Belonging

Examples

• I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Moreover, a priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense _esprit de corps_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A promise, therefore, is naturally something altogether unintelligible, nor is there any act of the mind belonging to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• All others belonging to him have gone to the Power and the Glory, and I have a mind that they're drawing him to them--leading him away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A certain set of words and phrases, as much belonging to tourists as the College and the Snuggery belonged to the jail, was always in their mouths. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• No one at all like him, or belonging to him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Orloff diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, weighs 195 carats; the Pitt diamond, among the French crown jewels, 136-1/2. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their opinions clashed; and indeed, she had never perceived that he had cared for her opinions, as belonging to her, the individual. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This latter fact is well exemplified in the state of the wings of female moths belonging to the same family. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Let (A) be a common, widely-diffused, and varying species, belonging to a genus large in its own country. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In the same way, not the smallest morsel of property belonging to the proprietors of the house had been abstracted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Magyar is a language belonging to the Finno-Ugrian division of the Ural-Altaic tongues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of the most celebrated is the Koh-i-noor (Mountain of Light), belonging to the British crown. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Texas was originally a state belonging to the republic of Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Evidently someone was more anxious about our belongings than we, said Clayton. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Miss Havisham will soon be expecting you at your old post, though I think that might be laid aside now, with other old belongings. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He saw that he was cherished in her grateful remembrance secretly, and that they resented him with the jail and the rest of its belongings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But in examining his belongings I was fortunate enough to discover not only the method of the crime, but even its motives. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At this point Sola returned with our meager belongings and her young Martian protege, who, of course, would have to share the quarters with them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I have been trouble enough to my belongings in my day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was satisfied with the picnic then and with all its belongings. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was in debt, and his few belongings in books and instruments had to be left behind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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