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

But the Abbey of Vlaye is still our appanage.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

When Napoleon finds his brother obdurate he makes Eug�ne Prince of Venice, and his eldest daughter Princess of Bologna, with a large appanage.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe

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

Something more is required to compose a work such as "Faust"; that something which is the appanage of but few composers, and which is known as "individuality."

From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur