| 单词 | belong to |
| 例句 | “Why would the businessmen take Congo’s diamonds away? And what are Americans doing down there anyhow? I thought the Congo belonged to Belgium. I mean before.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Adams had somehow managed to miss the political rewards due him and catch the criticism that properly belonged to others. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A skeleton lay on the floor against the wall, like the person who it belonged to had died scrunched up there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Then she says, “We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. May Allah have mercy upon Soheil and grant him the highest place in heaven.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It belongs to a Jewish family from Romania who had a small grocery store in the Old Country and then came to New York and opened another, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Now, Howard Avenue is just a few blocks from where I live, so I could pretend I belonged to the Howard Avenue Civic League or some other fictitious philanthropy. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “You mean to tell me that car belongs to some Central High white boy?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not shy or anything, but I didn’t really feel like knocking on the front door of a house belonging to someone I didn’t know. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It sounds like it belongs to someone else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z However, it belongs to the same group of arthropods as the blue crab, has essentially the same physiology, and would presumably suffer the same effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe if you like pinochle so much, you could start up a club like you used to belong to. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z If a marriageable son belonged to the family where she boarded a proposal was automatic; if there was more than one claimant, vicious fights occurred over her hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He could not comprehend people that looked like Mr. Richard taking away the things that belonged to people that looked like him, Ugwu, for no reason at all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He looks very nice, dressed in the suit and sweater that have always belonged to him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “He belongs to someone, I can tell. See how nice and shiny his coat is?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “These are Lucy’s things, Mom. This stuff belongs to her.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I asked if it had belonged to her father. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I figured that since we belonged to the same family, maybe I would become one, too. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs L J Weidenbach had outdone herself, aided by a club she belonged to, the Order of the Eastern Star. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z For a long time Siddhartha had lived the life of the world without belonging to it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Schoolboy also belonged to the Catholic Church, as did most of the members of our family now, especially those of us who had been to mission schools. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Every single letter belonged to one type or the other. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But his head looked as if it didn’t belong to his body—it was small and round and topped with a fuzz of extremely short hair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t belong to any of the regular parishioners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I think we should find out how the experts decide whether or not the statue belongs to Michelangelo. That will be better than finding out about Michelangelo himself,” Jamie said. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe because stars don’t just belong to the Greater Jungle or the Zamani Region. We see them the same no matter where we are on this continent.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A central tenet of the Kodály approach is that music belongs to everyone—that an education in music is the right of every human being and cannot be left to chance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He knew I belonged to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, but I didn’t tell him I had witnessed the 1963 bombing and the deaths of my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Bumblebee belongs to all of us, and what happens here is important.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “It belonged to Ella, and will fit her alone, whether she is a scullery maid or a duchess.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “He belongs to the ship Revenge,” Buttercup said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At thirty-four minutes by his wrist- watch, he puts on his shoes and a hat that belonged to his father. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She took in the patterned tablecloth, red kitchen cabinets, decorative statues, and books that had belonged to the apartment’s previous inhabitant. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It is a fact that every American Negro bears a name that originally belonged to the white man whose chattel he was. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “But one’s got to make the effort,” she said, sententiously, “one’s got to play the game. After all, every one belongs to every one else.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is yours? I didn’t know protests could belong to someone.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But instead of answering me, she kept repeating that it was important to keep Uncle Jim’s land—land that had belonged to her father and his father and his father before that—in the family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The tennis shoes belonged to Grandpa and were several sizes too big. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z From far away he could hear some kind of noise, but it was too late to think about it: he belonged to sleep now. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It took me a moment to realize that the next voice belonged to Dean Moran. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A hundred years before, Boy and Girl Scouts had belonged to different organizations, but now they were lumped together. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The plantation that belonged to Edward Brodas, in Dorchester County, was typical of this section of Mary land, for one of its land boundaries was a river—the Big Buckwater River. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru’s confusion must have showed, because Summer shrugged and said, “Hotness doesn’t belong to any one gender.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We thought it may have been DeVante’s, but Seven looked inside and everything in it belonged to him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He was denied the opportunity of belonging to the white boxing clubs that had the equipment and trainers necessary to produce a first-rate, world-class boxer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dropped in the struggle with Aaron, of no use or interest to him and just left on the ground like it don’t belong to no one, like it don’t matter that it’s Viola’s. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Many of them belonged to Greek letter organizations like Delta Sigma Theta or Alpha Kappa Alpha, which Dorothy had joined at Wilberforce. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He had no friends, no other relatives — he didn’t belong to the library, so he’d never even got rude notes asking for books back. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z We all swore it belonged to us personally. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the Shackleton Range of Antarctica, it is thought, may once have belonged to the Appalachians of the eastern U.S. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Stanton had joined the temperance organization out of her allegiance to Anthony; her heart belonged to the suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They play-fought over who got to model the coat next, neither of them realizing the gray-and-white fur belonged to a real rabbit. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “You are worse than that. You’re a traitor—an environmental traitor. These little falcons belong to North America.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “You’re not in trouble here. It’s a simple task. You found a book that belongs to someone else. Retrieve it and give it back.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Thass right, he didn’t, because he already belonged to someone else.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z OPPOSITE: An image of one of the “curiosity cabinets” Maria visited in Amsterdam, belonging to the Dutch East Indies merchant Livinus Vincent. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Of course, he denies having anything besides what he took to the pawnshop. He claims the jewelry belonged to his grandmother. ‘Nothing wrong with pawning what’s mine,’ he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I showed them to their room, which Blanca and I had hoped would belong to the baby. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z There was a pet stag belonging to a Latin farmer, a beautiful creature, so tame that it would run free by day, but at nightfall always come to the well-known door. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, dear friend; this journey belongs to me. One who dies must cross the river Lethe alone. And though I live still, from this world I must be gone.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Who do you think this house belonged to?” he asks. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The pilot announced that they belonged to the Navy and the University of Alaska. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mother belonged to a Women’s Communications Club—women of different backgrounds writing letters to editors and sharing optimistic ideas. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But something tells Gogol the coat belongs to the girl, and so he stops and says, “Is that yours?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the room sat half a dozen women, all in white; they were much occupied with a beautiful baby, who seemed to belong to the youngest of the women. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z If I knew anything it was that all men belonged to someone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I grab another arm—I’m not sure who it belongs to, there are too many tangled hands—and look up at her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Well, these four chairs belong to my family,” Teddy said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But they belonged to a fiercely loyal Irish community that they could count on to stand together through thick and thin. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I noticed the faded porch with its ornate woodwork and realized I was at the worn-out gingerbread house that belonged to the stony lady who always sat on the porch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The village was on the bank of a great river where lush fruits and vegetables grew, but no one was allowed to eat anything because it all belonged to the crocodile. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Feral horses, belonging to my grandfather, ran wild over thick banks of water hemlock, and there were more than a few rattlesnakes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Katz was still wearing half a grin, but it didn’t belong to his emotions any longer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There were about fifty chimps belonging to this community. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z My bicycle is the one that belonged to the sentry Paul shot when I landed here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “These belonged to our ancestors. Grandma thought they were too nice to throw away, so we kept them in the bottom of this chest.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatrice couldn’t make out whether they belonged to an army or were simply common thugs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I still was not sure that it belonged to the Aleuts, but I decided to pack the things that I would take to the cave in the ravine. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Pale and slim, Forrest belonged to the category of scrawny men who are uncomfortable when women are more muscular than they are. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Some pictures,” Mia said, “belong to the person who took them. And some belong to the person inside them. Are you ready?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Until then, the yard belonged to their squires, who ranged in age from ten to forty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That house belonged to a chapter in his life that was no more, the chapter his mother had lived in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “But I didn’t mean to. I told you. It was like my hand, my hand—” Lissa raised her head from MacDuff’s back and looked at her hand as if it didn’t belong to her. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Gunshots, far too many to belong to a single firearm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was the only thing I ever owned that hadn't belonged to some other Swieteck before me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He barely hears Secretary Stanton’s words: “Now he belongs to the ages.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Yan Chang explained which ones belonged to First Wife and the other concubines, who were called Second Wife and Third Wife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Later it became clear that Marburg belongs to its own family. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the level-headed James Chadwick recalled experiments at the Cavendish “so desperate, so far-fetched as to belong to the days of alchemy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t know where Sandy is,” I say, the words coming from my mouth like they belong to someone else, “and even if I did, I definitely wouldn’t tell you.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z It belongs to Dartmouth College, of Hanover, whose famous Outing Club has been looking after it in a commendably diligent and low-key way since the early years of this century. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Aloud, he said, “It belongs to my dad.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The working class belonged to the AFL-CIO, voted Democratic, and did not take cruises to the Caribbean. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Jonas sat wrapped in a robe belonging to The Giver, the long robe that only Elders wore. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “Under the law he belongs to his father, ma’am.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Erickson and Balee belong to a cohort of scholars that in recent years has radically challenged conventional notions of what the Western Hemisphere was like before Columbus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “So I’m slaving in this miserable place for a name and title that don’t even belong to me? Who does everyone think Adarlan’s Assassin really is?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His power was greater because he belonged to God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z If he could find out who the number belonged to, he could try to prove what the phone records seemed to show: that Reggie was texting during the accident, or right around it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Harry stared around the bathroom, thinking ... if the voices could only be heard underwater, then it made sense for them to belong to underwater creatures. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z One of the faces belonged to Burke Allen. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Sam had belonged to Deen, had stumbled along after him like a shadow wherever he went. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She ran out the door, along the gallery past Mother’s room, through the rock garden into the next court which belonged to Third Uncle. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Whom the whiskers had belonged to initially—what unsavory animal—was a question that Edward could not bear to consider for too long. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The only human trace left by that voracious blast was a glove belonging to Patricia Brown in an automobile smothered in wild pansies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We came to the little Morris car belonging to Frank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He said the stand really belonged to his partner, who was out trying to locate some peanuts to sell to the winos of the quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “After all, the cabin boy is your ancestor. This treasure belongs to you and your family.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z This place would always belong to Max in my mind. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The men speculated it must have belonged to one of the rubber gatherers who had been out exploring the area. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And there were no lean, mean, powerful broncos, only a half-dozen pint-sized Shetland ponies, two of which, Orangutan and Sunflower, belonged to Charley and Linda Bloom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “This belongs to you. One of my guards picked it up after the duel.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I’d changed back into the outfit I’d picked out for Fall Fiesta and thrown on an old oversized red cardigan that belonged to Dad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Origin narratives, or “stories about how this all began,” help a group of people feel that they belong to a community with a common past and shared ideas about what is important. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She fished in her purse and came out with the camera belonging to Roy’s mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your grandfather saw fit to build this house on land that did not belong to him—that does not belong to you now. The sheriff is trying to explain the consequences of that.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It felt to him as if he had just undergone some powerful rites of passage and now belonged to the western mountains instead of to the East Coast, fair-haired college culture. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The pencil wouldn’t obey her, and she became so angry she wanted to snap it in two—except that it belonged to Baba Joseph. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if he had come across refugees from a Nazi concentration camp, and concluded that they belonged to a culture that had always been barefoot and starving. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The grass around the grave behind Gram’s—the one belonging to Isabella Fortune, Gram’s teacher who died really young—has been tidied up recently, and someone’s planted a little rosebush by it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Melita’s mother and father did not belong to the National Socialist Party, but they had agreed to allow her to watch the parade. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “The leader of the group that I belonged to was a boy who was seventeen,” said one Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z All black men belong to Islam; they have been chosen. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The marchers down south didn't just up and start their marching—it was part of a longer, bigger plan, that maybe belonged to God. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “These people belong to the past, and the past can’t be changed.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Others had tried to steal the credit for the geoheliocentric system from him but, properly, it belonged to him alone. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was good news that the ship did not belong to the Aleuts. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Hunt says we will travel right past Florida without stopping because it belongs to the Spanish. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Almost all that can be known with certainty about this initial group is that it belonged to a diverse, four-thousand-year-old tradition characterized by the construction of large earthen mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That plan was gone now, pages that belonged to a story he’d never write. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He entered another stretch of time, and now, lying snugly on his tongue, was a sugared almond, whose sweetness belonged to another world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “All these lands belonged to Stone Hedge once. The Blackwoods stole them from us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So I take off my mother’s church dress and put on a plain sweatshirt that belongs to Chantal and a pair of new jeans. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There was an engraving of Shakespeare himself on the title page, and on the opposite page, in faded brown ink, someone had written, This hook belongs to Mabel Hatch. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Those fireworks were ours. Everything that comes from them belongs to us.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Ms. Brenda is wailing behind them, wearing a black dress that once belonged to Momma. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Nobody knew why they were not allowed to touch this tree, but since the tree belonged to this man, they accepted the rule. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Maybe it belonged to a neighbor or maybe it was just a stray. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She had russet hair and a slender neck, and wore a robe that had belonged to the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As I walk to class, Tats waves from the end of the hallway, where she’s ripping off posters for one or another of the many clubs she belongs to. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He was cared for by a group of Jansenists, Catholics who belonged to a sect based largely on a hatred of the Jesuit order. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Reading the label we saw that it belonged to another Chinese family, Crazy Mary’s family. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He acted like the place belonged to him. I had a time convincing him otherwise.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I soon saw that he was on his way toward the cows that belonged to the old bull sitting nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You belonged to Magistrate Tiger? ” the cub said when Dragon had finished. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “Why spare any feelings when the feelings belong to a freak?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t belong to us. We can’t just take it,” Pita said, looking scared. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I would cherish it because it had come from my mother and because it would always belong to both of us, even after it found its complicated way to someone else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe you don’t understand how these things work. The harbors belong to the city, and we have as much right to them as anyone. We’ve all got a living to make.