"You are weary and spent," he said, gently, repossessing himself of one of her hands.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell
To be sure two of the smugglers were bowled over, dead, and two badly wounded, but the remaining ten were not long in repossessing themselves of their goods; and when our train pulled out, the baggage car riddled with bullets till it looked like a sieve, the ten were hurriedly repacking their mules for flight west to the Sierras.
"The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier"
Edgar Beecher Bronson
The Germans, however, had not yet succeeded in repossessing themselves of the Montretout redoubt.
"The Franco-German War of 1870-71"
Count Helmuth, von Moltke