appanage

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The most interesting feature of Langkor is an ancient temple, an appanage of the great Drophung monastery of Lhasa.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

Even the Papacy, the only stable power, had become the appanage of a Roman family.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

For the internal regulation of the conscience it had erected the institution of auricular confession, which by this time had become almost the exclusive appanage of the priesthood.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

Napoleon's sword has sliced off the continent—France, Holland, Spain, Italy, Prussia—and his fork is dug spitefully into Hanover, which was then an appanage of the British crown.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber

His glory is the property of no party or opinion; it is the appanage and inheritance of all.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett