Слово "possession". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

As the three men had now in their possession all the boats on the lake, their confidence was greatly increased, and there was no longer the same feverish desire to quit the shore, or the same necessity for extreme caution.

It was all-important to speak at once, before anyone else came, but now a terrible fear had taken possession of him.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

No possessions?

Mrs Franklin, I reflected, was that rather feckless type of woman who always did leave things behind, shedding her possessions and expecting everybody to retrieve them as a matter of course, and even, I fancied, was rather proud of herself for so doing.

Mrs. Jones looked out of the bedroom window, saw what was happening, hurriedly flung a few possessions into a carpet bag, and slipped out of the farm by another way.

Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession.