appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Win the consent of your sweetheart, after your own way; but don’t try to take advantage of a power, that does not appertain to you.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
His campaign against Lincoln for the senatorship does not properly appertain to the Life of Trumbull, although the latter took an active part in it.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
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
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