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now it belongs to the Germans, confiscated for their Fatherland. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He pointed out that Jews were not admitted to the clubs he belonged to either, as if one wrong justified another. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They could not climb the tree or pluck the fruit because it was taboo; udala belonged to the spirits. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The other dogs followed closely, going for the face, the throat, the arms, the stomach, anything that was flesh, anything that belonged to the man who had hurt Toomer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer she arrived with half the contents of the trunk of magic books that had belonged to Uncle Marcos, she was nearly ten years old. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The clothes had been easy, familiar; this belonged to a stranger. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The peoples of the wet equatorial forests did not belong to the Andean culture system and were not interested in joining. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master’s yard. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In the story of Prometheus, it is uncertain whether the men he saved from destruction belonged to that race or the bronze race. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it could either belong to James Parker or Reginald Bradley.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z An old man belonging to Colonel Lloyd, while thus engaged, happened to get beyond the limits of Colonel Lloyd’s, and on the premises of Mr. Beal Bondly. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I know how to explain. I don’t belong to your sort of world, for one thing.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He had no reason to suspect anything irregular, and yet he tried not to venture into the enchanted realm that belonged to his wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently this belonged to the couple, for they settled down as though at home and made no objection when Hazel did the same. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How could Stalin simply take something that didn’t belong to him, something that a farmer and his family had worked their whole lives for? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I’m not just looking for birds. I’m an eco-warrior. This island used to belong to my people before The Corporation pushed them out and took it over.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z So if people ask me what age group I belong to, I say I’m Ilkiroro. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z "Take 'em downstairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mine. Say 'Daisy's change' her mine!'." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z From the weeds to the carriage; from the carriage into this cabin that could belong to anyone. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the steward said we belonged to our lord as well. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z When she was younger, she’d supposed it had belonged to a maid, but at some point she came to understand that it had been for Isagol’s consorts, paramours, whatever you chose to call them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Equal human beings, or goods that belonged to their owners? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I walk from picture to picture, certificate to certificate, looking for anything belonging to my family. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But then I reasoned that it was addressed to me so it belonged to me so it was OK to open it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now, he had scrambled over the third gate, and he was in the field next to the one that belonged to Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “All the rats in the Dreadfort belong to my lord father. How dare you make a meal of one without my leave.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The men who belonged to the Nation were easy to recognize, standing in front of their storefront mosques with their bow ties and bean pies. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They stopped the plane on the runway at Kennedy Airport and removed the doctor, who was carrying some $650,000 in negotiable securities, and jewelry that had belonged to his wife. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He belonged to the same guild as we did and often caught the ferry over to attend the guild meetings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of pictures of the guy who this car belonged to—a glossy family portrait, each family member dressed in uninteresting matching turtlenecks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In order to help his sister, the young man agreed to go to her hut and to smell some of the things that belonged to the husband. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Columbus was not ‘responsible’ for the existence of America, nor Galileo for the moons of Jupiter, nor Hailey for the return of Hailey’s comet, although certainly the credit for these discoveries belongs to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The computer handed down from his brother Curtis was sitting on the desk that used to belong to his other brother, Mike. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It didn’t occur to Dr. Philobosian that the twisted body he stepped over in the street belonged to his younger son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Looking down at them, I had the unsettling impression they belonged to someone else. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “It makes no sense,” Mom said, standing over her jewelry box and staring down at the gold bracelets that had belonged to her mother. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Shasta was no longer afraid that the Voice belonged to something that would eat him, nor that it was the voice of a ghost. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Right now The Gold-Bug and the words she and James found belonged to them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Grandpop was wearing different shades, big black ones that looked like they belonged to one of the characters from the Back to the Future calendar on the wall Genie had been looking at for weeks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Du Bois got it right a century ago: “the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The pile was a hodgepodge of the things they had worn into Lena’s hut, but also new coats and hats that didn’t belong to them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z By tradition they belonged to Percy, who had killed the gorgons, but Frank couldn’t help thinking, What if I could use thfem? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z For example, peas belong to the genus Pisum, which consists of two wild species: Pisum sativum, the one that became domesticated to yield our garden peas, and Pisum fulvum, which was never domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously, so that the links between any two people, anywhere in the world, are few and distant? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Max stares at his hands like they don’t belong to him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was able to rent an ancient mansion that had belonged to one of the great saltpeter fortunes before they invented the synthetic substitute that had shot the whole industry to hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientists analyzed over 700 samples, each containing an average of over 500 identifiable seeds belonging to over 70 plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was no denying that husky voice belonged to Erin Wheeler. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z This community belonged to Poland, and the Polish nobles, who were Catholics, treated the Cossacks who lived there with cruelty and contempt. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Some Dauntless must volunteer to do jobs that traditionally belong to other factions. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It might have belonged to another age, another world. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Rita returned in an old shirt and shorts that had belonged to the Mellower. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She had four passports, four driver’s licenses, three wigs, several thousand dollars in cash, and a credit card number belonging to Forrest Smith-Martin that would do for buying plane tickets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Time, so personal yet belonging to no one. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t belong to her, just to the three of us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When you find oil on somebody’s property, it doesn’t automatically belong to them, but they do get a portion of the profits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He advanced past Amarante Cordova’s decaying house to another crumbling building which had once belonged to the Ledouxs, most of whom were presently employed in the steel mills of Pueblo, Colorado. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But this morning belonged to a different age. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The narrow, empty room once belonged to Cool Papa and Grandma Irene, but she died first and all of her things had been taken away. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z This fine instrument must have belonged to a mathematician who, unless on a journey, would have used it primarily to tell the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe they’re clothes belonging to Luke’s wife, whom I’ve also never seen; only pictures and a voice on the phone, late at night, when she was calling us, before the divorce. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The brush and the hair belonging to Deborah Fontanel Owens swam in my vision. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside were two scarves that had belonged to their mother. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I wanted to belong to these people for whom it was a matter of life and death.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If it had belonged to anyone else first, even someone years above us, a gorgeous item like that wouldn’t have gone unnoticed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Somebody hung a pair of corn husk sandals on the high-voltage wires by the commuter line. I wonder who they belong to. I called Brad Pitt, but he’s wearing his.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “It’s a part of the neighborhood that belongs to a gang.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It had belonged to another waterman before he bought it, but it was still lively and robust, like a man who’s spent his life on the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the fact that I’m still in pajamas makes it seem like my head and body belong to two different people, but I guess it will look good with the dress. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z My voice sounds far away, as if it belongs to somebody else. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Still another development in eastern and northern Australia was the harvesting of seeds of a wild millet, belonging to the same genus as the broomcorn millet that was a staple of early Chinese agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He made her feel as though the world belonged to them—as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for Cinnamon’s blue and yellow plywood apartment in one corner, it might have belonged to any high school girl. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z You could see at a glance that it belonged to someone else. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “It was a reporter,” he said, “the fellow from the County Chronicle. Was it true, he said, that the boat belonging to the late Mrs. de Winter had been found?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She belonged to another breed of men and women, another race than I. They had guts, the women of her race. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Whom do you think this box belongs to?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Advanced for belonging to a racial group ‘under-represented’ in American institutional life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And whatever that fin belongs to is huge. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Let’s go and play table tennis. I belong to this small private club in Victoria Island,” he said, f “I haven’t played in ages.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I’ve had the good fortune of shelter; this hut belongs to a pupil of Anatole’s, whose father lived here but is now deceased. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the papers dealt “with the history of cryptography and should belong to the American people,” he argued. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I’m looking for some cattle. They belonged to my uncle.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She heard the helplessness in Lola’s voice—it was the sound she had thought belonged to a duck—and in an instant, Briony understood completely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My father belonged to a loosely knit group of black families in the neighbourhood to whom tribal traditions were a way of life, and who sought to bring up their offspring according to its laws. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything that belonged to the Navajo way was bad, and our Navajo language was the worst. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “It belongs to the people we’re going to meet. I asked them to park it here,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z At times I thought of the tiny room on the other side of the wall which had belonged to my mother. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There remained now but a few young men who, belonging to no church and professing no religion, were scattered sheepishly about the pews. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ragear could tell by its scent that it had once belonged to Shadow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I wanted to keep him. But he belonged to someone else. The vet told me where he lived, so I tried to take him home.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The voice belonged to a boy, and only one boy would be foolish enough to call her name in the same woods that held a dragon and a murderous Varangian. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “So much of the land we’ve passed through— and the misery—belongs to him. He treats his people badly.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It felt good to have a hand to hold, even if it belonged to Peach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z During the day every cobblestone here belonged to the pigeons and the tourists. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s stuff inside that belonged to my dad. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe he belongs to somebody around here who’ll want him back.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It belongs to a dark-haired girl with three silver rings through her right eyebrow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Neither of us belonged to the day, so we lived our lives at night, and what wondrous lives they were. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes one can judge an organization by the people who belong to it, and I knew that I would be proud to belong to any organization in which Walter was a member. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The code was simple: when her mother had a braid, she belonged to Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If people know something belongs to a person instead of the city or the U.S. government they're more likely to leave it be. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke them too rigidly, with a demeanor that belonged to someone else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The boys lived in different neighborhoods and attended different schools, but they belonged to the same Mormon church. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They started the war in our Aztlan, a land that belongs to us by nature, and by nature we will bury them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “It was no longer yours—it belonged to the pawnshop owner.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z "Didn't your parents teach you not to touch things that don't belong to you?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In an instant he was bolt upright again, yanked by a hand he couldn’t believe belonged to a girl. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath the jewels was a stack of papers that had once belonged to the first Stanley Yelnats. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I knew that the items must belong to a ragman, but there was something eerie about the way they were sorted, as though they were pagan offerings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She belonged to a world so well acquainted with fatal gunshots that she had certain expectations about how they ought to be endured. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This house, the farmhouse with the big round table and chef’s kitchen, belongs to Emmett and George. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The festivities will take place on Sunday three weeks hence, on the newly acquired property formerly belonging to the Widow Cane. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They belong to a family of “inappropriate shifts” in which the writer fails to stay put at a single vantage point but vanishes from one and pops up at another. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A woman could not have custody of her children if she divorced her husband for any reason; her children—like all of her property—belonged to her husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Every one belongs to every one else, after all.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not yet. It belongs to the bank. But soon it’ll be mine, and then I’ll be able to make lots of boys like you smart.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It could be a birthday that triggered the new cycle or something more unexpected, like finding something in a drawer that belonged to her. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The longest gun belonged to the commander of the Biafran side, a tall stern child with sharp cheekbones. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From what little is known now, it is thought to have belonged to a hadrosaur, a large duck-billed dinosaur. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Biologically they do not belong to the type of organisms that cause disease in higher animals or in plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Or we stay in cabins belonging to other people or to the government, or we stay in abandoned logging camps, or we pitch two tents, one for sleeping and one for supplies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The blue and green houses had belonged to her family for generations. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But at night when the pigeons slept on the roofs and the people lay in their hotel beds, the square belonged to the horses and the winged lion that stood among the stars. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z He said he went into Chatham to see if the gun belonged to anyone there but it didn’t, so he was laying claim that it was his own. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He wore a black wool suit and a black overcoat that had once belonged to his grandfather. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There are piles of scientific periodicals and little china figurines of fat-faced children that belonged to my grandmother. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z When I’d remember that the turkey didn’t belong to my family because I didn’t have a family I’d feel that stabbing pain in my chest again and I’d start to cry. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z All it took was one bite, and the job belonged to her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z After that they fetched a milk cow, belonging to Rafael Maestas, that had bucked like hell last year if you zapped her in the udder—just before the chute gate opened—with a cattle prod. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A black-haired baby was zooming in and out of the picture on a tiny broom, roaring with laughter, and a pair of legs that must have belonged to James was chasing after him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “You just want my reflection. I don’t blame you, but you can’t have it. I belong to me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s the Rottweiler that belongs to a family across the street. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Setanta had a stick and ball and one day he hit the ball and it went into the mouth of a big dog that belonged to Culain and choked him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z More and more, the villagers began to recognize baskets and bags belonging to their families. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Melieses had emptied out a small storage room in the back of their apartment, and now that room belonged to Hugo. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Because I was promised to the Huangs’ son for marriage, my own family began treating me as if I belonged to somebody else. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The names scrolled in tidy columns through her mind, each group belonging to a different chapter in her life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He belonged to Troop C because the armory had a basketball court. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The three chords in question can be expressed as the numbers I, IV and V because they are the triads that belong to the first, fourth and fifth notes of the major or minor scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Charles married my aunt: he belonged to my master’s father-in-law, Mr. William Hamilton. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Harry looked down at the hawthorn wand that had once belonged to Draco Malfoy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He told his son of the sad dignity that can belong to a soldier, how he is necessary in the light of all the failures of man—the penalty of our frailties. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Finally I came upon a nearly deserted shop where, despite being tongue-tied at first, I succeeded in pawning a cup that belonged to my father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He turned and looked behind him and saw that the slope on which he was standing belonged to a range of far higher mountains. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “From that moment on,” said Alfons, “I belonged to Adolf Hitler, body and soul.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “He laughed and asked if I had any skills. From that moment on, I belonged to El Patron. I’ll always belong to him. He’ll never let me go.