appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The complicated and various interests which appertain to the nations of this vast continent cannot be safely confided to the superintendence of one legislative authority.
From The United States and Latin America by Latane, John Holladay
Physical qualities, such as colour and tone, were supposed to appertain to the surface of bodies.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
It is, then, in the republication of foreign works that our publishers ought to find an element of certainty, which cannot appertain to the publication of original and untried productions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
The general character of his face seemed to appertain to the middle period of life; but a closer inspection enabled the beholder to detect in it marks of extreme old age.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison
