property
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Oh, mon Dieu!" she said, dropping rapidly into a different accent, with her white teeth and fixed mirthless smile, "so it is a claim for PROPERTY, eh?
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Harte, Bret
Sir Joshua Reynolds observed, with great truth, that Johnson considered Garrick to be as it were his PROPERTY.
From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor
In speaking thus, you unconsciously argue exactly after the manner of M. Cousin, who always reasons from possession to PROPERTY.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
"I am the heir—but you see, boys, there AIN'T ANY PROPERTY."
From Openings in the Old Trail by Harte, Bret
The Declaration of Rights has placed property in its list of the natural and inalienable rights of man, four in all: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, PROPERTY, SECURITY.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
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