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s more, the overlap of notes belonging to closely related keys made moving from one key to another easy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The word belongs to the noun category, just as it always has; Sophocles did not suddenly turn into an adjective just because it is parked in front of another noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On the inside of my closet door, I wrote an epic poem to the new owners telling them the house would always belong to me: Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z While that seems like an interesting and innocent endeavor, the land they surveyed belonged to Indigenous peoples, who had not agreed to the Doctrine of Discovery. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z "With all these strangers filling up Winterfell of late, there's no way of saying who he belonged to." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Maggie met me at the front door wearing a Rockport High School T-shirt that looked like it had belonged to Fred’s dad and a pair of shorts that showed 98 percent of her compact legs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z No matter how badly the leaders have warped the Dauntless ideals, those ideals can still belong to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “It slipped my mind. David asked me to find you and take you to the labs. There’s something there that belonged to your mother.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Yet that brook belongs to a part of my life that is finished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “In my village all women be mothers to all the children. Maybe Tidbit belong to both of us,” Amari said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There were things that had belonged to Lina’s parents, her grandparents, and even their grandparents—old, broken, cracked, threadbare things that had been patched and repaired dozens or hundreds of times. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z From the sack of clothing Horatio brought, I pulled on an embroidered shirt that belonged to my father and a pair of worn breeches whose loose fit would hide the roundness of my hips. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I had become ... so unused to the sports and games of boys, that I knew I was awkward and inexperienced in the commonest things belonging to them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She focused her mind on the central skull and asked: What sort of person did this skull belong to, and why did they have those holes made in it? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But I had dismissed it as belonging to the natural order of things. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I find the leather pouch that belonged to the boy from District 1 and fill it with a few handfuls of berries from the plastic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Faint though it was, Taran recognized it as belonging to the bard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “It belongs to the community,” I told him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The reference to Descartes is simply there to put Hooke in his place by suggesting that the priority Hooke claims actually belongs to Descartes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The car, parked at the far end of the school’s parking lot, belonged to a senior by the name of Carlson. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe land shouldn’t belong to people at all. Or maybe there should be limits on what they can own.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The river, the ocean, the deep forest belong to you. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In the afternoon I walked in the bathroom and found my mother examining hairs she found on the floor, so that she could save those hairs she determined to belong to Lynn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath as relief seeped through him; he had been sure for a moment that those eyes had belonged to the Grim. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It was the DiAngelos’ property, yes, but only the week before it had belonged to Digger’s grandfather, and many times we had come to swim in the little cove to cool off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z In that sense, the Terman study underscores the argument Annette Lareau makes, that what your parents do for a living, and the assumptions that accompany the class your parents belong to, matter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We checked a few times, but we all had our pants on, so they must have belonged to the lady who left just before we came in. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All were well, having survived the events of the past year at an estate belonging to his wife’s grandparents in the mountains of Shillong. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We never butchered or sold a hog that didn’t belong to us or marked a pig following a sow that didn’t wear our mark. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. But I do know the Catholics would protect you if they thought you belonged to them.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the boomtown, much of the work belonged to the women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Until we became familiar enough to belong to the Store and it to us, we were locked up in a Fun House of Things where the attendant had gone home for life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "It doesn't belong to me! I have to return it to Mrs Phelps!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Will Thompson confirmed that he had the original email in his possession before it was sent to the student body as a whole, sent to him from an email address belonging to Ms. Carter.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z "Here. Perhaps your little birds will whisper the name of the man it belongs to." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Once belonged to the queen of Spain,” he said, “about four hundred years ago.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z His case notes read: “They stated that the phone # belongs to T-Mobile.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And Louie wasn’t always the only Zamperini boy who could be seen sprinting down the alley with food that had lately belonged to the neighbors. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I bite a hand that belongs to the Dauntless man on my right and smile as I taste blood. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z ‘Then all this strange land belongs to him?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Science belongs to the very extensive class of activities which combine the natural and the artificial, which are constrained by both reality and culture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Herbert belonged to the Hitlerjugend, or Hitler Youth, an organization of teenagers dedicated to Adolf Hitler. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z That is why so many birds live near Sir Christopher Wren’s Cathedral, which also belongs to St. Paul, and that is why the Bird Woman lives there, too. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z However, while Pizarro himself happened to be illiterate, he belonged to a literate tradition. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All her life, Koffi had been poor, saddled with debts that didn’t belong to her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was the guitar that had belonged to my mother. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z My heart belongs to MacGyver, the star of my favorite television show. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead they must have belonged to another culture altogether. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It goes without saying that these fragments of her—a shoulder, beige, camel’s-hair, the side of a face, the back of a leg—belong to women who, seen whole, are not Cordelia. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She belonged to a generation that treated policemen as menials, whatever their rank. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She attended the prayer meeting for Yule May that Aibileen hosted weeks ago, but she belongs to a different church. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn’t. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘This hole here belongs to Rabscuttle and myself. We liked the look of this bank as soon as we saw it.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to a fundamentalist Christian church, and has a “Guns don’t kill people—abortion clinics do” bumper sticker on her car. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “This is a very nice house you’ve got here. Too nice to belong to a lowly police officer. Your husband had money. So I’m sure there’s a car parked somewhere.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I think she said something about it belonging to someone named Carl. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone I don’t even know. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z That was the power of the pearls, I realized—What belongs to the sea will always return to the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘It does not belong to either of us,’ said Aragorn; ‘but it has been ordained that you should hold it for a while.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was the nervous mustache that did not belong to his face, the way he jerked his shoulder, the Adam’s apple on his thin neck, the bagginess of his trousers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He belonged to a big club composed of people who collected things like that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If two ethnic groups share the same haplogroup, it is molecular proof that the two groups are related; their members belong to the same female line. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The road no longer belonged to the cows. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "Why didn't you let me explain? Is it against the law to belong to the union?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, this isn’t your computer. It belongs to everyone.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “It belongs to him, and then we wouldn’t have to worry about it.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He was no Brahmin, sharing the life of the Brahmins, no ascetic belonging to the Samanas. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know that he doesn’t belong to her anymore.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Just like June was June’s month and May belonged to May. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That night they reached the next stop—a farm that belonged to a German. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “He. I call him Pond, because an agave pond belongs to him.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Flux snarled and began fighting whoever that hand belonged to instead of the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “You don’t belong to this house or these people!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, each wrestler belongs to a stable that is typically managed by a former sumo champion, so even the rival stables have close ties. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It belonged to Master Clovell, whose grave I just helped to dig. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Bet it belonged to another dog before him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks so sad and thin, wearing a black coat that belonged to Tía Laura that seems too big on her, even though she’s the same size as my aunt, or used to be. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It belonged to Mrs. Shears, who was our friend. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z That Pearl—a mile and a half away, watching television with her own brothers and sister—did not exist, that this life belonged to her, Izzy, and her alone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When he stood up and extended his hand to Robert and Tayo, his motions were strong and unhesitating, as if they belonged to a younger man. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Where you can remember the Nelsons. This belongs to you, Lou.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z They belonged to the woman who stayed under the bridge, with low tin walls to block the west wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z True, he belonged to that category of people whose ancestors had inhabited the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Przemyśl belongs to Russia,” the man says, straightening a little over his gun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Come on, we need to clean out what's left. The mayor wants everything belonging to the Spencers packed up and out of here by morning.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes when he looks at her doing her homework at the kitchen table, he thinks she belongs to someone else. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The gunman looks out the glass doors of the bank, trying to figure out which car belongs to Marv. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The territory around the mill house, at the risk of death, belonged to the owls at night and the falcons by day. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay's house. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I found a reddit account that commented on Butler basketball and so probably belonged to Davis, but that, too, had been silent since Pickett Sr.’s disappearance. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The painful fact that the pictures belonged to Maurice could not be avoided. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The tricky part was that no one knew who belonged to which. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They felt heavy, clumsy, as if they belonged to someone else. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now the house belonged to a colored man named Morrison. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You have his long arms and legs. But those eyes—those eyes definitely belong to my side of the family.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “That’s all I want. I live here. My name is Flume. I belong to the squadron, but I live here in the woods. You can ask anyone.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan’s house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was no nobleman, belonging to any aristocracy, no artisan belonging to any guild and finding refuge in it, sharing its life and language. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilderness Adventures will always mean belonging to a crew, a team. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z As she and Master danced outside, circled by clapping friends, he thought, They belong to me. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Because for the first time, in as long as he could remember, Dell belonged to something. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “The one his grandfather gave him that once belonged to Billy.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Just for a second I saw a dark shape in the morning sunlight—a human silhouette against the brick wall, a shadow that belonged to no one. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It belonged to someone in the shadows, at the edge of my dream. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z A few seeds belong to species traditionally used as sources of dyes or medicine. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The swan had been no ordinary bird—the skin belonged to a creature bigger than Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Nick, “the funny thing is, even though I invented it, it’s not my word anymore. Frindle belongs to everyone now, and I guess everyone will figure out what happens together.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The world record is twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds, and this belongs to a German competitive breath holder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It belonged to one of his fellow workers who had been able to get up on the roof of Number 3 freight house to escape the flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but we still have some of it, and who knows where it came from. Who it really belongs to.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “It belonged to a nice little old lady who never drove it over forty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I do know that room once belonged to Daddy’s dad, PopPop. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z It must have helped something in her dream for she laughed then, a light happy laugh that he had never heard before, but which seemed to belong to her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Down a lonely dirt road deep in the woods, we ate venison in a falling-down country shack belonging to some more distant cousins. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "For an instant in time I was free and alone in the dark night," he recalled, "poised between two worlds, belonging to neither." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “This is my mountain, too. The farm belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gribley, who happen to be my parents as well as yours.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The stars were circling the peaks of the mountains, dipping into the cane fields belonging to the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Quite old. He used to belong to my brother.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It had taken Will Hamilton’s word to make the bank believe that the money belonged to Cal, that it was honesdy come by, and that he could do what he wanted to with it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Though hungry, we are not allowed to eat the shrimp we catch because it belongs to the village and must be shared with all. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those belong to my madam, Mama. She brought many things from Lagos,” Ugwu said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At first I figured that it was the television, but no, one voice belonged to Myron. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z But the only phone in his small southern Honduran town, which belongs to an agricultural cooperative, had been disconnected. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Your life belongs to me, her voice thundered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The room looks like it used to belong to an old person. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Therefore, he could not count on them, since they all belonged to the Orsini and Colonna families or were their accomplices. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z It was my most prized possession, the only thing in our house that belonged to me alone, because neither Delsa nor Norma were old enough to go to school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I referred them to the preamble of the Freedom Charter: “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody looking at these tents would guess they belonged to wizards, Harry thought, but the trouble was that once Bill, Charlie, and Percy arrived, they would be a party of ten. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They stand in stony silence, with stony faces, staring at the young man who did not betray them, but never truly felt that he belonged to them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Perry murmuringly remarked that in his opinion any credit due belonged to Mrs. Meier. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “This has been on my dressing table for thirteen years, Bud, ever since your mother was sixteen years old. Now it belongs to you.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “I thought this belonged to that bloke Perkins at the Ministry?” he asked, starting to disentangle the tent pegs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z For by rendering feelings in words that a stranger can understand—words that belong to the public, this Other—the young diarist no longer need feel ah alone or eccentric. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to produce the black Mary picture and say, This belonged to my mother, this exact same, identical picture you put on your honey jars. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The wings of the seabird were huge. They looked like they belonged to an angel.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z “We are on the Domain. On his land, his and Ellen’s and Ellen’s descendants. They have taken it away from them since, I understand. But it still belongs to him, to Ellen and her descendants.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z That night Esteban Trueba lay down in the iron bed that had belonged to his parents, in the old main house where he had not slept in years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not make out whom they belonged to. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z For graduation, Papá gave him an old ring that belonged to my grandfather. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She hesitated, then added, “Well, not exactly just like you. You’re a slave, which means you belong to him.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z "I think these belong to you," I said as one by one I dropped the rest of the drugged biscuits on his lap. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, it kind of belongs to my family,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The room was familiar; it had belonged to me since I was born. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As I picked myself up and looked around, I realized that it could only have belonged to Miss Peregrine. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I want them back, Hilly. You took them and they don’t belong to you.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The voice belonging to the giant eye hummed along with them. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z My family lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow that belonged to Robbie and her husband, Terry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “The most beautiful white….But it’s gone now. It was never mine anyway...though it didn’t belong to the king either...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Prydain belonged to us before the race of men came. You drove us underground. You plundered our mines, you blundering clodpoles! You stole our treasures, and you keep on stealing them, you clumsy oafs...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Every night ten greyhounds that belonged to the Frenchman across the street wailed as if the world were coming to an end. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Granny’s birthday. She’s about eighty years old and belongs to the Portuguese tribe. How many people are there like that on the city’s computer?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But none of that belonged to me and my mother; none of the owners were family. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He listened, and in his face there was something gentle and Jewish, the knowledge of one who belongs to a race that is oppressed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z That danda stick belonged to the god of death and justice. