Taranaki Hauhaus.
The picture of the fight at Moturoa in 1868 is from a black-and-white sketch by a soldier-artist who took part in the engagement; the original was in the possession of the late Dr.
But too frequently the passions are the only guide, and these stimulate to bewilder: they exhibit pleasing and attractive imagery, and then the possession destroys the bliss.
They were strictly forbid to use wine, or even to have in their possession the key of any place where it was kept.
When this principle obtains possession of the breast, it destroys the health and spirits: the streams which gladden the heart become corrupted, and productive of rage and melancholy.
I recovered self-possession in a jiffy and--to make amends for whatever bad form there might have been in my recent exhibition of excitement--turned round majestically and surveyed the situation with lordly composure.
We took away the papers and valuables of the dead, took possession of the eatable and drinkable stores to be found in the saddle bags attached to the horses and, when the grave was ready, we began to place the dead bodies in it.
Possession is nine points of the law, and the fellow hasn't been here to claim it.
But this is nothing in comparison with the plans laid for getting possessionof the iron-fields of Normandy and a certain part of the French Channel coast.
Vicht and Kurz had become all-powerful here, and would have turned the principality into a German possession if they'd had the chance.
He would have given them all to be free at this moment from the dread which had once again taken possession of his breast.
It is most probable these rascals have obtained possession of a cheque which was in a pocket-book I lost, and your informant, whoever it may be, has overheard their conversation about that.
The moment he had the notes in his possession he walked as fast as he could to the Bank of England, and there obtained gold for them.
For the first time in his life his self-possession deserted him.
He must marry the lady to whom they were addressed, and thus make them his property again, unless--well, unless he could get possession of the poems without taking possession of the owner.
Mr. Brooks, on the contrary, was acquainted with several gentleman who in the course of their business frequently came into possession of blank cheques.
I have in my possession your written confession of the murder of your cousin, signed by you.
Of course,' said the Inspector, 'we could charge you with being in possession of the Government clothing, you know.
Ambition had taken possession of Gurth Egerton and there was room for nothing else.
The enemy was in possession of this road, and opposed our passage.
I promise you that paper will be in your possession again by to-morrow morning.
How was it that her hand had not already showed in this attempt upon the Wop, since she seemed to have always in her possession the details of the Rat's schemes?
With this in your possession at last you were absolutely secure, even in the very improbable event of anything ever being done by the police.
Peters might have been the temporary custodian, in whole or in part, of the proceeds of the robbery, or he might only have been in possession of his share.
If he stood aside with the foreknowledge of crime in his possession he was as guilty as this Mole.
In some way, unknown to her, he must have come into possession of that evidence, or in some way have rendered abortive the means by which, in event of her disappearance, it would be brought to light.
They were the Rat's secrets; and for the moment he was the Rat, and self-preservation made the possession of those secrets vitally essential to him.
If he did, he could not sit idly by and, in the possession of the details of some purposed crime, permit that crime to be enacted!
Jackson's acts in that back passageway, Jackson's possession of a revolver, and Jackson's words at the end stamped the footman irrevocably as being one of the men in the murder plot.
Has the beautiful stranger taken complete possession of you?
Every member of the Cabinet and the General of the Army have been, or are about to be, killed; the government itself is at a standstill; and the lately discomfited rebels are soon to be in possession of the Capital.
Hurrying to his lodgings he opened the envelope, read the letter, and, fearing to be compromised by the possession of such a document, burnt it up.
When the counsel called for that record, I sent the afternoon of that day to the Judge-Advocate-General, in whose possession these records are.
The room had not been otherwise occupied--Atzerodt, after taking possession of it, having mysteriously disappeared.
If this decisive information was in the possession of Judge Bingham at so early a date as "soon after the execution," why had he not communicated it to his distressed partner while Stanton and Seward lived?
The original of that is now in his possession and in the hand-writing of Hon.
A similar party took possession of the cellar of M.
The form of Stella took possession of every vacant corner of the cavity, and by degrees displaced that of Marionetta from many of the outworks of the citadel; though the latter still held possession of the keep.
The devil has come among us, and has begun by takingpossession of all the cleverest fellows.
Drummond he succeeded as next Officer in the Command of the George and took possession of the Prizes Papers and that he hath exhibited the same all into Court without addition, subduction or Embezilment to his knowledge.
As this [h]as been fully proved in Court that the time the Ennemy [h]as had her in possession is above 96 hours I dont doubt but the one half free of all Charges will be allotted Us for Salvage.
Effectually in my Possession and were not Delivered me in the Presence of a Notary Publick that he might give faith thereof, I Confess myself to be contented, Satisfied and to have my intire Satisfaction, reced.
Norton, and convey'd to Boston, The Captain of the Privateer the Revenge will be well entitled to Salvage for the Brigantine and her cargo, and the said vessel having been 96 Hours in possession of the Spaniards, the Revenge Privatr.
Captain Potter brought home from Oyapoc is still in the possession of descendants of his family.
To all appearance a terrible monster had takenpossession of the air!
They had come into possessionof a kite which had been described to them as marvelous, and they got their mother's permission to take the little Chinaman to Franklin Park to see them fly it for the first time.
By means of a perverted Christianity, and the possession of the ruby collar which for centuries has been the Kaffir fetish, he organizes the natives of Southern Africa into a great army.
Brother Have so unlawfully Got Possession Of must Come Back to Them Whose Due It is w^h Is myself as will be Soon prov^d.
Yet, is it because it has become unimportant, on account of their being in possession of other evidence?
Quirk, Gammon, and Snap, within two months of Titmouse's being put into possession of the rents and profits of the estate in question.
Quirk, Gammon, and Snap using their best exertions to put him in possessionof the estate, &c.
To know for certain that the King, who had extended indulgence to him once, was in possession of this new accusation, and perhaps believed it, that was bad enough.
I kept no count of time, I gave no heed to what passed round me; but I went through the routine of my miserable life, happy as the slave that, rich in the possession of some beneficent drug, defies the pains of labour and the lash.
