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were possessing

  • past progressive
    of possess.
    possess
    verb (used with object)
    to have as belonging to one; have as property; own.

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Or where Ben-Jamin teams up the Crowned Sorceress, Sam O’Mal, to exorcise the vicious spirits that were possessing Hudsonien so he can find happiness again.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

I suggested that she return home to her parents, and she insisted that the demons were possessing them too.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot

Besides this, the Spaniards had freed them from the tyranny with which their kings and lords were possessing themselves of their wives and goods, which was the greatest injury which could be inflicted upon them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Again the Wanderer cried, "Let the audience come!" and peace and confidence were possessing him when a loud report and continuous rumble in the room set the solid floor to quaking.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis

For a moment or two Selwyn continued his restless walking up and down the room, in his face no masking of the pain and weariness of spirit that were possessing him.

From People Like That by Bosher, Kate Langley