Example Sentences

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Down the Market Place, and she was belonging to one of the shows.

From Dick Lionheart by Jarvis, Mary Rowles

In other words, there was belonging to this man a natural simplicity of style and a communicativeness which together have rendered his treatise a work of art and a cyclopædia of information.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew

In an ironclad he put them that was belonging to the English, and they sank that very day, and were never got up after, unless it might be by divers.

From The Kiltartan History Book by Gregory, Lady

"Seeing your name on yer bags, an' knowin' you was belonging to the Bossiers, I ask if yer might be a daughter of Dick Melvyn, of Bruggabrong, out by Timlinbilly."

From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles

She lost her money and the money that was belonging to the children, the whole amount was 35 dollars.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William