"Unpossessed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... correspondents in almost every port. They address their vessels to these correspondents, who are found to take better care of their interests, and to obtain more effectually the protection of the laws of the country for them, than the consul of their nation can. He is generally a foreigner, unpossessed of the little details of knowledge of greatest use to them. He makes national questions of all the difficulties which arise; the correspondent prevents them. We carry on commerce with good success in all parts of the world; yet we have not a consul in a single ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... N. exemption; absence &c. 187; exception, immunity, privilege, release. V. not have &c. 777; be without &c. adj.; excuse. Adj. exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of[obs3], unblest with[obs3]; immune from. not having &c. 777; unpossessed[obs3]; untenanted &c. (vacant) 187; without an owner. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... to thus dictate To ye? And what know I of all the things Which influence your Ministers of State, That I should utter forth these murmurings? By greed and selfish motives unpossessed, They, in their wisdom, must do ...
— The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic • Wilfred S. Skeats |
