possesst

Yet a cruel world too often injures my feelings, by wondering how a person possesst of domestick attachments can sacrifice them by absenting himself for years.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 December 1782 1993

Britain with Hengist, who is described as a young Warrior endowd with all the necessary qualifications for accomplishing so arduous an undertaking, possesst of valour and experience, a solid judgment, an easy address and engageing Behaviour.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 April 1796 1796

I believe our Son will prove to be possesst of [illegible] the Spirit, calld

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 April 1796 1796

-- "Sir," said Joseph, "I assure you her beauty is her least perfection; nor do I know a virtue which that young creature is not possesst of."

Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730

a young Lady possesst with as much apparent coldness and indifference as ever you saw in one character, and with such a reserve as has many a time awed to the greatest distance the least approach towards her.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 December 1782 1993

In February the _Journal_ accords a noble tribute "to that great Triumvirate Lucian, Cervantes, and Swift"; not indeed "for that Wit and Humour alone, which they all so eminently possesst, but because they all endeavoured with the utmost Force of their

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Cervantes, and Swift”; not indeed “for that Wit and Humour alone, which they all so eminently possesst, but because they all endeavoured with the utmost Force of their Wit and Humour, to expose and extirpate those Follies and Vices which chiefly prevailed in their several Countries.”

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

Catnip, an 'it set me moind aisy, too, fur no Cat that's possesst' ll iver ate inunder the shaddy av the crass. "

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903