Lily had taken it, at first with the confidence of assured possessorship, then with gradually narrowing demands, till now she found herself actually struggling for a foothold on the broad space which had once seemed her own for the asking. ❋ Edith Wharton (1987)
One of us, at least, was stirred at Renard's calm assumption -- the assumption so common to artists, who, when they see a good thing at once count on its possessorship, as if the whole world, indeed, were eternally sitting, agape with impatience, awaiting the advent of some painter to sketch in its portrait. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
Archer was proud of the glances turned on her, and the simple joy of possessorship cleared away his underlying perplexities. ❋ Unknown (1920)
And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity. ❋ Unknown (1920)
And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity. ❋ Unknown (1920)
The thought flattered his sense of possessorship ... ❋ Unknown (1912)
Suddenly, at the sight, a rage of possessorship awoke in her. ❋ Unknown (1912)
It was she who must assume the air of success, and of rueful yet helpless possessorship. ❋ Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1904)
'Dear Gerald, how delightful!' said Lady Pickering, with, to Althea's consciousness, too much an air of possessorship. ❋ Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1904)
She did not know whether it was in pride of possessorship, or shame of it, or merely in helpless loyalty that, after a pause, she said: 'Perhaps I ought to have told you, Helen, that Franklin has wanted to marry me for fifteen years. ❋ Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1904)
So her possessorship of Keith was a thing which -- again in the dark and brooding hours of night -- sometimes made him writhe in an agony of shame. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
Where the wolf had stripped open a tender flank he began to eat, and as he ate he growled, so that warning of his possessorship reached the spruce top. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
It was the force which comes of mastery, of possessorship, of fighting grimly against odds. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
He had tingled then in the sheer joy of their thrill, but it was a different thrill that stirred him now -- an overwhelming emotion of possessorship. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
It was unconsciously, insidiously, that her ten years of happiness with Westall had developed another conception of the tie; a reversion, rather, to the old instinct of passionate dependency and possessorship that now made her blood revolt at the mere hint of change. ❋ Unknown (1902)
As the thought of Haskett receded, Waythorn felt himself yielding again to the joy of possessorship. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
