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The inequity of allowing windfall profits to be appropriated by private landholders can thus be demonstrated more clearly than in George's day.
Congress has appropriated money to pay the farmers for their pullets and old hens.
A few, mostly the higher ranking among them, carried well crafted rapiers that they had appropriated in trade.
Many poets seem threatened by the apparently easily appropriated and fungible modes of prose and prosaic rationality.
Slaves also covertly appropriated food from their masters ' gardens and kitchens.
The Big Ship, Reynard, was the largest in the fleet of appropriated sailing ships that Claw's organization was running.
They appropriated the symbolic authority, as well as the physiognomy of the architecture.
The mass media had appropriated the role of the historian as the oracle of the nation.
By the late act of Parliament the space Z, which is half of the half-deck, M Z, is appropriated to the seamen.
The rural vernacular, for example, is appropriated not for its romantic idealism but for its structural and economic efficiency.
He appropriated the forms and even the names of that composer's most famous works, writing dozens of preludes, mazurkas, scherzos and waltzes.
Hoses were scavenged from wrecked buildings and appropriated from whole ones.
Yet, in 1914 the Navy appropriated sixty-nine merchant ships for use as auxiliary cruisers.
Throughout the period of conquest and migration Turkic peoples appropriated and assimilated the new cultures they encountered.
Seaports asked for three times the amount of money that the Congress appropriated for port security.
As of September 2004, no funds have been appropriated for the implementation of this Act.
He prefers the money to be appropriated for tax cuts for the upper bracket.
Money is appropriated for a two-year budget cycle during the odd-numbered years.
He doesn't seem to come into and fall out of fashion as much as he is simply appropriated for new purposes with each generation.
Third, additional funds will be appropriated for the support of public television and public radio.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As it was roche who had appropriated the flask, the man shook his head and grinned.
For this purpose, almost every amylaceous vegetable at once plentiful and cheap has, in its turn, been eagerly appropriated.
They had, so to say, appropriated each other, and yet there had been no word of love between them.
The Manxman may have appropriated them, but if he did so he was in a deadly earnest mood.
The Boeotian potter may have appropriated the scene from an Athenian source.
The word biblos or Byblos, was afterwards almost appropriated to books written upon the paper of Egypt.
A name given to sets of variations for organ or cembalo, and appropriated from the town pipers.
They had appropriated Corinth, and were reaping the fruits of their fields at home.
In absorbing the Dravidian tribes, Brahmanism appropriated the totemistic cult and incorporated it into the caste system.
His own clothes were at once appropriated by that functionary, who carried them into his cabin.
The coffee was drank, and the lunch for Andrews was appropriated for Genesee.
Down in the hall she appropriated one of Dick's, off the hall tree, and announced herself ready.
We could get but one bridle here, which, according to the maxim detur digniori, was appropriated to Dr. Johnson's sheltie.
I took the lead and appropriated the rustic chair under the elms, forcing him to occupy the stone bench in the springhouse.
The mesne profits you have received and appropriated since Squire Trevlyn's death.
Thirdly, it is uneconomical, in taking up valuable room that can be better appropriated.
No further appropriations were made until 1842, when a few thousands above an unexpended surplus were appropriated.
The nom de plume was their property and could not be appropriated by any other publisher.
He had lost track of his victim in the popple thicket, but had come across Kincaid's cap, which he had appropriated.
Their other real estate has been sold and appropriated to various uses, as we have shown.
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