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Example sentences for "still possess"

  • We still possess a number of laws issued by this Frankish king for the promotion of education.

  • We still possess a Greek translation of his interesting log book.

  • We still possess forty-four of his odes, which were written in honor of victorious athletes at the Olympian and other national games.

  • My dear daughter is the only thing of value which I still possess.

  • We read in the fragments we still possess how, on the arid rock of Iona, Columba remembered his former residence at Derry, with its woods of oaks and the pure waters of its loughs.

  • We still possess some of those manuscripts of the sixth and following centuries, and none more beautiful or correct can be found among those left by the English, French, or Italian monastic institutions of the periods mentioned.

  • Because we still possess so large a number of his works, the extent of the material at hand is proportionately greater; unfortunately, however, I cannot give to Aristotle the amount of attention that he deserves.

  • His first essay was a treatise on the causes of the decay of eloquence, [9] and the last (which we still possess) a work in twelve books on the complete training of an orator.

  • We still possess an account of the voyages which were made successively into Palestine by a prince of Radziwil, a duke of Bavaria, a duke of Austria, and three electors of Saxony, among whom was he who was the protector of Luther.

  • His letter, which we still possess, presents a complete treatise of the philosophy and the theology of the time.

  • I still possess a pictured tile from a chimney-piece of this old mansion.

  • He sent my brother a copy of the first edition of his "Leaves of Grass," with his autograph, which I still possess.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black dress; equal amount; ever more; kill their; still alive; still continues; still existing; still future; still held; still keeping; still known; still larger; still less; still looking; still more; still others; still remained; still standing; still staring; still think; still very; still visible; still water; thing before; when time; years earlier