appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But to what portion of sovereignty does it appertain?

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.

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

But these considerations appertain to the politician; they do not lie within the scope of the present writer.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous