There was no sign of any fins, horns or other appurtenances. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
For the purposes of this subsection the term "appurtenance" shall include. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
'Is -- is -- a beard an appurtenance?' he asked in a hollow voice. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
Speakerphone:appurtenance resistors serpents reboots superstition!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why do we have a vaccine shortage?–] Reference
Speakerphone: appurtenance resistors serpents reboots superstition!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why do we have a vaccine shortage?–] Reference
'Not an appurtenance, William -- perhaps a detriment would be the better word.'. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
The level of the awarding command determines the appurtenance worn on the ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes or Villains?] Reference
And all the appurtenance of the automobile, including the -- What was the word then?. From Wordnik.com. [Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back] Reference
Above is that indispensable appurtenance to the pander's trade -- the private dining room. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Kwaque he merely accepted, as an appurtenance, as a part of the human landscape, as a chattel of. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER IV] Reference
He was strangely a local, even a mountebank figure, but entirely local, an appurtenance of the district. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
King, and Merlin said: "Sir, shall your son Arthur be king, after your days, of this realm with all the appurtenance?". From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Fabricio lives, (3, 7, 13,) and that inhabited by Count Olivarez, are severally described as possessing this appurtenance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
I had learned that this place was an appurtenance of the house of Teibar, who was a well-known slaver in Market of Semris. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
He got that new appurtenance of politics, an 800 number, and set up a phone bank on a rented floor in his tower on Merit Drive. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero] Reference
The fact of being born in a given country does not necessarily mean ethnic, linguistic or cultural appurtenance to that country. From Wordnik.com. [Pikeys/Gypsies would stab you as soon as look at you.] Reference
But Roosevelt -- and this was a surprise for me -- was in love with the Navy, with ship models, paintings of ships, the appurtenance. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A: Nicholson Baker] Reference
He was reinforced in his "sense of wine as an appurtenance of the well-lived life" upon reading Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited.". From Wordnik.com. [Less Sugar, More Sting] Reference
Within a generation, a society was destroyed, and the most vital appurtenance of a healthy society, social mobility, had gone forever. From Wordnik.com. [Whae's Like Us ?] Reference
Those motors will be sent off to a appurtenance emporium in Billings, where they will be washed, insulated, put in brand new bearing, etc. From Wordnik.com. [September 09, 2009 Meeting Minutes] Reference
If instead of moving outward it remained with the First, it would be no more than some appurtenance of that First, not a self-standing existent. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Not a single appurtenance of the scout was upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade's Double Dare] Reference
Another curious illuminating appurtenance was called a save-all or candle-wedge. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
Curious wooden slat dance appurtenance made to represent lightning and its motions. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference
One other appurtenance of a dining-room is found in all early inventories -- a voider. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
A seat of wood, in natural finish or white enamel, is a handy appurtenance to the tub. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
Dr. Blockman's school; every appurtenance; very complete schools, both public and private. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada] Reference
The full dimensions of this astonishing appurtenance began to be disclosed a few days later. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
"Aunt Hannah lot" -- a family appurtenance of the home farm -- and lay heaped on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
"A hat," Somerfield ruminated, "especially a Homburg hat, is scarcely an appurtenance of warfare.". From Wordnik.com. [The Zeppelin's Passenger] Reference
Aragon had no share in the enterprise, and that the Spanish Indies were an appurtenance to the crown of Castile. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
Indeed, that was as it should be; for she was only an appurtenance of my mattress, or self-acting bedstead on four castors. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference
The bags of bread we stowed away in the covered space about the loggerhead, a useless appurtenance now, and therefore removed. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
Its only appurtenance was a paled enclosure, there being no garden, the shade of the trees preventing the growth of vegetables. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
He was an appurtenance, and a very necessary one, to the Yukon country; but the presence of the other two was merely accidental. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
It was no mere closet, but a large, well lighted and convenient apartment, furnished with every possible appurtenance for the toilet. From Wordnik.com. [For Woman's Love] Reference
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