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We wore the same size, and although he always criticized mine he used to wear them frequently, quickly forgetting what belonged to him and what to me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He's a Mormon and belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z A wall becomes visible, it belongs to a house which lies on the side of the road. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m the one who doesn’t deserve to belong to this family. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Dill wore a cheap black suit that had belonged to his father. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Back then, we all lived side by side in adjoining houses on a piece of property which belonged to my grandparents. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then he said: “Do you know those two horrible boxer dogs who belong to the couple who live upstairs?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This house belongs to a lot of other people now. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “Those planes belong to the syndicate, and everybody has a share. Confiscate? How can you possibly confiscate your own private property? Confiscate, indeed! I’ve never heard anything so depraved in my whole life.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “That egg is Potter’s egg. That piece of parchment belongs to Potter. I have seen it before, I recognize it! Potter is here! Potter, in his Invisibility Cloak!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z For about a week, we stayed in a borrowed apartment belonging to family friends and made trips every day to the ocean, to swim and laze about in the sun. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This task would belong to a group of composers whose lives overlapped and found focus within the walls of one great city: Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t cost you anything! Anyone would think the quartermaster’s store belonged to him! And now get on with it, you old blubber-sticker, and don’t you miscount either.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The brown leather collar that belonged to the family dog who died when Bailey was nine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They had all renamed themselves, the article said, adding that it was a right belonging to every American citizen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It belonged to Redbeard, the one who loved violence, the one carrying the tongs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It belongs to the submerged landscape of the things that are never said, which lies beneath ordinary speech like hills under water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Had thought he belonged to the school group. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z For a moment, she thought the shoe belonged to a Special, but it was one of the other Smokies, helping her up the only way he could. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The Prince hurried off then, and, after one stop to unlock a closet and remove several pairs of boots that had once belonged to Guilderian soldiers, he hurried outside. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “It’s my own dear name, and it belongs to me, and something is using it and writing it and calling me with it and my own name...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They send their kids to private day schools and drive expensive 4X4s and they belong to country clubs that have no blacks and no Jews. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The front passenger seat in the Wildcat belonged to Big Ma when the whole gang of us piled into the car. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Sure enough, there was her delinquent older brother, perched atop a bicycle that most certainly didn’t belong to him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was like Laleh belonged to that reality, but I was just a guest. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z These babies were born into a country where, unless you belonged to the Ceaugescu clan or the Communist elite, life was miserable. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They look to see who he belongs to. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The hands that lay upon the blanket could have belonged to a skeleton. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z After this was done, Ma began the work that belonged to that day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “They belong to the laundry down the street.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was signed with lots of fancy titles that belonged to the colonel and the commandant, and the King Himself. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yep. I had to hide it from your grandma. Woman wants everything that belonged to him. Even had to hide it from myself.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Everything within ten kilometers of Tam Ky belongs to us.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I could say that it was my idea, but that honor belonged to Jesse Franklin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Little things really belong to you,” she said, folding the fan. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Rit and Ben were now living forty miles to the north of Bucktown, in another county, but on a farm that belonged to Dr. Thompson. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And he despised them and was against them as though he himself belonged to the great house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The weapon belonged to the First Cohort, and the point was sticking out the front of her armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He recognized one as part of an old edition of A History of Magic, by Bathilda Bagshot, and another as belonging to a motorcycle maintenance manual. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I just woke up one day and realized it. Like I told that guy in the store, I have nothing to lose because nothing belongs to me.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Cope was caught at one point jimmying open crates that belonged to Marsh. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Anyway, this isn’t your computer. It belongs to everyone.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Now that he was dead, it belonged to Mammachi, their grandmother, and Rahel and Estha were on their way to Cochin to see The Sound of Music for the third time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The saga was over; it belonged to the Ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Still, I would like to feel like I belong to my father again before I... well, before it’s over. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z When David and I entered Alexandra, we saw several burning government buildings, beer halls, schools, stores belonging to Indians and Chinamen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She went directly to the booth across from us and slid into it as if it belonged to her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Besides my tribe, I also belong to a clan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched out the window, wondering who each load belonged to, whether what came out from their insides gave a clue to what they looked like. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “This treasure you claim to be yours? It belongs to my family.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Most such expansions appear to be attributable to the advantages that speakers of the ancestral language, belonging to food-producing societies, held over hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Missus Wilhelmina would say that it’s blasphemy to think something like that, when clearly the world belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I would not leave the place that belonged to me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Why should either of those things matter to him? I don’t belong to him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s the custom when hunting that the first shot belongs to the person who spotted the animal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It still belonged to Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from land-hungry Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Though he claims that by justice the bird is his, by the law of the land it belongs to Simon’s father, since it was captured on his land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z They look as if they belong to the same species, and yet they hate each other. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I hope it’s the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he’s sad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She wore colorful, billowy clothes and served meals at a massive table in the dining room, hosting anyone who turned up, mostly people who belonged to what she called “the movement.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Later, as the other children came along and grew, Samuel belonged to the valley, and it was proud of him in the way a man who owns a peacock is proud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But if there had been any paleontologists living 67 million years ago, they could not have predicted the dinosaurs’ imminent demise, because asteroids belong to a field of science otherwise remote from dinosaur biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The loudspeaker voice belonged to a slender, bearded young man who wore a black turban. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “It belonged to Ellen. I am her sister, her only living heir. Break it. Hurry.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z "That one belongs to the Hound's brother," Sansa had confided when they passed the black dogs on the yellow field. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “This wight worked as an oral surgeon. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the skull he’s posing with belonged to one of his peculiar victims.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The oldest Java “man” fossils—of course, they may actually have belonged to a Java woman—have usually been assumed to date from about a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At first Ashima is reluctant to introduce such items into her home, ashamed at the thought of buying what had originally belonged to strangers, American strangers at that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Julia was wearing a silk nightgown, and I followed her into the dining room while wondering if that same nightgown had belonged to my dead grandmother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I looked down and saw that the hand belonged to the quiet man in the dark topcoat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But he read the titles here and there, and knew that they contained all of the knowledge of centuries, and that one day they would belong to him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z After all of his father’s hard work, the automaton belonged to him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z So what is beneath my feet, really, beyond the lie that it belongs to us? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Many Silvers belong to famous families, called houses, with dozens of members. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z It would be easy to think of witchcraft, too, as belonging to a more primitive dispensation, inappropriate in this new sedate, cool, quiet and reasonable age. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was my voice this time, but the words still felt like they belonged to Yakov. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “You’re not in trouble here. It’s a simple task. You found a book that belongs to someone else. Retrieve it and give it back.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z These men and women belonged to all races and all anti-apartheid parties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But beside them Bregalad spoke gently in their own tongue, almost whispering; and they learned that he belonged to Skinbark’s people, and the country where they had lived had been ravaged. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The confession didn’t feel like it belonged to me anymore, as though in shouldering this possession, I had exchanged some of Yakov’s past for my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And it will be a tragedy only because Sam died in a place she didn’t really belong to. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In the meantime, I’d taken my gray coat from the closet, but it was so small it looked as if it might have belonged to my little sister. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She didn’t even know where she was going, or whether she could find her way back home, but the path belonged to the wolf now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The king had declared that large amounts of territory on the continent belonged to England. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Even though it was me who’d carried them around for all these years, you’d have to be a pretty big liar if you’d say those rocks and flyers really belonged to me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z "That picture stopped belonging to you a long time ago," she told him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “But in this case ... this doesn’t really just belong to you.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If they’ve got gold badges, that moonstone badge really does belong to me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Being a human belonging to the wallflower genus, I’m kinda used to swallowing my words instead of speaking them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Over in Britain, the world’s first national broadcaster, the BBC, came into being in 1922, ushering in an age when music would come to belong to everyone, everywhere, often enjoyed completely for free. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It belonged to Gene Johnson, the biohazard expert who had led the expedition to Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But he interrupted me with this long lecture about how this money belonged to everybody, not just me, and how I had to be responsible. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Maria had decided that insects belonged to plants and plants to insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My mother belongs to a book club and always reads the reviews in the Sunday New York Times so that she can make suggestions to her group. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, there’s a line,” someone said, and when I turned toward the voice, I saw it belonged to a teenage girl with glasses. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Doesn't the orphanage in the south of the city also belong to the Merciful Sisters?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “They belonged to the people of America and of Indochina, who had paid for them with their blood.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Give us—give us the nicest summer day you can remember! You can’t say that’s hard, since it belongs to you!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He declares not for the first time that theirs should be only a business relationship; whatever he makes officially belongs to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She had long retired from her previous way of life, had presented her garden to Gotama’s monks, taking refuge in his teachings, and belonged to the women and benefactresses attached to the pilgrims. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a Zamora. Giving up is not in my nature. I sent a message out to five of the youth groups I belong to.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “She belongs to the Independent Church of Prairie Lea.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The Moon During the day the deck belongs to men and children. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z By an unwritten agreement, the roof belonged to the people who lived on the top floor as the yard belonged to the people who lived on the first floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was more money than I had ever seen belong to us. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I sat on the side of my bed and rustled through the drawer of the night table, through the tissues and reading glasses and Christian Science leaflets belonging to one of Francis’s aged female relatives. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As if all the air molecules belonged to him. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He lived in a shack on the riverbank that had once belonged to his grandfather long time dead. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z My jacket belongs to the restaurant and was offered as a loan by the maître d’, who apparently thought I would feel more comfortable dressed to lead a high-school marching band. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Set back on the land were pens for cattle, sheep and hogs; and around and about were sheds and houses belonging to the men who worked the docks and shipped the livestock. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned that even though I didn’t belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A form of name that belongs to some form of a man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not even a pocket handkerchief. The house belongs to some white folks in Clarksville.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The call comes from downstairs, and since the voice is half whispering, it's hard to make out who it belongs to. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Half the lawyers at Sidley, it seemed, belonged to country clubs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z On her lap Miss Whitlaw now had an antique pistol which had once belonged to her father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Things in this house aren’t yours, they belong to us, and if you take them it's stealing. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “But you said that Luke belonged to him.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Can hear Daddy’s voice in my head saying looking at something don’t belong to you is same as stealing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z "That stone does not belong to us," he said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Most of them just look at me for a little too long, but some point, and some even say my name, like it belongs to them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Of every continuum we belonged to, this was perhaps the most important. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One of the closets reachable from the secret passage belonged to Felicia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z White racists-—whether or not they belonged to the Ku Klux Klan—-had through their actions and their rhetoric developed a strong incentive scheme that was terribly clear and terribly frightening. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But once, it was the only thing I ever owned that hadn’t belonged to some other Swieteck before me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z There’s no one who needs reminding that the forgotten book on his or her shelf belongs to me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Goshawks are protected by law, too. Sean Conklin, the conservation officer, said all the birds of prey are protected under the International Migratory Bird Treaty. They belong to the world.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead they were overwhelming, disorienting expeditions, either going to Calcutta, or sightseeing in places they did not belong to and intended never to see again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted Ginger to get the part, not only because she belonged to Nadia and not only because she was Alice's mother but also because I did not want Michael Froelich to have the honor. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Exuberant chants of “Boobie!” echoed through the room, and the world belonged to him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the passing crowd belonged to Fischer’s group, but near the back of the parade two of my teammates eventually appeared, Rob Hall and Yasuko Namba. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One belonged to a boy aged about twelve or thirteen, and the other to a girl of about nine or ten. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The shoes on them belong to Mr. Daniels. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z This meant that the fork belonged to Mrs. Shears. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In addition to responding to the government, I wanted to thank publicly the UDF for its fine work and to congratulate Bishop Tutu on his prize, adding that his award belonged to all the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t fight to keep the island, Crow. It doesn’t belong to me. But I’ll fight to stay on it. This,” he said, nodding at the bundle, “you can hand over quite easily.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “I am one of the family; someday this stately pile will belong to me; until then, however, I am here as one of Doctor Montague’s guests.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “The others all belonged to this friend of mine. I was only borrowing them.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z This arm had the weight and comfort of the one belonging to her father. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I wore a pretty lavender smock that Mrs. Evans had made for me out of an old dress that had belonged to her daughter, Margaret. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was the difference between being a tourist and belonging to a place. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It belonged to little things with green and black bodies that knew their way through the tall grass. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt funny sneaking into the room that had once belonged to our beloved Shirley. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Dewey Dell says it wont be sold because it belongs to Santa Claus and he taken it back with him until next Christmas. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z It must belong to one of the hackers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Kim and I had always assumed that we both belonged to the latter category. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “It belonged to a boy who was killed last year.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Like I belonged to them, but not as much as they belonged to each other. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This was a place that belonged to him alone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s Saturday morning, so I know who those laughs belong to. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Wrapping my arms around my waist against the cold, I cross the street to the house belonging to Mrs. Veenstra and stand on the steps, my back facing Mrs. Janssen's home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I wanted him to know who those bodies belonged to. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “But she has our hearts in her keeping. Now we belong to the dark and to the empty places. The light would shrivel us, and burn.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She has the tags for a metal frame bunk bed with mattresses that appears to at one time have belonged to a military enthusiast. