Belongings
[bə'lɔŋɪŋz]
Examples
- 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.
Edited by Albert