appertain
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
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At length the right of convoking the diet was assigned to the primate, and the elective franchise was decided to appertain in an equal degree to each of the nobles, without the intervention of electors.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
But these considerations appertain to the politician; they do not lie within the scope of the present writer.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
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 Romanes, George John
A land of things beyond the present, and yet which could never appertain to any future, map it as she might in the brain that went to work so busily.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William
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