movables

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Normally the capital receives about 14 million visitors annually; this year 17 million are expected, and already 10,000 tourists are trooping through the White House every day, eyeing the movables.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is just as unsafe to switch caboose cars in which train crews are resting or cars loaded with horses and cattle or emigrant movables in that way, and it ought to be stopped.

From Railroad Accidents Their Cause and Prevention by Richards, R. C.

"How? no share in them!" answered Sancho; "peradventure he they tossed in a blanket yesterday was not my father's son, and the wallets I have lost to-day, with all my movables, belong to somebody else?"

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

The movables on any ground are houses, trees, and any vegetables planted.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

Every one will, respectively, in proportion, have had more clothes, more linen, more movables than he had before.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by