448 Verbs to Use for the Word properties

But it has acquired properties of which no trace existed in the original liquid.

" The late Mr. Brown left all his property to his family.

In the enumeration of plants possessing magical properties, Pliny mentions those which, according to Pythagoras, have the property of concealing water.

He held the property in .

Mustard should be mixed with water that has been boiled and allowed to cool; hot water destroys its essential properties, and raw cold water might cause it to ferment.

She half worshipped, half hated, the blackguard to whom she was married, and took no steps to protect her property; her son she alternately petted and abused.

But the millwright, after the dam was completed, having artfully obtained his permission to use the waste water, and fraudulently erected there a common water-mill, which soon obtained all the neighbouring custom, he had sold out that property, and resorted to the agency of gunpowder, which is quite as philosophical a process as that of congelation, and much less expensive.

The servant stayed in the house of the cadi and inherited the property of all.

It was not the custom of that age to confiscate private property simply because the owners were on the losing side, still less to confiscate it under local instead of national authority.

" "Which enabled the son to buy our property," Gifford said with a tinge of bitterness.

Having lost all his property, and even his clothes, he then staked and lost his liberty, and even his teeth, which were very good; and he will thus be compelled to live on soups for the rest of his life.

If I survive Mrs. Fitzgerald, the interest on it will date from her decease; and I shall take the best legal advice as to the means of securing her property from any claims, by George or his heirs, after they are informed of the whole story, as they will be whenever Mrs. Fitzgerald dies.

it's Mr. Canning as owns all the house property about; it's him that our court and the lane and everything belongs to.

By virtue of an execution issued by E.M., justice of the peace, against the goods and chattels of A.M., I have seized and taken the following described property, to-wit: (describing it), which I shall expose for sale at public vendue to the highest bidder, on Tuesday, the eleventh day of October, 1887, at ten o'clock A.M. (in front of the postoffice), at , in said county.

"I trust your owners, Captain Truck," said John Effingham, by way of turning the conversation into another channel, "are fully satisfied with the manner in which you saved their property from the hands of the Arabs?" "Men, when money is concerned, are more disposed to remember how it was lost than how it was recovered, religion and trade being the two poles, on such a point," returned the old seaman, with a serious face.

Moors and Arabs have been so maimed for life, on being convicted of stealing property to the value of a single shilling!

I do not see how men claim property beyond the tide water.

But the British government finally gave the two rebels the original property, plus thirteen years' rent, less the cost of government works erected in the meantime.

Henry VIII., having seized by force all such property as this in England, gave this Hospital to St John's College in Cambridge, which still owns it to the loss of us poor travellers.

It is, perhaps, unnecessary to add, that no trustee or assignee can purchase property for himself included in the trust, even at auction; nor is it safe to pay the purchase money to an agent of the vendor, unless he give a written authority to the agent to receive it, besides handing over the requisite deeds and receipts. 2696.

He ought to have divided up the property as my grandfather intended.

I don't know what to do to recover my property.

The law permits her to retain and control her property irrespective of her husband, and she has, therefore, thus far, ceased to be 'nobody.'

"May I restore your property?"

"Have you got some property here?" asked the Boy.

448 Verbs to Use for the Word  properties