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Sentences starting with property

Property in lands or goods is due wholly and only to the labor man has put into it. [4]
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. [7]

Sentences ending with property

That's one-third of your property. [11]
Didn't I tell you that _you_ couldn't enter unless your religion, whatever it might be, was your own free property? [5]
But he whispered with the jurats eagerly, and presently he said with brusque decision: "Our law of Haro may only apply to trespass upon property. [11]
He is not willing to stand in the face of that direct, naked, and impudent absurdity; he has, therefore, modified his language into that of being "controlled as other property. [7]
It was Matthew who first perceived the ship, and identified it, by the card, as his property. [9]
In truth, it was at the Judge's suggestion that a blue provost's guard was called in later to protect the seized property. [9]
We were homeless wanderers again, without any property. [5]
This is in truth the natural and genuine feeling of a self-governing citizen of a commonwealth where thrones and wigs and mitres seem like so many pieces of stage property. [6]
We tried to trade him off at private vendue next, offering him at a sacrifice for second-hand tombstones, old iron, temperance tracts--any kind of property. [5]
He held them towards her with a beseeching gesture, exclaiming, with all the peculiar sweetness of his deep voice: "It is your property! [10]

Short sentences using property

His sole property was debts. [10]
Hence it was public property. [5]
Whose property is my body? [5]
Attack property destroy it. [9]
Henceforth our property is yours. [10]
With property came in inequality. [4]
The property influences his mind. [7]
Relics are very good property. [5]
It is a fine property. [11]
It is Mrs. Eddy's property. [5]

Sentences containing property two or more times

My father's argument was this: If men are deprived by violence of one kind of property which they hold under the law, all other kinds of property will be endangered. [9]
A woman who was not property, who resisted the attempt to be turned into property, was an anomaly in Ditmar's universe. [9]
If I wanted to take Dred Scott from his master, I would be interfering with property, and that terrible difficulty that Judge Douglas speaks of, of interfering with property, would arise. [7]
The account of the property bequeathed to the young knight was only too quickly completed, for, though the precentor's will made his foster son the sole heir, the legacy consisted only of the house, some portable property, and scarcely more than a thousand florins. [10]
It is true that he parts with the use only of the property and not with the property itself, and the publisher in law acquires no other title, nor does he acquire any sort of interest in the future products of the author's brain. [4]
The progress of society now begins to produce cases of the transfer for debts of the entire property of railroad corporations; and to enable transferees to use and enjoy the transferred property, legislation and adjudication begin to be necessary. [7]
It should rest primarily upon an acknowledgment of the author's right of property in his own work, the same universal right that he has in any other personal property. [4]
Nor should this lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. [7]
I believe that it is the duty of property to protect itself, and the duty of all good men in politics,--such as the senator here,"--(bow from Mr. Whitredge) to protect property. [9]
Although, as I have said, he left the bulk of his property, by will, to a public institution, he added a codicil, by which he disposed of various pieces of property as tokens of kind remembrance. [6]

