in one's power
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One should, when one is dying, preserve one's life by any means in one's power without judging of their character.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
To hold in one’s power, to rule, govern.Mektancah, n.
From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton
I believe there is hardly a torment equal to that of being ardently drawn to retirement, and not having it in one's power to be retired.
From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Still, one oughtn't, if possible, to give way to these impulses: one ought to do all that's in one's power to prevent such a miserable termination to one's divinely allotted existence.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
I don't agree with you," said a gentleman whom I did not know; "impatience sometimes seizes one towards the end of an undertaking, and one employs the readiest means then in one's power.
From Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici by Various
