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1  It will correct you of feigning more valour than you possess.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  And, truly, it appeared as if the lad were possessed of something diabolical at that period.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Still, I thought I could detect in his physiognomy a mind owning better qualities than his father ever possessed.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  She was at that time a charming young lady of eighteen; infantile in manners, though possessed of keen wit, keen feelings, and a keen temper, too, if irritated.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII