Belonged

Examples

• I wish, Mr. Yeobright, you could give me something to keep that once belonged to her--if you don't mind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Seeing a soldier in blue on this log, I rode up to him, commenced conversing with him, and asked whose corps he belonged to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The house belonged to people in business. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I believe Miggles belonged to a Bank. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• 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.
• There I was told the island belonged to Turkey, as the Greek tributary islands only extend as far down as Santorin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• If he belonged to some savage tribe he had a savage wife--a dozen of them perhaps--and wild, half-caste children. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It wasn't the place my husband belonged to either. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He belonged in the steerage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I read these words over and over again: I felt that an explanation belonged to them, and was unable fully to penetrate their import. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• THAT belonged rather to the hearer, for Marianne listened with horror, and cried excessively. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• In some sections more anti-slavery men belonged to the Democratic party, and in others to the Whigs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Just as it belonged to his boastfulness to depreciate his own extraction, so it belonged to it to exalt Mrs. Sparsit's. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They belonged mostly to the Caucasian group of races and to the blond and northern subdivision of the group, to the Nordic race that is. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked feet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then it happened that in 1764 a small Newcomen engine that belonged to the University of Glasgow was given to James Watt, an instrument-maker at the university, to be repaired. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It belonged to the little desk which Amelia had given her in early days, and which she kept in a secret place. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He belonged to the world again. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Gautama belonged to the former race. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I belonged to the St. Clare family, said Adolph, proudly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It generally, too, belonged to the landlord, and was by him advanced to the occupiers of the land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Some person whom Count Fosco brought with him procured the luggage which belonged to Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The two larger, they stated, had belonged to a male and female of one of the higher white races. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He belonged to your time, not to mine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I thought, I continued, Thornfield belonged to you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was very polite, and, touching his hat to me, said he belonged to General Longstreet's corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When this was finished Arkwright went with it to Preston, and there set up his spinning-frame and began to use it in a room of the house that belonged to the Free Grammar School. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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