Use belonging in a sentence
Sentences ending with belonging
- He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty hereby devolved upon him by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. [7]
Sentences containing belonging two or more times
- He had not so much the air of belonging there, as of belonging anywhere--one of those anomalistic American citizens of the world who go abroad and make intimates of princes. [9]
More example sentences with the word belonging in them
- He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
- Even a stone with a whitish band crossing it, belonging to the pavement of the back-yard, insisted on becoming one of the talismans of memory. [6]
- If the woman with a twisted pelvis is to be considered an exempt, the woman with a defective organization should be recognized as belonging to the invalid corps. [3]
- The graver reader will not object to seeing the exact statement of a competent witness belonging to a by-gone century, confirmed as it is by all that we see about us. [6]
- Much as the Widow was pleased with the costume belonging to her condition, she did not disguise from herself that under certain circumstances she might be willing to change her name again. [6]
- Some rascally bondmen who had seized cattle and utensils belonging to others had been bound to a palmtree, and the ravens that followed the procession; and had found ample sustenance on the way, now croaked greedily around the quickly established place of execution. [10]
- These perfect creatures were perhaps as fine as the famous team of golden bays belonging to Iphicrates, which so often had proved victorious; but the agitatores, or drivers, attracted even more interest than the horses. [10]
- In Orlando's veins was Southern sap, mixed with Northern blood; in Orlando's eyes was a sudden look belonging to that which defies the law. [11]
- At Stratford there was by royal charter a Court of Record sitting every fortnight, with six attorneys, besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not straining probability to suppose that the young Shakespeare may have had employment in one of them. [5]
- Jack's and Edith's wardrobes, and some pieces of ancestral furniture that he pointed out as belonging to his wife, were removed before the auction flag was hung out. [4]
- He had, for want of a more convenient punishment, promptly knocked down Jeff Hyde, the sometime bully of the fort, for appropriating a bundle of furs belonging to a French half-breed, Gaspe Toujours. [11]
- It is a very thoughtless thing to say that the physician stands to the divine in the same light as the divine stands to the physician, so far as each may attempt to handle subjects belonging especially to the other's profession. [6]
- We had dinner under the green trees in a garden belonging to the hotel and overlooking the Neckar; then, after a smoke, we went to bed. [5]
- It was the uncontrollable woman in her, the mother-thing, belonging to the first woman that ever was-protection of the weak, hovering love for the suffering, the ministering spirit. [11]
- I had no trouble with young characters; they are all pretty much alike,--dark-haired or light-haired, with the outfits belonging to their complexion, respectively. [6]
- I was a trespasser on the domain belonging to another generation. [6]
- The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
- Even in the tomb of Ti at Sakkara, which dates from the time of the Pyramids, we meet with a chief overseer of the vessels belonging to a wealthy Egyptian. [10]
- The species belonging to these distinct genera inhabit the same districts, and are so like each other that no one "but a naturalist would distinguish the harmless from the poisonous kinds. [1]
- Two humming-birds belonging to the genus Eustephanus, both beautifully coloured, inhabit the small island of Juan Fernandez, and have always been ranked as specifically distinct. [1]
- Certain fishes, belonging to several families, make nests, and some of them take care of their young when hatched. [1]
- I scarcely need to say that I consider the military posts and property situated within the States which claim to have seceded as yet belonging to the Government of the United States as much as they did before the supposed secession. [7]
- Other animals, belonging to quite distinct classes, are either habitually or occasionally capable of breeding before they have fully acquired their adult characters. [1]
- Appenzelder had intended to practise exercises with his young pupils in the chapel belonging to this old house, familiar to all the inhabitants of Ratisbon, but Wolf found it empty. [10]
- It was easy to find the key belonging to the outer door, for each was labelled on a scrap of yellow parchment. [12]
- I have enough to do to intercede for her with Eva and Aunt Kunigunde since she singed and oiled the locks of a Swiss knight belonging to the Emperor's court. [10]
- The first thing to be done is, some years before birth, to advertise for a couple of parents both belonging to long-lived families. [6]
- She could not think of the mill as belonging to the Chipperings and the other stockholders, but to Ditmar, who had shaped it into an expression of himself, since it was his ideal. [9]
- A good many things belonging to me are still lying in your workshop. [10]
- Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen. [2]
- He had been there about an hour this morning when a clerk brought him a small box, which, he said, had been found inside another box belonging to the Belward-Staplings, a distant branch of the family. [11]
- It came from the Temple of Nemesis--a pretty little structure belonging to the time of Alexander the Great, which he had often examined with pleasure. [10]
