appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would wear the cap on one ear, and walk up and down in display, with a lofty smile, and a carriage supposed to appertain to a British officer in a grand moment.
From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
In this way, it vaguely seems to them, they are able to save the doctrine of some one mode of origin as appertaining to species, which need not "necessarily" appertain to any other taxonomic division.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
They appertain to all the duties of life, but are too numerous to be quoted here.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
His campaign against Lincoln for the senatorship does not properly appertain to the Life of Trumbull, although the latter took an active part in it.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
