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
If we can believe Toullier: "The absolute rights can be reduced to three: SECURITY, LIBERTY, PROPERTY."
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
Monstrous figures frown along the gloomy avenue that, leads up to the Egyptian temple in which the divinity, PROPERTY, dwells in mysterious darkness.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
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
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