- Thus by degrees the sense of belonging to a special priesthood had grown on me. [9]
- But something of the same fever in a different form reaches a good many non-combatants, who have no thought of losing a drop of precious blood belonging to themselves or their families. [6]
- We-no-na (first-born) was the name of a maiden who had plighted her troth to a lover belonging to the same band. [5]
- Both are on the most intimate terms with Nature, but Emerson contemplates himself as belonging to her, while Wordsworth feels as if she belonged to him. [6]
- Those belonging to the little Cairo line and the little Memphis line always stopped; the big Orleans liners stopped for hails only, or to land passengers or freight; and this was the case also with the great flotilla of "transients. [5]
- These letters were the last thing that held me in sympathy with any remnant or belonging of the old life. [5]
- At Accho, in the land of the Canaanites, the fleets of the Syrians, Phoenicians and Ionians belonging to Persia, and the auxiliary ships from Cyprus and Samos, won by the efforts of Phanes, were assembled. [10]
- Her instinct for the detection of book-agents, no matter how brisk and businesslike they might appear, was unerring--she remembered faces and the names belonging to them: an individual once observed to be persona non grata never succeeded in passing her twice. [9]
- Miss Belle recognized the carriage immediately as belonging to an elderly lady who was well known in St. Louis. [9]
- The first is the boldness of Emerson's assertions and predictions in matters belonging to science and art. [6]
- Priests swarmed in the Alcazar, and soldiers belonging to every branch of military service, daily guarded or marched by the palace. [10]
- We have seen that, according to Lartet, existing mammals belonging to several orders have larger brains than their ancient tertiary prototypes. [1]
- It soon transpired that they were drummers--one belonging in Cincinnati, the other in New Orleans. [5]
- At eight o'clock that morning the postman brought him a letter marked personal, the handwriting on which he recognized as belonging to the Honourable Hilary Vane. [9]
- How can he tell the exhaustion produced by his evacuants from the collapse belonging to the disease they were meant to remove? [3]
- The sea fairly swarmed with ships, some belonging to the royal fleet, some to curious Alexandrians, who had sailed out to take a survey. [10]
- His crime was stealing funds belonging to a Squatting and Mining Company. [11]
- This much the State for its own protection is bound to require, for suffrage is an expediency, not a right belonging to universal humanity regardless of intelligence or of character. [4]
- The old national spirit, which made the Greeks omnipotent against the millions of Darius and Xerxes, shall live again, and we will keep the Barbarians at a distance as a Patrician forbids his inferiors to count themselves as belonging to his illustrious house. [10]
- There are twenty-six species belonging to fifteen genera, which manifestly have their plumage coloured in a protective manner; and this colouring is all the more striking, as with most of these birds it differs from that of their congeners. [1]
- They were in some sort comparable with the families belonging to the Signoria at Venice, from whom, in the same way, the great council was chosen. [10]
- Many mammals and some few birds are polygamous, but with animals belonging to the lower classes I have found no evidence of this habit. [1]
- Luther's wedding-ring was shown me; also a fork belonging to a time anterior to our era, and an early bootjack. [5]
- The love which she had never wholly withdrawn was again his, and the feeling of belonging to him exalted her pride and brightened her clouded soul. [10]
- A tall, broad-shouldered sergeant belonging to the escort had just purchased--for the larger part of the zecchins won as his share of the booty in the Italian war--the indulgence which he thought would secure him from the tortures of the fire of purgatory. [10]
- Crotch for having sent me many prepared specimens of various beetles belonging to these three families and to others, as well as for valuable information. [1]
- Besides, I have seen a good many desperate fellows at the bar, and I have a fancy they all have a look belonging to them. [6]
- The two Gourdins, Robert and John Gaillard Keith, were dashing young fellows as I recollect them, belonging to Charleston, South Carolina. [6]
- The reader may remember how my recollections started from their hiding-place when I came, in one of our excursions, upon the name of Lechmere, as belonging to the owner of a fine estate by or through which we were driving. [6]
- It is more remarkable that parrots, belonging to a group distinct from the Insessores, and having differently constructed vocal organs, can be taught not only to speak, but to pipe or whistle tunes invented by man, so that they must have some musical capacity. [1]
- It was not really the first attempt at handling a theme belonging to past generations, because I had written for Good Words, about the year 1890, a short novel which I called The Chief Factor, a tale of the Hudson's Bay Company. [11]
- It was everywhere positively asserted that a knight belonging to the Emperor's train had been caught at the Ortlieb mansion, either in a nocturnal interview or while climbing into the window. [10]
- The Catarrhine and Platyrrhine monkeys agree in a multitude of characters, as is shewn by their unquestionably belonging to one and the same Order. [1]
