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"Possessive" Quotes from Famous Books

... wife (and the possessive pronoun casts about her an atmosphere of importance) has been made uncomfortable, and he is up in arms. His and no one's else is the right to criticise Mary. What business have these people to interfere? He immediately becomes his wife's most ardent ...

— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

... same—as though light shone through alabaster—and the sweetness of the deep-set eyes. Moreover she had produced much the same effect on the bystander, as of a child of nature, a creature of impulse and passion—passion, clinging and self-devoted, not fierce and possessive—through all the more superficial suggestions of reticence and self-control. 'This little creature is only at the beginning of her life'—he thought, with a kind of pity for her very softness and exquisiteness. 'What the deuce will she have made of it, by the end? Why should ...

— Missing • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... and his possessive instinct had more or less righted things; and her nearness, in the rose-scented dark, rekindled his fervour ...

— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver

... my way of thinking, this expression "my august confederates." Is there not something astounding about the use of the possessive pronoun in connection with the word "august," implying sovereignty? One wonders what part can they have to play, these confederates, led and dominated by a personality as jealous and self-centred ...

— The Schemes of the Kaiser • Juliette Adam

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