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She was like one possessed while reading it, and for a while after reading she was, for a usually amiable child, quite nasty".

Ahmed Alaklouk, 22, faces a federal gun charge for possessing a weapon while living in the U.S. illegally.

In January 2005, he was sentenced to 18 months probation for possessing a gun while drunk.

In an ironic twist, during the same week the Judiciary Committee was considering this bill, Rep. Curry Todd, a Tennessee State legislator who championed a bill to allow concealed carry permit holders to take their guns into bars in his State, was arrested for possessing a handgun while intoxicated.

Robert Lowell punned on Coleridge ("Robert Frost at midnight, the audience gone / to vapor") in his sonnet for Frost, and John Berryman, who remembered both Frost's "malice" and his "good / big face," put it succinctly: "For a while here we possessed / an unusual man".

We talked for a while about what possesses people to shoot this kind of bird, and came up with no satisfactory answer.

He was arrested for possessing a controlled substance while armed with a handgun.

They are possessed, truly possessed, by an enthusiasm without object, as if they knew that, just for a while, eternity was theirs to play up in, and were determined not to waste the opportunity.

Mr. Diveroli is awaiting sentencing for a separate charge of possessing a firearm while on bail.

For a while the man dances alone, swinging his hips and arms as if possessed, or more likely high.

For a while he….

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