- But the well-known phrase, belonging to the pugilist rather than to the priest, brought me back from the ideal world into which my imagination had wandered. [6]
- This suture occasionally persists more or less distinctly in man after maturity; and more frequently in ancient than in recent crania, especially, as Canestrini has observed, in those exhumed from the Drift, and belonging to the brachycephalic type. [1]
- Near it, likewise, on the same hill-crag, stood the old castle belonging to the High Constable, or Burgrave Friedrich. [10]
- This building stood on a plot of ground belonging to him in Rhacotis, behind a timber-yard which was accessible from the streets in front and behind, but sheltered from the public gaze by sheds and wood-stacks. [10]
- She found an old book of French verse, once belonging to Mme. [11]
- Almost every part of their plumage has been taken advantage of, and modified; and the modifications have been carried, as Mr. Gould shewed me, to a wonderful extreme in some species belonging to nearly every sub-group. [1]
- The First Groom of the Palace will proceed to count the portable articles of value belonging to the premises. [5]
- The free intercrossing of the many individuals belonging to the same species would ultimately tend to make any change of colour, thus induced, uniform in character. [1]
- It was one of the largest belonging to the Occidental Company. [11]
- The little daughter of the house made a doll of me, [Dolls belonging to the time of the Pharaohs are preserved in the museums, for instance, the jointed ones at Leyden. [10]
- The various rulers of Mexico sold to American and other foreign capitalists the resources belonging to the people of their country, and pocketed, with their followers, the proceeds of the sale. [9]
- Under both runs obscurely a consciousness belonging to a third train of reflections, independent of the two others. [6]
- The smith's son now received the best clothes belonging to his aristocratic companion in age. [10]
- From the facts now given, we may conclude that the courtship of birds belonging to widely different groups, is often a prolonged, delicate, and troublesome affair. [1]
- A party of nobles, ecclesiastics, and knights belonging to the Emperor's train were just coming out. [10]
- Even Rajahs had no terrors for Feringhea; he came across an elephant-driver belonging to the Rajah of Oodeypore and promptly strangled him. [5]
- Though it has no pretensions to be considered as belonging among the sciences, it may be looked upon by a scientific man as a curious object of study among the vagaries of the human mind. [6]
- It was only necessary to tear down some small buildings belonging to the Crown and a little temple of Berenike at the southern part of the royal harbour. [10]
- The best known names in the Territory of Nevada were those belonging to these long-tailed heroes of the revolver. [5]
- Flower, Mr. and Mrs. Willett, with A---- and myself, to Compton Wynyate, a most interesting old mansion, belonging to the Marquis of Northampton, who, with his daughter-in-law, Lady William Compton, welcomed us and showed us all the wonders of the place. [6]
- Early the next morning they should be examined, and, if they could clear themselves from the suspicion of belonging to the ranks of the conspirators, released. [10]
- We had the misfortune of seeing a painting of his in a collection belonging to one of the French princes, and exhibited at the Art Museum. [6]
- Beetles belonging to many and widely distinct families possess these organs. [1]
- He's speculated and made money every time, but I never heard of his wrecking a railroad or belonging to any swindling company or any grinding monopoly. [8]
- Charley has come, listened, acted--and now John T. Lewis has ceased to consider himself as belonging to that class called "the poor. [5]
- The day was lead-coloured; the road had stone factories alongside of it,--grey, dull-coloured rows of stone cottages belonging to these factories, and then we came to poor, hungry-looking fields;--stone fences everywhere, and trees nowhere. [14]
- Seldom with the later years had he asked her to sing, because he was so busy; and somehow his ear had not that keenness of sound once belonging to it. [11]
- But he was kind and gentle only to those of his regiment, to Timokhin and the like--people quite new to him, belonging to a different world and who could not know and understand his past. [2]
- He was a journeyman cooper, and worked in the big cooper-shop belonging to the great pork-packing establishment which was Marion City's chief pride and sole source of prosperity. [5]
- I'm so glad it's over safe--no one belonging to him here, and not knowing if he'd wake up alive or not--I just was swamped. [11]
- To him it is a life apart; not belonging to the life he lives -a passing show. [11]
- We see the influence of diversified conditions in the more civilised nations; for the members belonging to different grades of rank, and following different occupations, present a greater range of character than do the members of barbarous nations. [1]
- Servants and officials, in unscrupulous collusion, had managed to transport her to a country-house belonging to the Mukaukas on the other side of the Nile, and there Orion had been able to visit her undisturbed as often as fancy prompted him. [10]
- The original is in the Villa belonging to Phinius on the Lake of Larius, and which he calls Cothurnus. [10]
- There was that in the smile belonging to the old pride, which in days gone by had made him say when he looked at his domains at the Manor Cartier--his houses, his mills, his store, his buildings and his lands--"It is all mine. [11]
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