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- adverb in a
possessing manner
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Examples
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And again her hand stole down possessingly, serpent soft, to the drunken head of the
The Moon Pool 2004
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And again her hand stole down possessingly, serpent soft, to the drunken head of the O'Keefe.
The Moon Pool 1919
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And again her hand stole down possessingly, serpent soft, to the drunken head of the O'Keefe.
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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Her delicate, shining little face with its wreath of dark hair, went with him everywhere, hauntingly, possessingly; and when he kissed her, as he did now every morning and every evening under Mr. Skale's very eyes, it was like plunging his lips into a bed of wild flowers that no artificial process had ever touched.
The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910
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He held her hand more possessingly, as he said, very clearly:
There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906
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