7 sentences with “possessed”

"The Atlanteans possessed a divine nature', Plato claimed.

Marlee Bretz possessed remarkable musical gifts. She had won prizes for singing, flute and piano.

She possessed a dazzling smile, wore huge glasses and showed enthusiasm in everything she undertook.

The 18th century was the heyday of so-called "polite society" among the nobility: a legally reinforced elite who believed themselves to be possessed of true "good taste".

One advantage it possessed over handwritten copies of the Bible that quickly became apparent to Church officials was that errors in the text were much less likely to be introduced compared to hand copying.

This is all the more surprising because many of the legal rights that Egyptian women possessed were not available to women in Europe (or the United States) until the late 19th century, more than three thousand years later.

The Romans had always despised the "barbarians" and believed that the lands the barbarians possessed (such as Scotland and Germania) were largely unsuitable for civilisation, as they were too cold and wet for the kind of Mediterranean agriculture the Romans were used to.