Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I had scant luggage to take with me to London, for little of the little I possessed was adapted to my new station. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
My mother was the most beautiful woman, and possessed the finest and most benevolent countenance, I have ever seen in my whole life. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It was extremely difficult, I heard, to make out what he owed, or what he had paid, or of what he died possessed. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
What stores of knowledge they possessed! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
At that time he was in the prime of life, being less than fifty years of age, and possessed an admirable physique, promising long life. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
She only felt in his embrace a dear assurance that while he possessed her, he would not despair. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
He himself married a daughter of Darius, though already he possessed an Asiatic wife in Roxana, the daughter of the king of Samarkand. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
We also approve of one, who is possessed of qualities, that are immediately agreeable to himself; though they be of no service to any mortal. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
No individual, perhaps, ever possessed a juster understanding, or was so seldom obstructed in the use of it by indolence, enthusiasm, or authority. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
And he was expressionless, neutralised, possessed by her as if it were his fate, without question. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
If these were some of the inconveniences of Mr. Skimpole's childhood, it assuredly possessed its advantages too. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
In 1904 the navy of the United States possessed eight Holland boats and there were also a number of them in the British navy. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
All the jewellers consulted, at once confirmed the Colonel's assertion that he possessed one of the largest diamonds in the world. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
These members I conceive and believe him to be possessed of. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
She told me, that that same evening William had teazed her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
His wife's tigerish jealousy came to my rescue and forced his attention away from me the moment he possessed himself of my hand. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
Each stone deity was possessed by sacred gladness, and the eternal fruition of love. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
The invention of the phonograph has brought music to thousands of homes possessed of neither wealth nor skill. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
The devil, that possessed her race with obstinacy, has concentrated its full force in her single person! 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
But my standing possessed of only three-halfpence in the world (and I am sure I wonder how they came to be left in my pocket on a Saturday night! 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
I never possessed a really wise friend, to set me right, advise or admonish me. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.