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Example sentences for "belonged"

Lexicographically close words:
belo; belone; belong; belonga; belonge; belongeth; belonging; belonginge; belongings; belongs
  1. Viewing the front of the building thus wasted and defaced, his eyes naturally sought the little balcony which more properly belonged to Rose's apartment, her troisieme, or rather cinquieme, etage.

  2. Such was the situation of matters when the pedlar, missing, as he said, a little doggie which belonged to him, began to halt and whistle for the animal.

  3. The most important of the last respected the property of a gold watch, which had once belonged to some unfortunate English officer.

  4. Flora, to whom the drama was well known, was among the former; Rose, to whom it was altogether new, belonged to the latter class of admirers.

  5. She forgot that Horace belonged to the condemned race of "awful boys.

  6. This regard-ring had once belonged to Mrs. Hallock; but after being broken and mended it was too small for her, and she had given it to Cassy.

  7. The remainder of the day belonged to the world, to duty, to the man who paid me a pound a week and "tucker" for my hands and arms and as much brains as work with sheep demanded.

  8. I saw many of them: they belonged still to a conquered Samnium.

  9. The room clearly belonged to people who were fond of books when at home, and neglectful of them when away.

  10. They belonged to Maryska; but he did not know, indeed, he wondered if there were wild beasts in the place.

  11. Long Tom Coffin, Tom Tiller, Bob Yarn, belonged to a period when the United Stales was a maritime country, before American enterprise and industry were shut off from the sea by legislative imbecility.

  12. The work of a man who belonged so thoroughly to his own time, and who united in himself talents and virtues so remarkable could hardly fail to be of historical interest.

  13. The ideal character of the yeomanry succeeded to the ideal character of the knighthood; Robin Hood and his merry companions took the place in the popular mind which belonged to King Arthur and his knights of the Table Round.

  14. Saintship belonged to the mediæval Church; the heroism of religion has died with it.

  15. His petition further stated that the man had belonged to a regiment that had not hurt their officers, women, or children; but went over to the enemy and fought for heavy stakes and lost all.

  16. It would have been rather a difficult matter to find out what regiment a man belonged to.

  17. After a minute inspection up and down the ranks, not a man could be picked out, but they still persisted that the party that had given them such an unmerciful beating belonged to us.

  18. I knew one of these rascals, but for the sake of the gallant regiment to which he belonged I withhold his name.

  19. A number of poor fellows were so shattered that we could not tell who they were, or what regiment they belonged to.

  20. He was glad to praise others when they deserved it, and he was too big a man to steal the credit that belonged to subordinates.

  21. Nothing could better show the smallmindedness of the class of officialdom to which Bathurst and Prevost belonged than their willingness, now that victory was achieved, to share in the credit therefore.

  22. The other pair was cruelly mocking, and they belonged to the girl that Marjorie had mentally styled the Evil Genius.

  23. The voice belonged to the Mary girl; they were to share the same locker.

  24. Never has there been such a backsliding generation, as the parson would say--half the country once belonged to my ancestors, and now the last furrows of it seem to be flying.

  25. Lady Binks, in a tone something sharper than ought to have belonged to so beautiful a countenance.

  26. In other respects, Lady Penelope pretty much resembled the numerous class she belonged to.

  27. It belonged to the house, and the desk was closed and locked.

  28. She didn't know I belonged to Onoway House.

  29. He was dressed in the same style as a merchant or other citizen might have been, with a black frock-coat and beaver hat; but there was something in his look that told me he belonged to the sea.

  30. Fishing boats for the same reason were not abroad, and such pleasure boats as belonged to our village had all gone in their usual direction, down the bay, to a celebrated lighthouse there--most likely the boat of Harry Blew among the rest.

  31. It was situated in a gentleman's park, that extended backward from the end of the village, and the pond of course belonged to the owner of the park.

  32. Sophie's parents belonged to the upper bourgeoisie, and at the time of her birth appear to have been in comfortable circumstances.

  33. If I belonged to the Académie-Française, my opinion would carry as much weight as that of any other of the Forty.

  34. The old monks belonged to that school, and they wrought out branches, leaves and leaf-veins, and framed the lacework of their chisels with colored glass most exquisitely.

  35. They are older than the Order of the Garter, and belonged to feudalism.

  36. But the two actors belonged to the same school; their traditions will be much akin; and neither loses in being spoken of in the same breath, and with the same accent of admiration.

  37. Mr. Burton inclined to the opinion that the work once belonged to Shakespeare, and that the signature is genuine.

  38. It is not surprising that we of the city of New York forget that the comedian so long belonged to Philadelphia.

  39. That's a beautiful locket you're wearing--it is the very image of one that belonged to me poor little Clara that died.

  40. It belonged to a lady artist, who, having to live abroad, wished to sell it; and it is now yours.

  41. But," she added, "you must allow that we had no other course than to accept the present as though it really belonged to us.

  42. It was not a difficult task, for as the property which had belonged to Brij Lall was easily saleable, we soon found purchasers among the numerous goldsmiths and sahoukars of the city.

  43. We had indeed got a prize; and it was not to be wondered at that the care of them had cost the man they belonged to so much anxiety.

  44. A Sahoukar who was in the assembly declared it to have belonged to Jeswunt Mul, and, more than all, his name was engraven on its inner surface.

  45. To gain this was an object on which Cheetoo had set his heart, as he had heard it amounted to many lakhs of rupees, and it belonged to the detested Europeans.

  46. He was delighted at this spontaneous offer on my part, readily acceded to my wishes, and at once put me under the care of Hoosein and Roop Singh, the old Thug I have mentioned, who belonged to Hoosein's party.

  47. I well recollect the day he joined us, at a village not very far from Delhi; I was then a youth, and belonged to the band of which Hoosein was one of the best Bhuttotes.

  48. They said, that a short time before, the regiment to which they belonged was quartered in Canada, and the soldiers had a bear, which they brought up tame.

  49. In a chapel a little below this, likewise, is a little door painted by his hand (which formerly belonged to an old organ), wherein there is a S.

  50. He was honourably buried by his fellow-citizens in the principal church, which formerly belonged to the Order of Camaldoli, and is now the Vescovado.

  51. I have been outcast from all life, for I belonged to none.

  52. She thought no one could be so glad of his success as she was; she felt as if she belonged to him, had always belonged to him, and only some spiteful trick of Fate had come between them.

  53. The estate which had come into Constantine's possession had belonged to Barkas, the Libyan, who, with his troops, had been so anxiously and vainly expected to succor the Serapeum.

  54. It never entered her mind that he belonged to the same species as herself.

  55. Old man," said I, "you look as if you belonged to some persuasion.

  56. The merit of this belonged in a high degree to herself.

  57. The chatelaine pocket belonged on the side, but in Gay's hands it swung in front.

  58. They belonged to your little great-aunt, Katherine Haines, who died sixty years ago.

  59. To tell the truth I didn't do it to gratify you; I thought she belonged there; she's the image of your mother.


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