Appanage

By such men as Tom Pargeter and their like, the possibility of material misfortune attacking themselves and those who form what may be called their appanage, is never envisaged; and therefore, when such misfortune comes to them, as it does sooner or later to all human beings, the grim guest's presence is never accepted without an amazed sense of struggle and revolt. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)

I consider myself as a kind of appanage to the family, for my ancestors for several generations were their _maggiordomos_. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

"Festus Bailey" came to be, to the general mind, an amusing kind of appanage of his own work, which was now taken as read, but ceased to have readers. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)

Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. ❋ James Payn (1864)

It was not sold, but is the 'appanage' of the younger sons of the house of Dacres. ❋ James Payn (1864)

It's clear that one 'fantasy' is replaced by another (the old aborigine as 'savage' accomplice/support for the colonial/conquest projectiles and today the indigenous histrionic as utopia/dreamworld scenes: necessary appanage of todays projectiles what every they might be?): Of court Zizek's typical nought is that narrator building observances our viewer of the tryst ... but if he sees through the narrator why are his activists identical to us idlers still caught in them? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Long live his hollowed shipmate, the Argonaut's shamrock, appanage of a participate of your motherland's assassin! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Isabelle de Croye, the Duke expects your Majesty will, on your part, as he on his, yield your assent to the marriage, and unite with him in endowing the right noble couple with such an appanage, as, joined to the ❋ Unknown (2008)

For the first offence, he was banished to his appanage of Dauphine, which he governed with much sagacity; for the second he was driven into absolute exile, and forced to throw himself on the mercy, and almost on the charity, of the Duke of Burgundy and his son; where he enjoyed hospitality, afterwards indifferently requited, until the death of his father in 1461. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Will the Holy Mother receive you without an appanage?” he said in a voice of scorn. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this manner the rectory of Willingham had always been considered as a direct and immediate appanage of Willingham Hall; and as the rich baronets to whom the latter belonged had usually a son, or brother, or nephew, settled in the living, the utmost care had been taken to render their habitation not merely respectable and commodious, but even dignified and imposing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Soviet Unterzoegersdorf (pronounced «oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf») is the last existing appanage republic of the USSR. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Sovereign of Paflagonia, which country shall thenceforth be an appanage to your — to OUR Crown! ❋ Unknown (2006)

But little was got by this move, for an answering placard explained to the unfortunate county how deep would be its shame, if it allowed itself to became the appanage of any peer, but more especially of a peer who was known to be the most immoral lord that ever disgraced the benches of the Upper House. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was a concentration of poetic perfection to which there was not as yet any appanage of apparel, of features, or of wealth. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He wandered thus one May night into Regent Street and the most amazing crowd he had ever seen; a shrieking, whistling, dancing, jostling, grotesque and formidably jovial crowd, with false noses and mouth-organs, penny whistles and long feathers, every appanage of idiocy, as it seemed to him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The patronage was a valuable appanage of the bishopric; and surely it would not be his duty to lessen the value of that preferment which had been bestowed on himself; surely he was bound to stand by his order. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A bishop with a regular salary, and no appanage of land and land-bailiffs, is only half a bishop. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This house was afterwards settled, with a royal revenue also, as an appanage (established by Parliament) upon Prince George of ❋ Unknown (2003)

But the fact is that this sort of life is almost always the appanage of a person devoid of energy. ❋ Unknown (2003)