appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
And nobody knew better than Chaucer the respective merits of the Months, and the peculiar qualities and characteristics which appertain to each.
From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George
The bellows must always be near at hand, the tongs not out of reach; both of them more sensible implements than those that usually appertain to coals.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
The person produced as mine in the playhouse, last winter, did in no wise appertain to me.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
Planks, in a political sense, are the several principles which appertain to a party; platform is the collection of such principles.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
