You ask me to tell you in writing what happened when, like a fool, I allowed myself to be caught and imprisoned by the other fools at Deep Moat Grange, at that time the property of the late Mr. H.
Today we passed two large rafts lashed together, by which simple conveyance several families from New England were transporting themselves and their property to the land of promise in the western woods.
The best evidence of the change, wrought by this order of things is, that produce and every species of vendible property rose to double and triple its value, during the season of general embarrassment.
The first was the property of the Sun--that is to say, the proceeds of its harvests were applied to the temples, priests, and all the other requirements of religion.
The land appertaining to the second category was the property of the Royal Family; and the third belonged to the people.
Here, moreover, having failed to capture one royal treasure convoy, his good fortune led him to meet with a second, and the gold and silver borne by the laden mules became the property of himself and his men.
This method of keeping Spanish America as the close property of the Crown was one which grew more and more difficult to preserve as time went on.
To what purpose is our property secured, if our moral character is left defenceless?
The most effectual method I know to weaken, and at length destroy this influence, is to employ the commonalty in such a manner as to give them a taste of property and independence.
Don Simon Bolivar, a native of the country, possessing much propertyand considerable influence, has been the great leader of this revolt, styling himself president and commander in chief of the united provinces of Venezuela.
This town is well built, in a hot but healthy climate, and contains about 6000 inhabitants, whose occupation consists in rearing mules and cattle, and their property is in large commons, lying south of the city.
The inhabitants do not attend to the cultivation of the fertile country that surrounds them, their principal property consisting in the numerous herds which feed in the plains towards the Portuguese frontier.
Whilst I was with you, I restrained my natural generosity, because I thought your propertyin jeopardy.
It had seemed natural that he would spend most of his time there, since Papa had given him the Illinois Fur Company when he divided his property between the two of them.
And fighting for it will make it more truly my property than any government grant could.
Surely you would not let greed for wealth and property come between us.
You didn't know about Mr. Millard's property or social position, I suppose.
I told her that they were one of the best old families in the city, without much property but with a great deal of pride, and that they were very admirable people.
But I would not part with my dog; I had bought it for myself, and I liked to contemplate his fine proportions and admire him at my leisure, for he was doubly dear to me, as being my own property and my own selection.
A few years ago, a singular old china punchbowl, which had been the property of John Shaw himself, was restored to the club as its rightful property by the descendant of a trustee.
Very well,' he replied, 'then we will take theproperty from you, and the power shall follow it.
The reason he assigned for disposing of theproperty was the reduction of his income by a decree of the Court of Chancery, which had deprived him of two of his Jamaica estates.
The property at Fonthill was then placed at the disposal of Mr. Christie, who prepared a catalogue for the sale of the estate, the Abbey, and its gorgeous contents.
He intended to live there; but after investing his money in French property, he smelt the sulphur cloud of the Revolution, and retreated as fast as possible, losing considerable property in his flight.
When heavy liabilities had been incurred, but previously to the disposal of the first property he sold, his agent assured Mr. Mytton that if he would content himself for the following six years with an income of 6,000l.
He had considerable property at North Marston, in Buckinghamshire, and here he often stayed for days together, besides his half-yearly visits to receive rents.
He, however, sold the property about 1825, and died in the following year.
Commercial Road, Landport, now cared for as public property and containing a collection of relics.
What will you give me to sell that property for you, Browning?
Of course, if the property will not bear examination, you will, if nothing wrong happens you, be back in two or three months.
I hed been doin' right pert, and the property war a-raisin' every day.
Wedge of Gold," a mining property in Southern Africa, near the border of the Transvaal, which was believed to be a most promising property.
In ten days the letter came back with the endorsement on it by the postmaster that her friend had sold his property at a sacrifice and disappeared, his nearest friends did not know where.
A barrel of flour and a barrel of oatmeal constituted all their provision, if we except a small cask of hard biscuit, and a little tea and sugar, which were the privateproperty of Stanley and Frank Morton.
Very little, however, was to be found, as the entire property of an Esquimau is not worth much to a red man.
As an ordinary lowland peasant, he inherited the really valuable historic property of the Scots, their independence, their fighting spirit, and their instinctive philosophic consideration of men merely as men.
The first French Republic created, when it affirmed property and abolished peerages; France still stands like a square, four-sided building which Europe has besieged in vain.
One of the objections to the new Constitution in the minds of many people was the absence of a "bill of rights" containing those provisions for the protection of individual liberty and property (e.
Meanwhile, the states had been abolishing property tests, and universal male suffrage had been written into state constitutions.
