appanage
Example Sentences
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Acre was added to acre and estate to estate,141 often by the dangerous expedient of borrowed money, until Buckinghamshire seemed likely to become the appanage of the family.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Napoleon's sword has sliced off the continent—France, Holland, Spain, Italy, Prussia—and his fork is dug spitefully into Hanover, which was then an appanage of the British crown.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper
An appanage of the Crown, they had been called so from the days of William the Conqueror.
From The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume
The new member of the ruling House would waive all claim to an appanage.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
