Belongs

Examples

• They have been looking at the house in St. Peter's Place, next to Mr. Hackbutt's; it belongs to him, and he is putting it nicely in repair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Or I could turn you a rare handle for that crutch-stick, if it belongs to him you call your father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was now a real animation; and she began to dress for it with much of the happy flutter which belongs to a ball. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The old parsons is worth the whole lump of college lads; they know what belongs to good manners, and is kind to high and low. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All this country belongs to the Papal States. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A dearer one belongs to you, Perdita, mother of his child. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I shall not enlarge upon this objection, because it principally belongs to natural philosophy, which lies without our present sphere. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And the figure to which it belongs--' Is yours,' suggested Bella. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A man, for instance, is vain of a beautiful house, which belongs to him, or which he has himself built and contrived. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Everything that belongs to her, or is connected with her, is precious to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• One of the largest diamonds known (weight 367 carats) was found in Borneo about a century ago, and belongs to the Rajah of Mattan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then on this view also justice will be admitted to be the having and doing what is a man's own, and belongs to him? Plato. The Republic.
• Belongs to you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• No, it belongs to that French gentleman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then he said, slowly, as if afraid: 'There is life which belongs to death, and there is life which isn't death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The infamous dog has got every vice except hypocrisy, and that belongs to his brother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It belongs exclusively to the Nineteenth Century, and owes its existence to the tireless energy of one man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• And I know that it belongs to your conscientious nature to try to become worthy of it, my dear Frederick, and to try to adorn it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Hence every thing, that is new, is most affecting, and gives us either more pleasure or pain, than what, strictly speaking, naturally belongs to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was not until the Nineteenth Century, however, that it was generally applied, and its great work belongs to this period. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Find out who that dress belongs to. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We will not discuss here the Buddhistic doctrine of _Karma_, because it belongs to a world of thought that is passing away. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yet Wilson belongs among the statesmen, and it is fine that he should be in public life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Yes, but he belongs to another man. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But the whole produce of the land undoubtedly belongs to him, who can dispose of the labour and service of all those whom it maintains. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The stock which is accumulated into a capital, may either be employed by the person to whom it belongs, or it may be lent to some other person. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I hope to put a bullet into the man whom that belongs to. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Consequently the testing and sifting function of education only shows to which one of three classes an individual belongs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mean while I shall rest contented with observing one example, which belongs to the present subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• An't you George Harris, that belongs to Mr. Harris, of Shelby county, Kentucky? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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