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Jus is pretty sure they all belong to a gang called the Black Jihad run by a crazy older dude named Martel Montgomery. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Do you and Tam Lin belong to El Patron?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The land all the way from Buxton six miles south to Lake Erie belonged to the Settlement, so the ride was gonna be sort of long. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z If you take something that doesn’t belong to you, you are not just a thief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Unfortunately he belonged to dm later generation, of Mordred’s fashions, and he was judged by the new standards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Money ain’t everything, chile. And ain’t none of his money belong to her—she got ’bout as much chance to use his money as you do.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is theft of my property. Your labor belongs to me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I lean forward, my back pressed to the stone, to see who the familiar voice belongs to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Those swaggering boys belong to the Jungvolk, the Hitler Youth group for boys ten to fourteen. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Just two dollars. But I figure it belongs to you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It belonged to my brother Shawn, who’d quarreled with my father at seventeen and run off to work odd jobs, mostly trucking and welding. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Whoever those footprints belong to was here recently. They would have seen us lying here unconscious. I think we should follow them.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Some of them, I knew, belonged to the trainband and were going off to get their weapons. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two belong to my father, one is my mother’s, and one is Beth’s. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He eyed the green brocade purse that had belonged to Calixte’s grandmother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z To all his pleas she made the same answer, “I belong to him. Wherever he is I keep my love for him.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice belongs to Lou Johnson, the starting running back on the high school varsity team. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t belong to the family; it belongs to Father.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For nine years he would belong to the Ship Chandlery of Ropes and Hodges. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bought this book of spells at a collector’s auction last year. It once belonged to Madame Violet, one of the most famous illusionists who’s ever lived.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The Roths have lived here since the 1800s, and half of the tombstones in the cemetery belong to their ancestors. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It had never belonged to us, we had never prospered to the extent where we could buy, and Nathan, himself the son of a landless man, had inherited nothing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was at the end of South Street, beyond the tollgate, on land that belonged to Senator Seward. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “You forget how much she belongs to Highbury. I have heard her every year of our lives since we both began. She plays charmingly.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Rosaleen was in the honey house washing a new shipment of mason jars, a job that belonged to me, but she’d volunteered for it, seeing how badly I needed to write everything out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is not! This house belongs to us!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The plaid, the crest, the motto, and the school colors all belong to Mr. MacLeod’s personal clan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “You know, this land belonged to the fish before it belonged to us. I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp. He will come to rule again!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It belonged to my mother. On the back it says Tiburon, South Carolina.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My body feels like it's in a dream, like it half belongs to someone else. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It belonged to Joseph, who sat behind her in class. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Every one belongs to every . . .” Her voice suddenly died into an almost inaudible breathless croaking. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The ladders belonged to an enterprising Sherpa from the village of Gorak Shep who turned a nice profit by renting them out each season. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The body belonged to a woman of an indeterminate age. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She knew just where it was, that precious set that had belonged to Deydey’s grandfather, the man who had taught him this chimookoman game. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Had it come from a vicious beast, hunted down by warriors, or had it belonged to something innocent and afraid? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Within a few blocks of our house were half a dozen crazy women and girls, all belonging to village families. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I wake up and find the face that belongs to it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z She and Pet looked down at it, and she heard a gasp slip out of her mouth, as if it belonged to someone else. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Peugeot belongs to a particular genre of legal fictions called ‘limited liability companies’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured Roy Lee would get up and walk out rather than belong to anything with Quentin in it, but instead he sat up on the bed and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I am only a guest there. The castle and the town belong to Lady Dustin, and she cannot abide you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Because of my color, they thought I was a colored person, but speaking the same languages meant that I belonged to their tribe. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Many chemicals used as pesticides — herbicides as well as insecticides — belong to this group of substances that have the ability to damage the chromosomes, interfere with normal cell division, or cause mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The goods— belonging to migrant workers living alone in the city—were being sent to wives back in the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The cabin belonged to a family of free Negroes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the one place he could hold to, fix upon, identify as belonging to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to throw it away—give it to the next old crone I saw—anything to gain my relief; but the money belonged to Sacrabani, not to me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When I said that to the officer, though, his answer shocked me: “This isn’t Garland anymore. The land belongs to Skyline Realty and Development. And you’re driving without a license.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z So today his time belonged to the New London school superintendent. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The eyes belonged to an Arctic fox and she walked toward him upright to scare him away. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mitraillette’s pullover does fit, and I have a many-times patched over wool jacket that once belonged to her brother, but the combination of these warm outer garments and the dowdy frock looks dead weird. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Post Office Box 34 is the only place in the world that belongs to me. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z It belongs to Day—fingerprints told us that much. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z ‘I will all right if he’s down there tomorrow. But you leave that bag alone. It don’t belong to that sponger any more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Yet as I lay there on the high rock, looking at the stars, I thought about the ship which belonged to the white men. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his curly hair and splatter of freckles could have belonged to any boy in her village. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The second grill belonged to the same room. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The creatures returned to the attack: botched beasts, belonging to ages before bird or dragon or man, long since forgotten by the daylight but recalled by the ancient, malign, unforgetful power of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Belonged. These things belonged to her. We’re coming up on a year in December. I’m not lettin’ all this sit here like some kind of shrine.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The bone clearly didn’t belong to any species of creature still alive, certainly not in New Jersey. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This too belonged to a man — but it was strangely high-pitched, and cold as a sudden blast of icy wind. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As I walked back to the kitchen, I decided I would begin to mark off my days at Central High on the big wall calendar that belonged to Grandma. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In legal scholar Ricardo Bascuas’s words, “Operation Pipeline is exactly what the Framers meant to prohibit: a federally-run general search program that targets people without cause for suspicion, particularly those who belong to disfavored groups.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I laugh and turn on my back, pulling Shiloh down onto my chest, and for a while we both lay there, panting, enjoying the sunshine, belonging to each other. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That looks like it belonged to a grandparent. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He also said that they had once belonged to his wife—and that was an interesting idea in itself, to think that the lonely old Professor had once had a wife. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheep were at the gates of the city, in a stable that belonged to a friend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The suitcase also holds a Bible that belonged to Chris when he was a child, even though, she allows, “I haven’t prayed since we lost him.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a large collection of books belonging to Justice Strauss. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Let us say rather,” said 03-01, “that he belongs to all of us.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Bridge thought that intruder drills belonged to the very small set of things that are even less fun than French. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Naturally, he had no way of knowing they belonged to Clyde Livingston. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate: too short jeans, a shabby, overlarge coat that might have belonged to a grown man, an odd smocklike shirt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He has no idea that the voice in my head, the voice coming through his Walkman, belongs to Hannah Baker. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “A boy that belongs to a minister should know how to answer a lady” ‘‘Yes, ma’am. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z In the darkness, Keith and Jim could make out oncoming headlights, but not the big, heavy trucks the lights belonged to. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Like the glass paperweight or Mr. Charrington’s half-remembered rhymes, it belonged to the vanished, romantic past, the olden time as he liked to call it in his secret thoughts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z On the wall hung a huge tinted photograph of Samuel, which had captured a cold and aloof dignity, a scrubbed and dressed remoteness, which did not belong to him living. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Whoever that voice belongs to, she is pulling the strings; she is responsible for Eric’s leadership position; she is the one who wants me dead. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Somewhere inside was an old bronze clapper belonging to the bell of the Desert Gold, the ship that had gone down with King Fieldspar on his return from the Trove. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “I agree, Angel. And like us, everyone has special and unique homes. Everyone belongs to social groups, has special relationships.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Aside from a little food, the couple had taken nothing that belonged to the house, and furthermore, both parties had left letters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘Then it belongs to you, and not to me at all!’ cried Frodo in amazement, springing to his feet, as if he expected the Ring to be demanded at once. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The hand belonged to a barefoot little boy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It’s the one thing that looks out of place, and so I pick it up and exchange it for the offering I’ve brought—a butterfly ring that once belonged to Eleanor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The 1910 Lincoln Head penny had belonged to Papa, but he gave it to me. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z William Levitt regarded the land he had acquired as frozen in time, belonging to a previous century, and marveled that such a backwater existed in the corridor between New York and Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z That night belongs to just me and my coach. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The farm would still belong to us and one day we could return to it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z More and more small valuables and family keepsakes belonging to the mice and their woodland guests vanished into the thief’s sack. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple. The wood—and the spring—belong to me now.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z One or two other hobbits belonging to the farm-household came in. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “So, whatever money we earn belongs to all of us, equally, right?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Mina leads me through the back exit, which leads to a small courtyard, and then through a gate belonging to a neighboring building. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then the pleasures and sorrows of his life will belong to him again. Until then, some of them fall to me. May I request that you come to your point?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Had it really once belonged to his father? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “But every one belongs to every one else,” he concluded, citing the hypnoptedic proverb. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a mess in my head—a mess of threads belonging to Jasmine and my brother and Sandy and that tent in the backyard and all the dragonflies. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z If during the year one of us coveted something that belonged to another, we might get the temporary loan of that item for January of the new year. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day brought compromise so basic neither one would talk about it, as though such prideless friendship belonged to a realm past conversation. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle was against any tampering with business—even those belonging to demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I don’t have, the gun, some Lobsterback will kill me. Besides, it belongs to the family, doesn’t it? I have as much right to it as anybody, don’t I?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not mine. I’m delivering it to my nurse on board. It belongs to her.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In Holmes’s office they found a bank book belonging to a woman named Lucy Burbank. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He did not belong to the bright landscape, he should be standing on the steps of a gaunt cathedral, his cloak flung back, while a beggar at his feet scrambled for gold coins. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z This hut with all its memories was to be taken from us, for it stood on land that belonged to another. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice belonged to a lanky, long-armed man with woolly, silvery hair. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Down the way, I recognized one boat in particular: it belonged to Johnny Cakes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z "This light doesn't belong to you," he said. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She was serene and purposeful as always when death turned his attention to someone who belonged to her, as she was when death breathed in her father’s wispy hair and blew the strands about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z How fortunate to belong to this family sheltered from those lost in ignorance and darkness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Handing the heavy stuff back to the people it belongs to. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Grandma never mentioned that it used to belong to someone else. But then again, Grandma didn’t talk about a lot of things.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Besides, the rule at Garland back then was that we all belonged to each other, and it didn’t matter who was related by blood. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He belonged to no one and had nothing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z ‘And they who dwell beyond the Sea would not receive it: for good or ill it belongs to Middle-earth; it is for us who still dwell here to deal with it.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Mine? Certainly not. I don’t know who in blazes they belong to, nor do I much care to know.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “It belongs to him, and then we wouldn’t have to worry about it.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Now the Executioner belonged to Cannek Reed, captain of the Current of Faith. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z That’s the place that belongs to the chap who had that divorce case we read about. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Yeah, they were all my Legos that Yvonne had brought me, but that room didn’t really belong to me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Even in the privacy of his mind, that promise felt like it belonged to someone else. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z People in Andean societies viewed themselves as belonging to family lineages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And he knew a second thing that he did not know how to live with: neither of them belonged to him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It used to belong to your grandfather. He was always working on it. I thought you might like it.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The tractor I was driving belonged to George Naylor, a big man with a moon face and a scraggly gray beard. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The one that belongs to him is just as valid.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “Word has it,” Marie-Laure overhears one taxidermist telling another, “the stone is from Japan, it’s very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the eleventh century.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “No, I never knew them. They were Inner Party members. Besides, they were far older men than I was. They belonged to the old days, before the Revolution. I barely knew them by sight.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In racial science lessons, children were taught Aryans belonged to a superior master race that was intended to rule Europe. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Nothing here belongs to us, just whoever pays the rent. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She watched her hand move back and forth like it didn’t belong to her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And besides, she thought as she snuggled into the grass, this place must belong to supernatural beings who wouldn’t allow wicked things to stay. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The mirror’s reflection also revealed that the room does not belong to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Wait a minute, you don’t have to work for him. You’re not supposed to belong to him.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She always liked the rhythm of the words of the pledge—it made her feel like she belonged to something important. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “One day,” Nhamo said when she had recovered, “a hen belonging to the junior wife wandered into the senior wife’s hut and broke three pots. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t belong to any of those groups. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Shears was in the taxi and he got out of the taxi and threw a big cardboard box of things belonging to Mother onto the lawn. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The rest have locks on them, some very ancient indeed, belonging to officers who quit or transferred or died or who knows what. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An example of a carcinogen belonging to the group of new, organic pesticides is a chemical widely used against mites and ticks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He belonged to the darkness—the darkness from which he had thought to flee had claimed him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Urethane belongs to the group of chemicals called carbamates, from which an increasing number of insecticides and other agricultural chemicals are drawn. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She identified Howard’s overcoat and his scarf pin, and a crochet needle that belonged to Alice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This defense seemed to me to belong to an earlier time, before World War II, when higher education could ensure positions of social power and prominence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had, of course, seen plenty of bare limbs before, belonging to the American and European ladies who took his tours. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z His letter set down the basic rights that in his view belonged to everyone on American soil—the first formal call for liberty in the colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The Fleece should be used to heal! It belongs to the children of the gods!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The cows all belong to different cattle families, and those in the same family look alike. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Cabot made his way down the gravel road slowly, and after passing two houses on the right, realized that he’d forgotten to ask the grocery store kid which house belonged to Cullen Witter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The other of the pair belonged to Jim, and the couple often used them in tandem to play World of War- craft together. