movables
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Normally the capital receives about 14 million visitors annually; this year 17 million are expected, and already 10,000 tourists are trooping through the White House every day, eyeing the movables.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ship, the Sea Lady said, dropped into the abyss as if it were loaded with lead, and its crew and other movables did not follow it down until much later in the day.
From The Sea Lady by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
From the very moment when private property in movables developed there had to be ethical sanctions of general effect in all communities in which private property prevailed, thus: Thou shalt not steal.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
His books, movables, trifles, everything were sold for bread; and his wife sunk under the horrors of their situation, and became insane.
From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Leitch Ritchie
It will have got its living, that is to say, its food, raiment, lodging, movables.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
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