More example sentences with the word property in them

You 'll find yourself a very odd piece of property after you 've been through these experiences. [6]
Any man among you who is possessed of any property may read the moral of my fable. [10]
Do you think you can better yourselves, on that subject, by leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return those specimens of your movable property that come hither? [7]
Nearly seven hundred years ago, that castle was the property of the noble Count Luigi Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova----" "What was his other name? [5]
I arrived at Wye Island in season to dine with the good judge and his family, and there I made over to his charge the property of Patty and her mother. [9]
I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
They were men whose opinions were their own property and not subject to revision and amendment, suggestion or criticism, by anybody, even their friends. [5]
Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
Four weeks ago, while making some necessary excavations upon the property, Signor Smitthe unearthed the most remarkable ancient statue that has ever bees added to the opulent art treasures of Rome. [5]
The telescope through which he was fond of watching the heavenly bodies, and the movements of which had been the source of such odd fancies on my part, is now the property of a Western College. [6]
The wrong against which authors should protest is in annexing to their terms of ownership of their property a protective tariff revision. [4]
But, if I were your wife and you had only property enough for a modest competence, you would scarcely fare better, through my fault, than my poor father. [10]
When those conditions were fulfilled, the control of the property reverted to the author. [4]
In reality, there were about two blocks of the property, extending behind all the houses. [9]
The stolen property was then easily recovered, and restored to the owner on the payment of one fourth of its value, which was given to the thief. [10]
Here in Memphis was the centre of administration of his property, and besides the offices for his private affairs were those he needed as a state official. [10]
I said there was property in ideas before Queen Anne's time; they had perpetual copyright. [5]
When his will was opened it was found that the property had been left to my mother during her lifetime. [9]
Judge Richard Lechmere was one of our old Cambridge Tories, whose property was confiscated at the time of the Revolution. [6]
Her little property was left to Rev. [6]
Hearing that there was a basket of corn at Powhatan's, fifty miles away, they would have exchanged all their property for it. [4]
She does not want that church property for herself. [5]
He was, indeed, very reluctant to sell any part of the land at any price; and indeed--this reluctance was justifiable when one considers how constantly and how greatly the property is rising in value. [5]
She was a venerable rack- heap, and a fraud to boot; for she was playing herself for personal property, whereas the good honest dirt was so thickly caked all over her that she was righteously taxable as real estate. [5]
I owned a vast mining property there. [5]
How comes this vast amount of property to be running about without owners? [7]
Nor did it understand that Carmen was the more venturesome gambler of the two, and that gradually, for the success of promising schemes, she had thrown one thing after another into the common speculation, until practically all the property stood in Mavick's name. [4]
The Hawkinses are under the weather now, but their Tennessee property is millions when it comes into market. [5]
It provides that under certain conditions she can pull the string and land the property in the cherished home of its happy youth. [5]
It was a trying five minutes for King, who felt as guilty, as if the White Sulphur were private property into which he had intruded without an invitation. [4]
Men do not treat me badly here, for I have property and money, and this is a land where these two things mean more than anywhere else, even more than in a republic like that where you live. [11]
I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town. [9]
Still I am told his property at St. Louis is subjected to the assessment, which I think it ought not to be. [7]
And men go to work to do this, to get other people's property, in cool blood? [4]
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread; and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope. [6]
Let's go over to the Secesh property sales. [9]
They were admitted to the presence of the indomitable Lyon, who informed them that Captain Colfax was a prisoner of war, and, since the arsenal was Government property, not in the state. [9]
He, too, tried to smile, but swallowed instead as he remembered his property in Dalton Street . [9]
I am willing to sell all that property and throw in the improvements. [5]
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]
Nobody had promised to say masses for her soul if she made this disposition of her property, or pledged the word of the Church that she should have plenary absolution. [6]
I don't mean to say her husband was a bad fellow; I guess he was pretty good; he was her music-teacher; she met him in Germany, and they got married there, and got through her property before they came over here. [8]
Each is done to save life and property, and for nothing else. [7]
What would happen to me if thee should lose thy property and die? [5]
Shame for consenting to keep his unearned titles, property, and privileges--at the expense of other people; shame for consenting to remain, on any terms, in dishonourable possession of these things, which represented bygone robberies and wrongs inflicted upon the general people of the nation. [5]
It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box. [7]
The property bequeathed to him by Myrtilus had been placed by the merchant in the royal bank, and he had also protected himself against any chance of poverty. [10]
It was necessary to fence our property or we could not hold it. [5]
The debts amounted to double the value of the property. [2]
The property was to be divided among various churches and convents, where masses were to be read for her soul, and her nearest blood relations. [10]
Some sayings seem to be a kind of family property. [6]
Allow no one to assume the functions of confiscating property, under the law of Congress, or otherwise, except upon orders from here. [7]
One has only to add the two columns up to see that the French house is bankrupt, that one-half of its property is already in the English sheriff's hands and the other half in nobody's--except those of irresponsible raiders and robbers confessing allegiance to nobody. [5]
