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His eye looked very possessive for that of one seeking employment as a guide, but he stood at respectful attention until spoken to. "These gentlemen have decided to employ you," the consul announced. "Mashallah!" "They want to find a castle in the mountains, to hunt bear and boar, and to see Zeitoon." "I shall lead them to ten castles never seen before by Eenglismen!
He wanted to protect her, to save her, to spend himself for her.... He felt for her a reverent wonder, a stirring that was at once protective and possessive and denying of all self. He would die to save her. He tried to tell himself reassuringly that he had saved her.... If only he could keep her safe.... He thought of the life before her.
She neither proclaimed nor disavowed her identity. She was frankly Silvia to those who knew and cared; but there was no trace of the Egeria in her pose. She spoke often of Rendle's books, but seldom of himself; there was no posthumous conjugality, no use of the possessive tense, in her abounding reminiscences.
But the thistledown was still as death, and the face of his old master. Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass! 1917 Two households both alike in dignity, From ancient grudge, break into new mutiny. Romeo and Juliet The possessive instinct never stands still.
The very fact that Raymond was more jealous of her than Ralph had ever been or at any rate less reluctant to show it gave her a keener sense of recovered power. None of the men who had been in love with her before had been so frankly possessive, or so eager for reciprocal assurances of constancy.
Without words to give it expression he saw in her attitude to the leader a pliant, docile softness, a surreptitious leap of light in the glance that fell upon him in quick welcome before her lids shut it in. With Courant the change showed in a possessive tenderness, a brooding concern.
The hemlock garland she was wearing fell to her knees and she sat in a kind of trance. It was so manifestly absurd that Miss Hatchard should talk of Harney in that familiar possessive way, as if she had any claim on him, or knew anything about him.
She saw Maud Dyer peer at Erik with moist possessive eyes. "Yes! Let's!" she said. She cried to the party, with the canonical amount of sprightliness, "Good-by, everybody. We'll wireless you from China." As the rhythmic oars plopped and creaked, as she floated on an unreality of delicate gray over which the sunset was poured out thin, the irritation of Cy and Maud slipped away.
In pleonasms, which are comparatively prevalent among the uneducated, the same essential structure is seen; as, for instance, in "The men, they were there." Again, the old possessive case "The king, his crown," conforms to the like order of thought.
What then is its import? The American tongues help us here: Now in these, and in numerous other American tongues, the prefix is the possessive pronoun; in other words, there is a great number of American languages where the capacity for abstracting the thing possessed from the possessor is so slight as to make it almost impossible to disconnect the noun from its pronoun.
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