appertain

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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea of a life beyond this one seems also to appertain to normal humanity.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

In this way, it vaguely seems to them, they are able to save the doctrine of some one mode of origin as appertaining to species, which need not "necessarily" appertain to any other taxonomic division.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

But I don't like to hear that you have been "ill and blue"; that is a condition which seems more naturally to appertain to me.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

A land of things beyond the present, and yet which could never appertain to any future, map it as she might in the brain that went to work so busily.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William