appertain

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Last week, the Senate wrote finis on its investigations of Secretary Fall, of naval oil leases, of all that appertained thereto, filthy or clean.

From Time Magazine Archive

It appeared not only in the person of Jerry himself, but in everything that appertained to him—his house, his grounds, his dogs, and his daughter; in short, all his belongings.

From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Reid, Mayne

This have ye heard with a careless or rather blockish heart, as though the reading thereof nothing at all appertained unto yourselves.

From Old English Chronicles by Various

Of what was said everything appertained to Ayala.

From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony

The courts were clothed with the entire judicial power of the Government; were only authorized to act upon one class of subjects—those which appertained to the judicial power of the United States.

From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Van Buren, Martin