Thesaurus / self-possession

self-possession

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Within the past thirty years civilization has rapidly taken possession of this lovely region.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

The last-named building remained in the possession of the Unitarians until 1861, when it was sold to the Roman Catholics.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.

The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.

These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985