appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 White, Horace
It is, then, in the republication of foreign works that our publishers ought to find an element of certainty, which cannot appertain to the publication of original and untried productions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
His duties are probably more varied than those that appertain to any other sort of engineering.
From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Hoskin, Arthur J.
Wilson, the chairman of the Military Committee, sustained the amendment, saying that the Hodge case did not appertain to military matters, but to finance, to the handling of public money.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