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We said we belonged to a “group,” but really each group acted like a family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “One night, when this boy’s mother wasn’t watching, he sneaked out of their cave and stole some cattle that belonged to Apollo.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt quite uneasy, though I had been there once or twice before; it was a private place, and everything in it belonged to two dead people. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And they smile and look at me with eyes that know we belong to the same club. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z They were even despairing faces: as if the people they belonged to had done dreadful things and also suffered dread ful things. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Women could not keep their wages; if a woman worked, her pay belonged to her husband or her father. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Eventually, it became dangerous for Germans to have friends who were Jewish or who belonged to the Jehovah’s Witness faith. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Nothing about her face gave away her age except her eyes, which belonged to another time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He placed his hands on the sides of Pong's chattering jaw and turned his face one way and then the other, as though he weren't quite convinced the face really belonged to his old friend. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Principle is sure to win—injustice and evil have no power back of them for power belongs to good,” Paul wrote in a letter to her sister, explaining the campaign. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They had to be cross-pollinated by another plant belonging to a genetically different variety of their species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I back up far enough to see who the foot belongs to. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z "Her mother belonged to the same club we did," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The duvet is in a studio that belongs to my first husband, Jon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With my eyes still closed, I cross the room I know better than my own and drop down into the old La-Z-Boy that belonged to my dad. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The entire day had belonged to them and to her story. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like Pollard, he seemed to have lost the need to belong to any place in particular. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The extensive cedar, cypress, and oak groves now belonging to her would provide the raw materials that Mark Antony required. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She was like a wild creature, by turns furtive and barging, ever unwashed, and with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The mayor had decided to limit dog ownership to two dogs per family, even though the attacking dog hadn’t belonged to anybody at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The next house belonged to my favorite client of Ma’s. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Turner was a milky sort of a woman that belonged to child bed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She sat by the window—somebody had stuck a blob of chewed gum on the pane—and spent long minutes looking again at the Social Security card and driver’s license that belonged to Ngozi Okonkwo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In a pair of baggy pants that used to belong to Mr. Potter and a sweatshirt he’d found in the woods, Georgie looked smaller than ever. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z As if the toy boat had belonged to the King’s fleet, Robin thought. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Because they used to belong to the states. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Just seeing him has filled me with a sense of finally belonging to this place. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His toes, which peeked through leather slippers, seemed feminine, perhaps because they were so clean; they belonged to feet that always wore shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was good to have something that had belonged to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Philip broke a vase that belonged to Anne Boleyn, Gran ordered a communications lockdown, and Mum hasn’t spoken to anyone,” Henry tells him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “What happened? Did you fall off a motorbike belonging to one of your Stanford boyfriends? Or did the evil coach of your track team put a hit out on you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He wanders past graves belonging to philosophers and poets, authors whose books he knows from his grandmother’s library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z So many of my people today are languishing in refugee camps, belonging to no country, always in limbo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The other one made little slashes on the skin of her thigh, using an old- fashioned straight razor that had belonged to her grandfather. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The ears belonged to a very hungry badger. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Goodness,” she gasped, “do all these belong to you, child? You can just set them there, I suppose, and I’ll ask my husband about them. Can I offer you and your men some breakfast, sir?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Second, it is claimed that the doctrine of signs/signatures belongs to ‘low’ disciplines such as medicine and alchemy; no mention is made of the law or theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But I want to know she’s here, that she belongs to our family one hundred percent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Now he’s laid out on the sailboat of the gentle sea, smiling and calm, while I write at the blond wood table that belonged to my grandmother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It belongs to my boss,” said Shadow, surprising himself with the fluency and ease of his lies. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The white community was particularly rattled when they learned that the car driven by the young firebombers belonged to the local antipoverty agency—and was assigned to Howard Fuller. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The dress that had belonged to his mother. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Once El Patron decides something belongs to him, he never lets it go.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It is almost dark now, so I see only shadows of buildings against a dark blue sky, and a few glowing lights near the lake that must belong to Erudite headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He answered that he’d found it and caught it, so it belonged to him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Only rarely, in fact maybe never, had he really felt that these kinds of people, that these Chicanos, belonged to a race not his own. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We all know that we might go to the Pit floor and search every face and never find one that belongs to us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The FBI holds a press conference at the site, corroborating hearsay that a passport found at the crater belonged to Kamal Aziz, an Egyptian national. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “How am I gonna kick her out of somewhere that don’t even belong to me?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Even the most secluded hermit in the woods was not one and alone; he also belonged to a class of people. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in the process of digging a trench along the side yard of a house that belonged to the mayor of Austin, a woman with the unusual name of Cherry Lane. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Each Xhosa belongs to a clan that traces its descent back to a specific forefather. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now The Gold-Bug and the words she and James found belonged to them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In 1923 it had been a passenger car belonging to Dr. W. T. Waters. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The logic that belonged to the real world had remained behind, like luggage on a dock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sleep belonged to the same category as swimming; both activities were necessary and dangerous in equal parts. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know how he’s found a plot so quickly, unless it belonged to someone else, and that someone else no longer has a place to be buried. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Like everything else he owned, it had once belonged to someone else in his family —- in this case, his grandfather. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z ‘Colonel Smith,’ he called to the stiff, red face at the window, ‘this horse belongs to Lorne, the printer. Boston Observer, you know. We can commandeer him all right.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Numbers like seven and 31 belonged to all of these systems, quinary, decimal, and vigesimal alike. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I consider running but turn my head just a bit so I can see if the voice belongs to someone in a blue windbreaker. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z After this, he would finally belong to something, a brotherhood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She doesn’t know the truth, that he belongs to himself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And all the time there had been a small fortune belonging to him, buried deep under London. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “You and your sister belong to Mr. Robert now. He’ll be a good master to you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tidy bathroom decorated with peach seashells, a bedroom with a four-poster bed that I suspected belonged to Viviana, and two rooms at the end of the hall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This land might very well belong to supernatural creatures. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She stopped in the snow, staring at the possessions outside the barn, evaluating the contents and whom they might belong to. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z One of the best bodies belonged to the oldest American by far, a high school teacher from Indianapolis. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If you belong to a group of twenty people, however, there are now 190 two-way relationships to keep track of: 19 involving yourself and 171 involving the rest of the group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The place is empty except for the pickup trucks and trailers at the other end of the parking lot that belong to the horse people who come and ride the trails on the weekends. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “She belongs to me, you know. I dreamt it.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It belonged to Aimee as a kid, a relic from her mother’s childhood. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She belonged to the sky, and the sky belonged to her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to belong to them, wanted them to belong to her the way that no one else in the world could. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z There was so much emotion in the word, like he wanted me to be his, like he wanted us to belong to each other. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z When they tracked him the next day his tracks went into the canyon near the place which belonged to the bears. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He said, kind of casual, “This here belongs to your wife, Mr. Blakeslee. I come by to bring it to her—bein’ as I was in the vicinity, so to speak.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z When it was all over, several buildings had been wholly or partially burned—including another house belonging to Abe Greenberg—and the windows of dozens of businesses lay in shards on the sidewalks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “For instance,” she hoarsely whispered, “take the way they have one another here. Mad, I tell you, absolutely mad. Everybody belongs to every one else—don’t they? don’t they?” she insisted, tugging at Lenina’s sleeve. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z By background and education, she belonged to The Club class but by ability and intelligence she belonged to the readers’ class. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the men — over 80 percent — belonged to just one group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He instantly recognized that the bones did not belong to any extant species and hence must be very old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were a few moments of minor relapses, like when I told her I had never belonged to the Latin Club, but on the whole she took things better than I thought she would. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “This face,” she said, “could belong to someone who can read. And has curls. And could have a lover before nightfall. And this is me, Beetle.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But now he knew that whoever she was seeing belonged to that car and belonged to the Seven Days. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They were quaint devices that belonged to the nineteenth century. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There have been many reports of the Sorcerer’s Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Why do you live in the woods if you belong to the squadron?” the chaplain inquired curiously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He ate slowly, watching the tiny yellow light that belonged to the Virgin and listening for far-off noises from the rest of the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not lying. She gave it to me. She said it belonged to—” I was afraid to say it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If it belongs to Boggs, Gale’s going to pay for it dearly later on. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The room, hallway, and bathroom don’t belong to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Between the edge of the burned forest and the mountains, a rocky slope of heavy boulders and scree was littered with scorched and twisted metal: girders and struts that had belonged to some complex machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Each woman was either wearing or holding something that had belonged to her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Up the mountain they have an observatory belonging to the Imperial Muscovite Academy. They’d be able to tell you. I know he went up there more than once.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been sitting on a silk napkin that must have belonged to one of his customers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "Listen here, you old fool, don't talk about killing me! Give me a chance to explain. I don't belong to anything—Go on, pick it up! Go on!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a bunch of offices, one of which happens to belong to Dr. M. Legler, child psychologist. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The very clothes upon his back belonged to his master, but he did not, as he himself said, ‘take much.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His son belonged to him now and not to Ruth, and he was relieved at not having to walk all over town like a peddler collecting rents. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I do know all the money he deals with belongs to somebody else. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z They go back and forth because they’ve been living there since way before those borders existed and they have no paperwork because they don’t belong to anybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Someone started the rumor that it had belonged to royalty and had been smuggled out via donkey cart across Germany until it eventually wound up in the Magnolia Antique Store on Fairview Street. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell Charles about the Illuminati, but the words belonged to my father, and even in my mind they sounded awkward, rehearsed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His family belonged to a Baptist church, and he sang in its choir and believed in the doctrines. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Arson, too, was a growing problem, as blacks, still unable to obtain justice in the white man’s courts, torched property belonging to their victimizers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sir La vine was actually riding into the lists when the great man came at full gallop, on a white horse which belonged to Meliagrance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They were his oldest and foulest, mustard yellow, and had once belonged to Uncle Vernon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It belonged to my grandparents and smells like the sandalwood incense my nani used to burn day and night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In 1859 The Richmond Whig said: “The miserable old traitor and murderer belongs to the gallows and the gallows will have its own.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “A totem or trinket. Something belonging to the person in question.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Your life belongs to you and you alone, soso gi. You will go back on Saturday. Let me hurry up and make some abacha for you to take.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The ship that belonged to my brother and his sister. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z We hid the car in a garage, believe it or not, belonging to a lovely and heroic old woman who lives by herself in a riverside villa on the Tours side of the Poitou. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z We figured it must have belonged to the old lady who had lived there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z All I know is that baby belongs to her now. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Because how can we be a family if we don’t all belong to the same country? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Our own particular Price family sadness seemed to belong to another time that we didn’t need to think about anymore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But when they coincidentally find themselves rubbing shoulders despite belonging to different phrases, the reader will be derailed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Upset, her parents opened the front door and said, “If you belong to Hitler, then go to him now.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘You’re mine, Aquilla. You belong to me, and we both know it. The Augurs told me. Save yourself the trouble and join me now.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Two herbicides belonging to the carbamate group, IPC and CIPC, have been found to play a role in producing skin tumors in mice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However much in earnest he might be, he had nothing of the single- mindedness that belongs to a fanatic. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But even as she said it, she found herself singing, the words stumbling out as if her mouth remembered what her mind did not, as if her mouth belonged to Chaya, her head to Hannah. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As we drive out to the D.C. suburbs, I’m still stuck on the fact that I’m sitting in the front seat of a car that belongs to a boy I can’t stand. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The voice belongs to a man, speaking in giddy Dutch with a heavy German accent. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At the time, we were living as refugees, driven from our home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because we belonged to a minority tribe, the Banyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The guys who’d been with me in the police van, the second we walked in, they instinctively, automatically, walked off to join the groups they belonged to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There was one great big room, and then there was a little room that belonged to Uncle George, and there was another room for the aunts, Aunt Docia and Aunt Ruby. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Those belong to your Uncle Webb. Oh, he’ll be so delighted.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z His lower body lay like lead, as though it belonged to someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, however, M. Yoshoto said the picture belonged to his cousin, who was away visiting relatives in Japan. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I asked Margaret if she knew who that man’s voice belonged to. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Nel belonged to the town and all of its ways. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Obviously the truck had belonged to the old man. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Bod had never seen Silas’s bag before, he had not even known that Silas had a bag, but it was the sort of bag that could only have belonged to Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z As she was being marched down the hall, a voice from one of the cells they passed called out, Mariposa does not belong to herself alone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you wouldn’t mind belonging to a union, would you?” the girl asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The voice that rose from within, however, did not belong to her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Now he was present and belonged to it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The second root goes to the realm of the frost giants, to the well that belongs to Mimir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She belongs to us, but one day her magic will fade and she will wander back into the Bog and we won't have a witch anymore. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z These natural cancer-causing agents are still a factor in producing malignancy; however, they are few in number and they belong to that ancient array of forces to which life has been accustomed from the beginning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘This will all belong to you,' his father had said, ‘you must learn the value of what you are to inherit.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Do you belong to one of those weird religions? A cult? Is that why you can’t associate with other kids? Or go to public school? Or wear ordinary clothes?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Nobody ever mentioned his stunted height and the pointed teeth that looked like they belonged to a bush rat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Impossible. I belong to Jenny Yen. In fact, I’m her biggest star.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z That sentence in turn belongs to a clause which spells out the content of the noun view. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Adolf Hitler was demanding a big piece of Poland, claiming it rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will be sold once more—perhaps many times. We no longer belong to ourselves, Amari.