In those African nations where they have already been introduced, they remain the apanage of a small, privileged, mostly urban elite.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

No further hesitation was thereafter possible for the ruler of Gruyère, who was thus compelled to take sides against the duchess if he wished to preserve his country from dismemberment and the cruel and ferocious devastation which the Confederates were now inflicting upon the beautiful country of Romand Switzerland, and particularly upon the country of Vaud, the apanage of Duke Charles 'maréchal, Count Romont.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference

In consequence of this perfection, gourmandise is the exclusive apanage of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Instead of the possession of these lands being regarded as the apanage of the spiritual office, the acceptance of episcopal consecration was looked upon as the special condition or service upon which these lands were held from the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

All his doubts and perplexities resolved themselves at once, as by some enchantment, into a lovely, unexpected chord of extreme simplicity; and Martia was gently but firmly put aside, and the divine Julia quietly relegated to the gilded throne which was her fit and proper apanage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian] Reference

Imperial apanage estates, pleased me well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference

"My apanage?".    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference