possess
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Possess any soldier; knock over any item on the desk; and figure out the puzzles on your own.
From Forbes • Oct. 9, 2013
Possess yourself therefore of any cheap work on botany containing outline plates of leaves and flowers, it does not matter whether bad or good: Baxter's British Flowering Plants is quite good enough.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John
Possess a singular charm, due to their expository character, to the labour expended upon them by a master-mind, and to the writer's felicitous style....
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
Possess yourself with their spirit: and work yourself into a belief that your picture is to be seen and criticised by them, when completed.
From The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. by Willson, Harry
Possess this all-consuming love and preaching will be as "a song of the Well-Beloved!"
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)
Vocabulary lists containing possess
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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The New SAT: The Language of the Test
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