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I belonged to no group I learned to move seamlessly between groups. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It’s like my arm doesn’t belong to me when it goes Up. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The last face I see below belongs to my school counselor, Mr. Embry. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z That piano had once belonged to Pacheco’s wife, who could play it like a nightingale can sing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No, my dear grandson, that distinction belongs to the first time I mustered the courage to tell your abuela I loved her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As long as her sons didn’t get too serious about any one girl, they belonged to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “MidPass and the Ridge have never gotten along. Something to do with the stories of Alke, and which belonged to whom.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I, who belonged to a religion which taught that simply to be angry with another made one liable to the judgment of God and that to hate was the equivalent of murder. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That nest belongs to the eagles, not to any of them, and certainly not Frank. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I was assigned to a tailor shop, and the work was manageable, but it seemed as if my former life—school, friends, time to play and read—belonged to another world entirely. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the rooms were occupied by sleeping old men—he peeked carefully into each one—but most were empty, rooms that belonged to members of the order still enjoying the festivities. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Many of them were willing to kill their rivals to do so, whether the rival belonged to the same gang or a different one. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z If you turn to the same page of this book—and every copy of the book that will be printed from here on out you will see that the victory now belongs to Drew. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The landlord introduced the newcomers to the Bree-folk, so quickly that, though they caught many names, they were seldom sure who the names belonged to. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Now she belonged to the spirits and would dwell in the land of her ancestors forever. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hi,” I say in a tight little voice that does not belong to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Even if you don’t have her anymore, she still belonged to you two once. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My blood cries out that it belongs to her, and struggles to return to her, and I hear her words in my mind as I run, telling me to be brave. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It resembles a somewhat slimy, buck-toothed ogre and generally resides in attics or barns belonging to wizards, where it eats spiders and moths. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It thrived so much that the people kept taking, taking, taking land that belonged to the mountain creatures. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Because the adder has something that belongs to our Abbey, an ancient sword, sir,” Matthias replied. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A smell came from her which would not have been unpleasant had it belonged to someone else. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The postmark is from New York, but he does not recognize the signature as belonging to any of the rêveurs he has met in passing in that or any other city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Most of the special items we had belonged to Gran, and we’d placed several of them on her grave after her funeral. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “He is my family. He belongs to me.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I pretended that it belonged to us: him, Rose, and me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The next one belongs to Lena, who got a C even though her group’s map is probably the best. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Having once belonged to a Zionist youth organization, they knew countless Hebrew songs. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “The deal is the deal,” she said in Kerch, the language of trade, a tongue that belonged to neither of them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The big young man who belonged to Barrett dodged past the overseer, head down, and was through the door and gone—just that fast. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In closing I want to add clothing is cultural, and Muslims belong to ALL cultures of the world. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t afford many new books, but we belonged to the local library. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I have to wear a frock belonging to her mum—outmoded and severe, a thing no self-respecting girl of my generation would be caught dead in. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The country belonged to the Phaeacians, a kind people and splendid sailors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of staying in a hotel, they stay in an apartment in the Bastille which belongs to a friend of Moushumi’s, a male friend named Emanuel, a journalist, who is on holiday in Greece. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It, more than any other time, belonged to the whole neighborhood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was through his collaboration with other scientists that Pascal came to have the sense of belonging to a collectivity greater than himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That old truck and I belonged to the Marines and we had to go back into battle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z To return to the safety of their belonging to each other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even so, from now on it is clear that I belong to them; they are responsible for me and will take care of me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And while Balder was indeed beautiful, the feet she had chosen, Skadi discovered when the curtain was lifted, belonged to Njord, god of chariots, father of Frey and of Freya. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He was wrapped in a black robe that must’ve belonged to Geryon, because it was three sizes too big even for a grown man. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The same danger exists for wild animals belonging to the group of ruminants, such as deer, antelope, sheep, and goats. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They’re all stranded on a deserted island, afraid to signal for help from passing ships in the distance, because they could belong to their enemies. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z What had happened today didn’t belong to me, not really. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z From the day construction began on the hospital, Selvam ceased to belong to us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In our explorations on mud roads around Mount Elgon, we saw signs of the recent trouble: burned, empty huts that had once belonged to Bukusu farmers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But as we stand over the gravestone she will share with Grandpa, listening to Ruth blow her nose, I imagine that the stone belongs to someone else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Her mother belonged to a secret women’s society in Ville Rose, where the women had to question each other before entering one another’s houses. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I like to pay my debts, so I know you will allow ‘the old gentleman’ to send you something which once belonged to the little grand daughter he lost. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Cannek Reed was the son of a stonemason with rocklike fists, and he belonged to the water the way his father—a rare creature—belonged to the earth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, sure, I do. But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn’t really belong to the person that has them.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She grabbed a tray full of little chickens and started hacking them in half with a butcher knife that was so big, it looked like it belonged to Conan the Barbarian. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The final voice on the tape belonged to Mrs. Sen’s mother. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Thus the printing press took scattered astronomers and astrologers belonging to different cultures and holding varied intellectual commitments and allowed the widespread exchange and comparison of ideas. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “This key used to belong to my dad,” I said, pulling it out from under my shirt again, “and I want to know what it opens.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Animals are said to belong to the same species if they tend to mate with each other, giving birth to fertile offspring. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Also among the souvenirs there was a large bone hairpin that had belonged to his mother. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I propped myself against my closet wall with the two feather pillows that smelled like lavender and that had belonged to Great-great-aunt Florentine. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Now Em belonged to the school’s Banana Splits Book Club, for kids whose parents had split up. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “We’ll leave you all your treasure,” Leo said, “except the stuff that belongs to us, and the astrolabe, and this book, which we’ll take back to the dude in Venice.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Unlike folk music, it has usually been written recently and belongs to professional musicians, and new popular tunes quickly replace old ones. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I was a scholarship boy who belonged to an earlier time. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no time to process them, note where the casualties were from, or even what unit they belonged to. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There had been a time when we, too, had benefited—those days seemed very remote now, almost belonging to another life—but we had lost more than we had gained or could ever regain. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z If he couldn't belong to something, at least something belonged to him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I belong to the people Hove, and they belong to me—they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They cannot be definitely dated, but the earliest are considered by most scholars to belong to the end of the eighth century or the beginning of the seventh. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Genetic analysis proved that the finger belonged to a previously unknown human species, which was named Homo denisova. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now I still felt a deep and primal terror coil in my veins, and I knew in my heart that it belonged to him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z These pairs pop out of the text at us, and when they belong to the same phrase they can lubricate the parsing process, allowing the words to be joined up quickly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Complicating matters, the FBI had just discovered that the hundred-dollar bills found in the burglars’ pockets had all been withdrawn from a bank account belonging to the Committee to Reelect the President. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Those private boats belong to rich people and tourists.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The hollowness in my chest grows, just like it always does whenever I go somewhere that used to belong to both me and Khalid. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z They belonged to my brother, who, in the guest bathroom, amid the fancy hand towels, stood watching as I pulled down my underpants and lifted my skirt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The three of them seemed to belong to another, sadder life. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Not just a nobody with a manufactured name which might have belonged to anyone, or to no one. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The deer will suffer, too, and the land will be poorer for the destruction of the wild things that belong to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They belong to Stannis now, she realized, even if they do not know it themselves yet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Anglican” meant English Church; in England everybody had to belong to it, or at least they were supposed to. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My voice belonged to a happy, carefree girl, and I almost didn’t recognize it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He was the sizzling kebab, from the land that once belonged to Cyrus, the late great shah-in-shah. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z A long time ago the house had belonged to a very respectable family, but they had moved into town after the waters of the river began to cut into the cliff below them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, the only ships in sight belonged to Stannis, and the only danger would come from watchers on the castle walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The leather jacket belonged to the days of the Corsair when men dueled in the skies for possession of Pacific atolls and for airspace above the gray, endangered fleets. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His stomach tightened and rolled and made noise as he looked at the eggs, as if his stomach belonged to somebody else or had seen die eggs with its own eyes and was demanding food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, it is real. The Brotherhood, we call it. You will never learn much more about the Brotherhood than that it exists and that you belong to it. I will come back to that presently.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I wondered how such calm could belong to a world at war. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z You’re not supposed to see the limbs of your friends and relatives crammed into plastic bags, all tangled up together because no one knows who the limbs belong to. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If you were more than a few years out of college in 1975, then you belonged to the old paradigm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z His expression seems more lucid than when he tried to strangle me, but it’s still not one that belongs to him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z As they trudged toward the heart of Tartarus, he kept glancing down at his body, wondering how it could belong to him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even though I did not know exactly what was going on, I knew I did not want to belong to Magistrate Tiger. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “These were made after the last high tide,” Neel said, wondering if any belonged to Baba. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Because Cole and the bear belonged to the same landscape now, Cole still felt the bear inside. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They are past, they belong to another world that is gone from us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Cops wanted to know who the weapons belonged to. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They had been written by a man who had belonged to the Company before us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I found something that didn’t belong to me and opened it by mistake.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I told her they didn’t belong to me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They have holed up in an apartment that I can only assume belongs to Asher, on the outskirts of the city. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t belong to her mother, didn’t belong to her father, didn’t belong with her siblings. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “El Patron thinks a person belongs to him the same way a house or car or statue does,” she said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a recognition that the country belongs to all those who have made it their home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Alchemy and chemistry were both experimental disciplines, but the alchemist and the chemist had different forms of life and belonged to different types of community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Reagan portrayed the criminal as “a staring face—a face that belongs to a frightening reality of our time: the face of the human predator.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Soon our charming black-and-white house on Pinewood Drive would no longer belong to us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z A hand is being extended, and now I’m shaking that hand, and it belongs to a short, round woman with bleached yellow hair, warm eyes, and a crinkled-up face. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her delight was in pruning and grafting and everything that belongs to the gardener’s art. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sure the third voice belonged to Eugene. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt a need to explain to the woman that Charlie belonged to her, but she couldn’t figure out how. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I said a person belongs to a group, you can’t belong to everyone. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She had been concealed in a haycock, and had, at one point, spent a week hidden in a potato hole in a cabin which belonged to a family of free Negroes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not sure which low caste I even belong to." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I don’t belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z For years, I had been working out at an all-women’s gym in New Jersey—the same all-women’s gym my mother belonged to—but I could tell I wasn’t getting anything out of the facilities anymore. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There was one night when Khalid spent a long time telling me a story about a shack that belongs to Old Man Martin, down by the river in the swampland. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self-worth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Muhammad was busy away at school when Mom and I moved in, so neither of them belong to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z No, he later explained, because the Pentagon Papers did not really belong to Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The coat of Old Tallow was a fantastic thing, woven of various pelts, including one of lynx, one of beaver, a deer hide, and two that belonged to beloved dogs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The only sounds in the kitchen belonged to the eggs frying on the stove and Nana whistling the Bunker theme song. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Asgard the Golden belonged to the gods; glorious Valhalla to the heroes; Midgard was the battlefield for men, not the business of women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This place belonged to my brother, and I’ve worked this summer to make it belong to me too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Now, even after she had washed her hands, holding the crisp, slender hundred-dollar bill he had given her, her fingers still felt sticky; they no longer belonged to her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It would belong to people who could afford to live there. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They belong to the same species as you and me, so that we know that they have feelings like our own. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “They do not belong to the Aleuts,” I said, “they belong to me.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knows who the magic belongs to, but it’s stayed all these years, so I’m invisible whenever I’m on Water Island too, and that suits me just fine. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The creature they belonged to was tall and skinny, like a horse that had been pulled until its limbs stretched into spider legs. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Harpers Ferry itself changed hands eight times during the war, though the record in this regard belongs to Winchester, Virginia, a few miles south, which managed to be captured and recaptured seventy-five times. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “And if you see them carrying her, what will you do? She will belong to them and not you.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She assumed the address belonged to one of Roy’s friends, and that he was picking up a textbook or a homework assignment. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Just hard, flat eyes that didn't belong to the Charlie they had taken away. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z I didn’t need to see who was driving it to know who that vehicle belonged to: Cate and Rob. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z "You're very polite but I belong to another generation," he announced solemnly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Anyone could belong to the committee, and C.P. decided that, uneasy as he was about the whole thing, he had committed himself to the process and might as well see it through. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Handing out red, green, blue, and black markers, Miss Garcia asks, “How many social units do you belong to?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Burger carried the suitcase, but it belonged to Dasch, who was in charge of handling the money. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Eleven thousand dollars’ worth of flesh and bone and muscle that belonged to Maryland planters. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “My few free hours belong to my mother. I’m all that she has.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “In Mirjam's things, I found this. It's a letter to an Elizabeth from a Margaret. I'm trying to figure out who it belongs to or how it got there.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z You say, ‘That is not mine’—meaning that such a thing does belong to someone else.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were a couple of old things that belonged to Mr. Donnelly. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Some books and toys belonging to the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Klan burned down homes and businesses belonging to its political rivals, and frightened many others into leaving the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At first I worried that they might belong to somebody, but then I remembered that the farm is ours, so these flowers must belong to us too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z They’d tried to stop him right up until that morning, when I heard him screaming that his body belonged to him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “But...I don’t understand. Even if he took payment in, uh, whatever, how does that make everything belong to the bank?