CLEOPATRA. You seem grieved (And therein you are kind) that Caesar first Enjoyed my love, though you deserved it better: I grieve for that, my lord, much more than you; For, had I first been yours, it would have saved My second choice: I never had been his, And ne'er had been but yours. But Caesar first, You say, possessed my love. Not so, my lord: He first possessed my person; you, my love: Caesar loved me; but I loved Antony. If I endured him after, 'twas because I judged it due to the first name of men; And, half constrained, I gave, as to a tyrant, What he would take by force.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
I should say, from what I heard in America, that Edwin Forrest was the Modena of America. The memory of that actor still lives, for no one has possessed equally the power to give expression to the passions, and to fruitful and burning imagery, in addition to which he possessed astonishing power of voice. Almost contemporaneously a number of most estimable actors have laid claim to his mantle; but above them all Edwin Booth soared as an eagle.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
For several days he allowed Jonathan to visit the Bradley farm alone, saying that it must be so on Ruth's account. Her love, he declared, must give her the fine instinct which only their mother had ever possessed, and he must allow it time to be confirmed. Jonathan, however, insisted that Ruth already possessed it; that she was beginning to wonder at his absence, and to fear that she would not be entirely welcome to the home which must always be equally his.英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
Dinnelo, s. A fool, one possessed by the devil. Diniele (of the devil); louat diniele (possessed by the devil).英文原著 · 《Gypsy Dictionary》
The bear was great in war, because before the horse came, he would sometimes charge the camps and kill or wound many people. Al- though many arrows were sent into his huge carcass, he seldom died. Hence the Indian was sure that the bear could heal his wounds. That the bear possessed a great knowledge of roots and berries, the Indian knew, for he often saw him digging the one and stripping the oth- ers from the bushes. The buffalo, the beaver, the wolf, and the eagle--each possessed strange powers that commanded the Indian's admira- tion and respect, as did many other things in creation.英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
From stem to stern silence possessed the vessel--as silence possessed the sea.英文原著 · 《Miss or Mrs》
We both are possessed of and by a sort of monster.美剧 · 《Billions》
And what possessed Susan? "Do you have any English blood?" - Really! - She speaks without thinking.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》