He too belongs to a dynasty which will last as long as there is such a thing as property in land and dwellings. [6]
And all the time, hatred of his ostensible "uncle" was steadily growing in his heart; for he said to himself, "He is white; and I am his chattel, his property, his goods, and he can sell me, just as he could his dog. [5]
Owning the property through her Board of Waxworks was safe enough, still it was sound business to set another grip on it to cover accidents, and she did it. [5]
They read the threat, and probably without it would have respected the property of the woman who so kindly opened the door to them. [10]
I have since thought it a peculiarly amusing trick of fate that the palace of the Russian embassy--the property of the autocrat Nicholas--was obliged to celebrate with a brilliant display of lights the movement for liberty in a sister country. [10]
He felt as though life was suspended for many minutes, when it was proclaimed that he, Luke Tarboe, would inherit the property. [11]
We still punish those who gain property by violence; those who get it by smartness and cleverness, we try to imitate, and sometimes we reward them with public office. [4]
An advertisement of this kind warrants the person to take the property, if found. [5]
This life, he thinks, may suit a person who has taken leave of his property and the world, but he still clings to both, and especially to me, the poor wife who has been parted from him so long. [10]
I cannot but think that this situation would be on a juster footing all round if the author returned to the old practice of limiting the use of his property by the publisher. [4]
These "sage-freighters," as they were called, hauled grain and flour and merchandise from Sterling, and Jane laughed suddenly in the midst of her humility at the thought that they were her property, as was one of the three stores for which they freighted goods. [13]
In one instance they sold a man a gallon of rum worth two dollars for a piece of property which was sold some years later for $100,000. [5]
With the convictions they have, added to the fact that they are in a position of heavy responsibility toward the owners of their property, they cannot be blamed for hesitating to try any experiments. [9]
Be sure that they contain the creditors' names, their residences, the amounts due each, the debtors' names, their residences, and the amounts they owe, also all property and where located. [7]
I wonder how they can be so careless with property. [5]
The superior had therefore been unable to devote herself to Paula till this portable property had been under review. [10]
You saw that there was a supernatural property in the hair of Samson; for you perceived that when his hair was gone he was as other men. [5]
Is there, has there ever been, any question that by the law of war, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed? [7]
Any violence to them or to their property is promptly punished. [2]
They made up their minds at Moffitt that if they wanted their town to grow they'd got to keep their gas public property. [8]
The will testified their loving pride in Edward, and left their little property to George --because he "needed it"; whereas, "owing to a bountiful Providence," such was not the case with Edward. [5]
He would say, the will has been probated, the property distributed, it will be a world of trouble to settle the rows--better leave well enough alone; don't ever disturb anything, where it's going to break the soft smooth flow of things and wobble our tranquillity. [5]
Then they gave the whole property to her. [5]
But that is the way things always go; if you force a sale on a dull market, I don't care what the property is, you are going to make a poor business of it, and you can make up your mind to it. [5]
The next morning the three of us were off early for a look at the contested property. [9]
He called him the son of a noble of moderate property. [10]
He couldn't take the property with him, it is said; he was obliged to leave it to somebody. [4]
Then he showed the property to a simpleton and sold it to him at a high figure. [5]
The tailor-shop is the property of the Church. [11]
I refer to the property of authors in their productions. [4]
He will inherit the property no doubt, and Sir William told me that he had settled a decent fortune on him; but for Delia--no--no--no. [11]
It neither has the power nor the will to affect the property of any one contrary to his consent. [7]
No matter whether the patient is right or wrong, it is a great impertinence to think you have any property in him. [3]
For obvious reasons the more nearly this property can be distributed among all the people the better. [7]
The allotting of the measure of wealth would not be difficult to the socialists, because they would insist that every person should be born with an equal amount of property. [4]
He demanded from the law protection of his property, protection for those whose right to continue at work was inalienable. [9]
The Northeastern is the largest property holder in the State, pays the biggest tax, and has the most at stake. [9]
We swarmed up the ladders and over the battlements like a wave--and the place was our property. [5]
Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, she inevitably takes the next step to her share in power. [6]
The assault upon the houses of Archias and Myrtilus was a proof of this, for the latter was still believed to be Hermon's property. [10]
His property, like the houses and hovels of his people, was in the strangers' quarter, west of Tanis, and lay nearest to the streets inhabited by the Egyptians themselves. [10]
It would be the greatest happiness of my life if I could restore his property to you, where he would have had it go, and deprive that villain, your uncle, of the fruits of his crime. [9]
The house facing the garden of the Paneum, where Barine lived, was the property of her mother, who had inherited it from her parents. [10]
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
The amount of the fortune bequeathed had surprised even these wealthy men, for under the prudent management of Archias the property inherited by the modest young sculptor had trebled in value. [10]
The bondholders had the first claim on the entire property. [4]
As soon as the fact was ascertained, seven of them had seceded and had seized upon the forts, arsenals, navy yards, and other public property of the United States within their boundaries, and were making every preparation for war. [7]

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