78 Verbs to Use for the Word belonging

In December, Byron in a fit of spleen had packed up his belongings, with a view to return to England.

They hastily gathered up their belongings and walked on, talking of their latest adventure.

SwagmanA drifter, or hobo, an itinerant shearer who carried all his belongings wrapped up in a blanket or cloth called a "swag.

The steward collected his belongings and shuffled off.

Margaret sat some time in her little sitting-room reflecting on these things, for she knew that before many days were past she must meet her two adorers; and when she had thought enough about both, she gave orders to her maids about arranging her belongings.

" There was a good distance to walk across the marsh, and for a moment I wondered whether to insist upon his getting out and carrying one of my bags, I decided, however, that I had had quite enough of the surly brute's company, so jumping down, I took out my belongings, and told him that he was at liberty to depart.

In order to bring out all our belongings in one trip we had extra heavy packs, and the country over which we marched was very trying.

We hastily got together the few belongings we were to take with us, jumped into a carriage, and drove to the harbor.

In fact, he acted courteously and with considerable evidence of breeding, merely requesting my permission to lock the big closet where he kept his personal belongings and to take the key away with him.

Then, with lack- lustre eyes, she surveyed our belongings, murmuring endless commonplace phrases.

"To-morrow, gentlemen," I said, "I will send back your belongings, together with the tar and feathers, which you may find useful some other day.

You start "packing" at about 4 p.m. As soon as it is dusk the servants slink off across that turnip morass behind and drag our few belongings back to where the limbers are.

We must also get a search warrant and examine her belongings at that private hotel you've told us of, Mr. Appleyard.

He paused, read it over once more, and decided that he must go over the hill to the Planter's Bank and get Henry Hooker's permission to remove certain small personal belongings that he wanted to take with him.

The examples I have given belong to this class.

Those of us who had elected to remain in Brussels moved our belongings to a hotel across the street from the legation.

Having found nothing in Swing's warbags save his friend's personal belongings, Racey slid the knife up his sleeve and went downstairs to breakfast.

Then he picked up the banker's belongings, including the two packages, and tossed them after him with an air of utter contempt.

she asked, standing beside him on the platform while Elettra was handing out her smaller belongings.

In it she had placed all her home belongings; her spinnet, which had been her mother's (brought by sloop to New York from New Haven), found the largest space there, and her grandmother's small spinning-wheel was in the corner near the chimney-piece which Gulian had contrived to have put in lest his delicate wife might suffer with cold.

A chest held his belongings.

"Undoubtedly," said she, "in her lord's absence it is the wife's part to defend his belongings.

The white servants were moved into rooms adjoining their employers; Britt and Saunders transferred their belongings to certain gorgeous apartments; Miss Pelham went into a Marie Antoinette suite close by that of the Princess.

The planters have, as a rule, invested all their belongings in their plantations, and make the country more a home than our people in East Africa, who are of a more wealthy and leisured class.

for everything Which I have known belong to you, Your form does to my fancy bring, And makes my old wounds bleed anew.

78 Verbs to Use for the Word  belonging