The "Flowers of the Forest" however is considered the only thing she wrote that possesses lasting literary merit.

We're totally focused on the question of who possesses merit and don't pay nearly enough attention to the overall good.

Growing up surrounded by strong warriors, he possesses merit as a mercenary, despite his youth.

Robespierre wrote to his brother, the real head of the government at the moment, that Napoleon possessed "transcendent merit."

If "Lucrece" does not scale the heights, it nonetheless possesses merit.

He was a painter whose pictures possess great merit, and are to be met with in almost every collection.

Although she was not equal to her sister in the use of the graver, her prints possess considerable merit.

He studied historical painting under Verhaeghen, and made large pen-and-ink drawings, which possess much merit.

Notwithstanding this defect, which was very general at the time in which he lived, his works possess considerable merit.

In spite of the help of many friends, it was some time before the public realized that her work possessed high merit.