From the resolutions of the bench, bar, and public generally, now in my possession, his death was universally deplored; more especially by his neighbors in Lancaster, and by the Society of Freemasons, of which he was the High-Priest of Arch Chapter No. 11.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

On the 10th of April I received General Grant's letter of April 4th from Washington, which formed the basis of all the campaigns of the year 1864, and subsequently received another of April 19th, written from Culpepper, Virginia, both of which are now in my possession, in his own handwriting, and are here given entire.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"That would not improve my prospect," said Lydgate, rising and speaking bitterly, "even if it were a more agreeable thing in itself.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nobody is more popular in that county than young Sir Philip Ashley, although his neighbors grumble sometimes at his absorption in scientific and philanthropic objects, and think that it would be more creditable to them if he went out with the hounds a little oftener or were a rather better shot.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Yet I hope that the reasons, now in my power to allege, will persuade you to withdraw a request which I cannot obey without infinite reluctance.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

I had nothing in my pockets but money and Alan’s silver button; and being inland bred, I was as much short of knowledge as of means.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

You suppose me wealthy, and I am not so; as soon as what there is now in my purse is spent I shall have nothing left.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Shake it now in my presence.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

I felt at once that the means were now in my power of striking down the whole conspiracy at a blow with the irresistible weapon of plain fact.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In coming through France it was not in my power to go into Brittany, and avail myself of your letter of introduction to him; the place of his residence lying too far out of my route.
— from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

So little has hitherto been recorded of this part of Longfellow’s life or of his early married life in any way, that I am glad to be able to describe it from the original letters of the young wife, which are now in my possession, and are addressed mainly to Mrs. Longfellow, her mother-in-law.
— from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

" "I assure you it is not in my power."
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

But do not open it at once nor in my presence.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

From notes in my possession, I think the explanation becomes clear.
— from Wagner as I Knew Him by Ferdinand Praeger

On my word, there is nothing in Mr. Perkins's life on the mountain in any manner dishonorable or—or irregular.”
— from The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams

I thought I heard a cry, and naturally, in my present frame of mind, my thoughts flew to Marjory in some danger; she was calling me.
— from The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker

Pieper and Jenatsky to combine the petrol and electric systems, by an arrangement which instead of wasting power in the cylinders when less speed is required, throws into action electric dynamos to store up energy, convertible, when needed, into motive power by reversing the dynamo into a motor.
— from The Romance of Modern Invention Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c. by Archibald Williams