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 Horace White
It was not perhaps, quite so fascinating to these two people with what we call conscience and the possession of what makes the greatness of humanity, whether it appertain to man or woman.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
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 W. Harrison Ainsworth
But I don't like to hear that you have been "ill and blue"; that is a condition which seems more naturally to appertain to me.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
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