Example Sentences

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She turned and lifted a smile of possessorship to Ralph.

From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith

Memory alone gives value to the products of every other faculty, stamping them with the seal of possessorship, and making them truly ours.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)

He had never had much of the joy of possessorship in any of the thousand and one beautiful and curious things that were his; and now he was conscious of envy for what was another’s. 

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He had never had much of the joy of possessorship in any of the thousand and one beautiful and curious things that were his; and now he was conscious of envy for what was another’s.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

As the thought of Haskett receded, Waythorn felt himself yielding again to the joy of possessorship.

From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith