For thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It was not sold, but is the 'appanage' of the younger sons of the house of Dacres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Private Views] Reference

Visconti (not as an appanage of the French Crown).    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

This realm and city are the appanage of my husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference

Hence they cannot be claimed as an appanage of Toryism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

The New Forest is now the only royal appanage of the kind, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference

He made a despairing gesture that embraced all his pathetic appanage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

Ireland by its situation could scarcely fail to become an appanage of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

This false virtue is the appanage of none but weak and irresolute hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference

Scriptures speak, and which is the appanage -- in some degree ... the glorious appanage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Sovereign of Paflagonia, which country shall thenceforth be an appanage to your — to OUR Crown!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

A bishop with a regular salary, and no appanage of land and land-bailiffs, is only half a bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

But the fact is that this sort of life is almost always the appanage of a person devoid of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captive] Reference

Again, had she married a French prince and had children, England might have become an appanage of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

The duchy of Burgundy escheated to the crown, and John handed it to his son Philip as an appanage (1363).    From Wordnik.com.  [1347] Reference

Long live his hollowed shipmate, the Argonaut's shamrock, appanage of a participate of your motherland's assassin!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?] Reference

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf (pronounced «oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf») is the last existing appanage republic of the USSR.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives] Reference

And here we may just explain that the Crown revenues are derived from the property which has always been the appanage of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

It was a concentration of poetic perfection to which there was not as yet any appanage of apparel, of features, or of wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayala's Angel] Reference

This house was afterwards settled, with a royal revenue also, as an appanage (established by Parliament) upon Prince George of.    From Wordnik.com.  [From London to Land's End] Reference

Whereas Sara's heart was empty of happiness and hopes, and of all the joyous beginnings that are the glorious appanage of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Moreover, it cannot descend in the female line, and in default of heirs male it must return to the crown as a true appanage of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

I know to-day that her ladyship travels extensively in a very comfortable manner on the yearly appanage allowed her by the old Grand Duke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference

Even after it had ceased to be the exclusive appanage of the king, the umbrella was a sign of noble rank, and not permitted to the commonalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

The estate of Beaufort had long been in the possession of his father, as an appanage of a younger son; and had only been lent as a residence to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

The only alternative to Elizabeth was the Queen of Scots; her accession would mean virtually the conversion of England into an appanage of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

The palace, the park and the forest now became a sort of royal appanage of this Spanish monarch, which Napoleon, in a generous spirit, could well afford to will him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Ostrevant, which formed the appanage of their eldest sons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference

Tories alone whom the Prince has to thank for the curtailment of his appanage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference

He would then marry the daughter of one of them, and annex Scotland as her appanage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Forgotten Hero Not for Him] Reference

Prince William, you know, is Duke of Gloucester, with the same appanage as the Duke of York.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Adams had long ago hoisted the British flag and constituted his island an appanage of the British crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories] Reference

His reason voluntarily consigned her to the aristocracy as a natural appanage: but he did amorously wish that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

The word "Dun," the appanage of all dignity consecrated by Druidical worship, proves a religious and military settlement of the Celts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Celibates] Reference

How comfortable it was to find that Mr. Amyand, who was at table, had ordered this appanage of his dignity to attend him here for orders!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

What had been but the appanage of a corrupt and corrupting Company he practically made forever a part of the glory and the grandeur of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference

And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights in London] Reference