appanage

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The Romans retained it for as long a period as the Phœnicians; and after being ravaged by Goths and Vandals, it was for three and a half centuries an appanage of the crown of Byzantium.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

He had put from him the dream of love and happiness, while love and happiness were the just appanage of his years; his ambitious plans left him no time to indulge in dreaming.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

The unsettled dispute about the appanage had been aggravated by the struggle over their mother's will.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

A systematic appeal to the deeper powers in man—conceived with the generality with which I have here conceived it—cannot remain a mere appanage of medical practice.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

But the Abbey of Vlaye is still our appanage.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.