quiet enjoyment

Examples of quiet possession

quiet possession
I have taken quietpossession of the parsonage, finding it empty.
From Project Gutenberg
The enemy moved forward to ascertain the fact, and finding the news too true, left us in quietpossession of it.
From Project Gutenberg
On going nearer the nest, there was another hedgehog in quietpossession.
From Project Gutenberg
If innocent, why was it that she was now so much moved, after twenty years of quietpossession?
From Project Gutenberg
The enemy fled towards the fort, and left us in quietpossession of the outer fortification.
From Project Gutenberg
It will be useless to wage war against vagrancy if we leave the enemy in quietpossession of his cover.
From Project Gutenberg
They have, for their keynote, the happiness of one who loves true liberty in quietpossession of himself.
From Project Gutenberg
There they were, with their wives and children, in quietpossession of their different habitations.
From Project Gutenberg
He took quietpossession of the agitated trembling creature who had carried her empire over herself too far.
From Project Gutenberg
But he was not admitted into "quietpossession," according to the words of the will.
From Project Gutenberg
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.