It has been the policy in some states in dealing with foreign corporations to attempt to impose, under the guise of fees for the privilege of doing business in the state, a tax on all their property and business wherever situated.
Implied limitations on federal taxing power (compensation of federal judges, due process clause of the Constitution, no power to tax property or governmental activities of the states).
Taxing laws have frequently been attacked in the courts on the ground that, by reason of some inequality or injustice in their provisions, the taxpayer was deprived of his property without due process of law.
To many it doubtless will seem that any rule of law which operates to prevent the nation, in the great exigency of war, from taxing a portion of the property of its citizens is pernicious and should be changed.
In view of this property of constant-current working, the line loss should be made quite small in its ratio to the maximum load, as most stations must work on partial loads much of the time.
Because of this property of glass and porcelain insulators, it is necessary in making a puncture test to employ a voltage much higher than that to which they are to be permanently exposed.
In that most necessary property of a transmission line--conductivity--copper excels all other metals except silver.
That one thing was not the nature of the people nor their revolutionary outbursts, for I may as well own that commerce or property had little hold upon my thoughts until I found how necessary the latter was for my success.
The castle and manor fell to the share of Sir Robert St. Quintin on the division of Glamorgan; but it passed from his descendants in the reign of Henry the Third, and is now the property of Lord Windsor.
It is now the property of the Duke of Beaufort, Lord paramount of Gower.
This building is supposed to have been erected by the Norman conqueror of Gowerland, and has almost ever since remained the property of that Lordship.
It is computed, that more than one half of the real estate in this city, is derived from the confiscation of the property of the Jesuits, under legal proceedings had by order of the French government.
Possessing so much propertyand such beautiful grounds, it is to be regretted that more spacious and comfortable buildings are not erected for the accommodation of the inmates.
In June, 1844, the river rose higher than it had done for many years, marking its whole course, for more than two thousand miles, with wide spread destruction to property and life.
It was the property of a wealthy citizen named Gravier, after whom one of the principal streets that runs through the property has been called.
In 1835 Mr. Caldwell disposed of this property to the Gas Light and Banking Company; who, finding the buildings insufficient, constructed them anew.
Their propertyin New Orleans was seized, and sold for about one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
The timber and the game ought to be made the absolute propertyof the government, and it should be constituted a punishable offense to appropriate such property within the limits of the reservation.
He is so envious of other people's property that, no matter what he sees, he wants to buy it.
Peter Labazov replied to him in two lines: 'Neither I nor my heirs have any right, nor can have any right, to the property legally appropriated by you.
She could not forgive her because it was not she, his sister, who had given up her property and had followed him to Siberia, but Natalya Nikolaevna, and because her brother had definitely declined her offer when she got ready to go with him.
The son to whom he had given the property had left for a distant country, and his daughter had died.
You ought to live, and live well, and go up, but your property is growing less.
The father of Charles, the proprietor in our time, had inherited the property from a cousin who had died without being blessed with children, so that it was now a younger branch that was in possession.
The Duke of Argyll gave me leave to encamp on an island in Loch Awe that belonged to him, and Mr. Campbell of Monzie granted leave to encamp on his property on the Cladich side of the lake.
He married a Miss Crompton, who had a little property and was descended from the De Cromptons of Crompton Hall.
My mother left him all her property absolutely, so he felt no spur of necessity and became indolent or indifferent; yet those who were capable of judging had a good opinion of his abilities as a lawyer.
On my grandfather's death, the whole of his propertywent to his eldest son.
At my request your daughter will have all her property settled upon herself, so that I can have no control over it--thus leaving it impossible that I should waste it.
The young man died in his youth; his father and his uncle also died; the propertyis divided amongst three heiresses, and now for the first time, since surnames were invented, there is no longer a Towneley of Towneley.
A young lady, also a rich heiress, though not quite so rich as the other, had a property a few miles distant from mine.
In after years, one of my elder relatives said that the attempt would almost certainly have caused my father to disinherit me by a new will, as my mother's property had been left to him absolutely.
As a matter of fact, I believe that a minor cannot hold a militia captaincy, because it requires a property qualification.
Really, if you get at all alarmed, do not hesitate to come, all of you, with as much of your property as you can pack and bring; we can and shall be pleased to find you refuge from any pending evil you may be dreading.
One of my uncles said to me that the Hamertons won property in no other way than by marriage, and that they were almost incapable of retaining it; he himself had the one talent of his race, but was an exception to their incapacity.
On his way to Sens, Gilbert stayed a few days with his aunts, but left them for a short time, and concluded the sale of his property to Henry Milne.
My father inclined for the purchase of a farm, but Gilbert was afraid of a possible confiscation of property in case of a war between England and France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "property" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
