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  • The more challenging and glorious unplug is seventeen hands high, about 1200 pounds, possesse ...

    Karen Stabiner: Unplugged, Saddled Up, Recharge: My Techno-Kingdom for a Horse 2009

  • The more challenging and glorious unplug is seventeen hands high, about 1200 pounds, possesse ...

    Karen Stabiner: Unplugged, Saddled Up, Recharge: My Techno-Kingdom for a Horse 2009

  • In this case there were so many warning signs, so much more blatant, that it might seem trivial to place any weight upon this one — except for the actions of the Group of 88, who went ahead and constructed a whole “metanarrative” on shaky foundations according to which young white men from well-off backgrounds automatically “hop[e] to consume something that they fe[el] that a black woman uniquely possesse[s]”.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Conservatives” and the Lacrosse Case 2007

  • Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one.

    Archive 2006-05-01 StyleyGeek 2006

  • These men also haue the Tartars rooted out, and doe possesse and inhabite their countrey, howbeit, those that remained are reduced into their bondage.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • And comming one morning (according to his injunction) to heare Masse, in the Gospell he observed these words; You shall receive an hundred for one, and so possesse eternall life; which saying, he kept perfectly in his memory: and as he was commanded, at dinner time, he came to the Inquisitor, finding him (among his fellowes) seated at the Table.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Then I besought him, that he would vochsafe to accept that small gifte at our hands, excusing my selfe that I was a Monke, and that it was against our profession to possesse gold, or siluer, or precious garments, and therefore that I had not any such thing to giue him, howbeit he should receiue some part of our victuals instead of a blessing.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • Lesca, thou knowest well enough, that the Oxe falleth not at the first blow of the Axel neither is the victory won, upon a silly and shallow adventure: Wherefore, I thinke it convenient, that once more thou shouldst make another tryall of him, who (in prejudice to me) standeth so strictly on his loyalty, and choosing such an houre as seemeth most commodious, soundly possesse him with my tormenting passions.

    The Decameron 2004

  • They are (quoth he) the soules of noble men which we do here feed, for the loue of God who gouerneth the world: and as a man was honorable or noble in this life, so his soule after death, entreth into the body of some excellent beast or other, but the soules of simple and rusticall people do possesse the bodies of more vile and brutish creatures.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Well, sentence passed against Melich, that Dauid being his elder brother should haue superioritie ouer him, and should quietly and peaceably possesse the portion of land granted vnto him by his father.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

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