I was forced to censure those whom I admired, and could not but reflect, while I was Dispossessing their emendations, how soon the same fate might happen to my own, and how many of the readings which I have corrected may be by some other editor defended and established.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
He forgot his enmity to Manfred, whom he saw but little hope of Dispossessing by force; and flattering himself that no issue might succeed from the union of his daughter with the tyrant, he looked upon his own succession to the principality as facilitated by wedding Matilda.
"The Castle of Otranto"
Horace Walpole
But he has a far-sighted ambition which keeps him alive to all possible risks: and it occurs to him as wiser to secure the little sovereignty by marrying its heiress than by Dispossessing her.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr