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
"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 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
And those who could not get away themselves were anxious to send, at least, wife and child and the best of their movables out of the town, which seemed doomed.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
From being an infrequent and uncertain kind of taxation the direct tax on movables, which was practically absorbing the older forms, became usual and regular.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
I know the court, and thee, and thy use, and how you serve but as the handsomest movables; a kind of implement above-stairs, and look much like one of the old court-servants in the hangings.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