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Four remained, counting her own Black Wind, and one of those belonged to Tris Botley, who had joined her when all her other men were fleeing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This new voice belonged to an old beggar sitting barefoot on the steps of a bullet-scarred building. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The largest camp belongs to Roiben of the Court of Termites. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Yellow light shines like a line beneath my bedroom door, and I hear some murmurs and whispers that don’t belong to the TV, voices coming from the kitchen. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I heard a scream and didn’t realize it had belonged to me until that same black monster’s head swiveled toward us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Sketches done in charcoal and pencil plastered the walls, and I wondered which ones, if any, belonged to Diego. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I find myself now in the attic room of this small cottage belonging to Mr and Mrs Taylor. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “They only fool themselves when they think it is theirs. The deeds and papers don’t mean anything. It is the people who belong to the mountain.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One night, while his friends were gathered around him, he said, “Uncle, what organization do you belong to?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z None knew yet that it belonged to him and he walked out to see it alone, a long square of heavy black clay that lay stretched beside the moat encircling the wall of the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Flowers didn’t belong to our church, nor was she Momma’s familiar. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, 95 percent of the cotton grown in the world today belongs to the cotton species Gossypium hirsutum, which was domesticated in prehistoric times in Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It irritated him: her assuming that everything belonged to Master, her taking command of his kitchen, her ignoring his perfect jollof rice and chicken. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He still belonged to Hitler, body and soul. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The tunic must have belonged to a giant. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was testified that the gun belonged to the victim. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The coins and the bowl belonged to Minli; they had been given to her when she was a baby, and she had had them for as long as she could remember. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z One angry minister said that women’s rights advocates were “a hybrid species, half man and half woman, belonging to neither sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I knew I probably shouldn’t have, because they didn’t belong to me, but I opened one of them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Chandresh will remark that “the recipes belong to the chefs themselves and I am not one to deny them their privacy.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I fight the impulse to reach up and touch his eyes, to check and make sure they really belong to Joon and not some sad grandfather, homeless and lying in the street. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “We call it ‘memory serum,’ since it doesn’t technically just belong to the Abnegation, but yeah. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “He calls everyone here Mother. He has belonged to the whole village ever since we found him abandoned outside the gate. At first, no one wanted him.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “But consider, Crispin, it belongs to no one else but ourselves. Honest pay for honest work. And you deserve some, too.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Like she can close the book on this bedtime story, in this bed that doesn’t belong to them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It belonged to itself now, and cared not at all how I felt about these strange alterations, about whether I wanted to stop being a child, and become something else. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Pain and aches, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It felt like a confession, as though I had stolen something that now belonged to Fred’s family. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Except he’d maybe seen a face that maybe belonged to someone like him— Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “If we ever get through this day, it will be a miracle. What say you, Shady? Still interested in buying the aforementioned land belonging to the late Widow Cane?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z That means wherever we put a single foot—it’s land that belonged to the Lenape. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “You? That doesn’t make sense. Why in tarnation would you take things that already belong to you?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z In America do you knowl This part of the city didn’t actually belong to the Chinese, even though the beggars sat there, even though upper-class Chinese lived there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Kluck might as well be saying Go back to where you belong to Mama right now. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Compared to Maxwell Street, the Prairie Avenue District seemed as though it belonged to a different place and time, untouched by the coal smoke and ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “My mom isn’t going to let anyone walk out of this house with anything that belonged to Fred. Not yet. And not even you,” she said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Like I have said to you, she has been assigned to our bedroom. So the things in there belong to her. Not to Jews.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He roared at us, but as we trembled to the ground I cried out, "Do not eat us, Beast! We belong to the Great Green Tiger!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Before Keeler it was Paulina, but what I remember most is Mango Street, sad red house, the house I belong but do not belong to. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I learn that one of our owners is a Scientologist; another proudly claims descent from one of the same Scottish clans my own ancestors belonged to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That voice, the loudest voice that Despereaux had ever heard, could only, he assumed, belong to the world’s largest rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Now that we no longer belonged to the Company, we somehow had to acquire a thousand dollars worth of property, a faraway figure when you can only save nickels and dimes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Elis experiment belonged to a different world entirely—a world light-years ahead of the floating disks and squat cylinders previous ancient authorities had imagined our planet to be. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z But the open bay and the ledge of rocks under the water did not belong to Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "Enough, my lords. If I had a dozen vans, all of you should have one, but the greatest glory by rights belongs to the greatest knight. Ser Loras shall strike the first blow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Others were crossing in the small boats belonging to the Anyuak tribesmen, who used them to fish on the river. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes; the family have always been respected here. Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His voice sounded strangely hoarse, like it belonged to someone else. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Hope is silent—his name, they say, belongs to a girl, his ears, they laugh stick out too far from his head. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z News reporters called Pinyudu a “camp,” but it was just a big, open place with no houses except a few belonging to the local Anyuak people. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Habib donated the leather headgear and goggles he had worn as a pilot in the war, to which was attached a red tie belonging to Mr. Lee to simulate the bird’s fleshy nose. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z That’s why a lot of my clothes are too big for me, ’cause they belonged to someone else first. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It must have belonged to one of Capricorn’s men. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I want you here by me, where you belong to be,” said Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Bags upon bags of clothes belonging to all the families in the square are dumped into a pile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the music that belonged to her family was going to last forever. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Agamemnon, who led the Greeks against Troy, belonged to it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “You understand that Miss Nita belongs to one of the most powerful trading clans in the North?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z But they’re so big, and so obviously belong to this water world—where I do not—that I stop moving, not wanting to attract their attention. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It belonged to an officer who was an excellent shot.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z You can’t hear them, and they all sound like they belong to somebody else. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They both turned their heads at once, because it was a bird that sounded like no creature that belonged to the world they were in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They got DNA evidence from the crime scene tested again, and the results showed it didn’t belong to this guy. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “That getup really does something for you, Janey-Jane. I can see why you take your training and all that so serious. You belong to this life. You’ll be a brilliant Attendant.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But the face I was looking for was as bright as the sun and the flame of desire—and it belonged to Marie. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Alsvindr was huge for a horse—much taller than either of the Ivanov family’s horses—and since he had belonged to such a rotten man, everyone expected him to be rotten too. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Writers’ has a possessive sense: it implies that the workshop belongs to the writers who attend. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They come from the bunk next to mine—they belong to a Candor boy, Al, the largest and broadest of all the initiates. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand yet that it was a gambling site belonging to a criminal ring, but I did know what a minus sign in front of red numbers meant. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The boat was moored in the private harbour belonging to Manderley?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was dissimulating, like some of the teachers at the college, who, to avoid trouble when driving through the small surrounding towns, wore chauffeur caps and pretended that their cars belonged to white men. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Crown: “The biggest, most precious crown belongs to a humble queen.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “He’s wrecking your game. Doesn’t he belong to somebody?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The emotions in the vision seemed to belong to someone else, and Taisin couldn’t reconcile them with the present. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They belong to an old man with a white beard, blinking into the light. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The few skeletons belonging to mature males bore the worst marks of violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The contents of Abuelita’s bulto looked like it may have belonged to El Niño Fidencio, the famous curandero of olden times, and I watched in awe as she sorted the ingredients for Pita’s treatment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “South Africa belongs to us once more,” Malan proclaimed in his victory speech. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where it says ‘the dwelling place belonging to’ and so on. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Many natives, seeking to categorize the newcomers, were open to the possibility that they might belong to the realm of the supernatural. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It belonged to men like this, in tusked helms and bronze chest plates, with axes strapped across their backs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the halls the people would walk up and down together and everybody seemed to belong to some special bunch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The voice on the other end is irritated but, thankfully, belongs to Marv. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The booming voice belonged to a powerful man with dark hair and broad shoulders who sat upon an elegant brown horse. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He paused, then looked closely at the hands of the man who sat before him, and said, “Clean your fingernails, Colonel. They look like they belong to an enlisted man. That’s all.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But an empty bed and house always greeted them, and the footsteps always belonged to a passing neighbor. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The soldierwives would too, for they belonged to the ■* army of servants who would work at the birthday dinner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt realized these men belonged to the Farm Patrol and thus, judging by Celia’s stories, were very dangerous. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Already she belonged to the past, she was only a memory. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The first one belongs to a man who isn’t home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “No one knew who she belonged to, so I took her into my father’s shop.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Anything the light touched belonged to the sun gods and the sun gods never allowed any evil to pass through Bali’s borders. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “I will aid in your recovery. Human youth, I understand that you have something that belongs to me?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He belonged, not to this scum which clung to the walls of a rich man’s house; nor did he belong to the rich man’s house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Like he wants the name to only belong to him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The sins of the fathers belong to you and to the forest and even to the ones in iron bracelets, and here you stand, remembering their songs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes ma’am, she say, and I thought I had this house too, but look like it belong to your sister Nettie and you. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But most were young men who belonged to gangs. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Ira said timidly, “We would not take what belonged to us all.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw as many hockey games as he could, was an active tennis player, skied, swam, and belonged to a Ping-Pong club in Manhattan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His expression, as well as his words, seemed to belong to a much older man, a man whose hot blood had cooled, who was at peace. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It had been there two hundred years almost, and its detachment marked it out from the rest of the land, and it belonged to her more than to anyone else. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Just a snack, really. You know my heart belongs to you, Luke.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He held a grudge about as well as he held his liquor, and he had a gift for making Kaz’s victories sound like they belonged to everyone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They ransacked the offices and confiscated files on six million young Germans who belonged to rival groups. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I look around, but the only door I can see belongs to the guardhouse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z This honor belongs to all the survivors and their children and, through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I have always identified. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The magical wallet and cap belong to the properties fairy tales abound in everywhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at war, soldiers of the crown hardly merited that term, which belonged to ancient battles and bloodcurdling cries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z No, these rustles belonged to the prairie night—pack rats and prairie dogs and who knew what else. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She is a person in her own right, and she does not belong to me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z So Mom was taken not just with Dad but with the big, mostly intact, relatively normal family he belonged to. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only later, after I’d left the office and forgotten all about them, that I learned whom they belonged to, and that maybe I hadn’t been quite so safe that afternoon as I’d thought. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I belonged to a gang. It was when your father was breaking them up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In the quarter, at night, some of the slaves gathered together in the cabin that belonged to Ben, her father, and talked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as I was concerned, the house belonged to me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The photographer had also brought me a pair of lined woolen climbing slacks belonging to his wife, good ones, well-made and not much used, which he gave to me after he put away his equipment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As they came closer, she realized one of them belonged to the greenwitch, and she sounded upset. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess sucked in the ashy air, and it smelled different now that he viewed it as belonging to the other world. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And the sound that came from her mouth belonged to something wearing a pelt instead of a coat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Have you found any old letters or papers that belonged to my family?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z You all belong to me, Gaea murmured like a lullaby. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A house is a place filled with rooms, and all the rooms belong to just one family. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “That,” she said, “depends on the need. But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It belonged to the thirty-eight-year-old, unmarried daughter of the family that, up to a few weeks earlier, had been living in the house. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z While I heard the words, knew they had meaning, even knew the meanings that belonged to them, I couldn’t pull any sense from them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It belonged to Karl’s mother,” said Chase as we climbed the steps to my front door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We shaded our faces green with a broken eye shadow that belonged to Dora’s mother, and my mother gave us two burlap sacks that had once contained basmati rice, for collecting candy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Back home he had never felt that way, as though he belonged to anyplace or anybody. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But what I hear, still ringing in my mind’s ear, is the Glee Club I belonged to, made up of girls from the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Still moving quickly, and panting for breath, the young mouse gasped, “Matthias mouse, Warrior of Redwall Abbey. The medal belongs to my friend Basil Stag Hare. He sends his compliments, Cap’n, sir.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After the plane landed, I was the first to see the white parents, but I could not stop to scrutinize them and guess which belonged to me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer to this question is to be found in a notebook belonging to an English lawyer, musician and literary figure, Roger North. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Had Galileo belonged to a functioning scientific community, to take just one example, he would have been firmly discouraged from placing his theory of the tides at the centre of his defence of Copernicanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “She said”—he wipes his eyes—“that the card belongs to the owner of this dog.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The skull belonged to a megatherium, a mammoth version of a sloth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “These already belong to Grandpa. It’s like hunting lions at the zoo.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Named the church he belonged to and said that he was an officer in the navy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Yau belong to that man now” “But I don’t want to, Papa,” she said. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z But the women who trained in the 122nd Air Group, though they split into three separate units when they went to war, would say that they belonged to “Raskova’s regiments.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z My fingers no longer belonged to my body. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “We have good news from our informants. We are moving out in five minutes to kill some rebels and take their supplies, which really belong to us,” the lieutenant would announce. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Go much prefers to sit in the Show Room, in the stained Art Deco theater seats that originally belonged to a movie house in Oakland, now demolished. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That way, when you saw a tire track in the dirt, you knew instantly if it belonged to the great fleets of Kamkwamba Toyota, for instance, or Gilbert Company LTD. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “The girl grew up in a traditional village. She belongs to us, not the Catholics.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to get up and leave, but my legs did not belong to me, did not do what I wanted them to. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The farm being worked by the Jews of the Przemyśl ghetto once belonged to a Jew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The lodge gates were a memory, and the high-road something belonging to another time, another world. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t just hate the other kids for being sad, for believing that the sorrow belonged to them, somehow, when you were never theirs to begin with. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That first day, as I wandered through the house that belonged to my new family, I was ecstatic to discover the inground pool, and I begged to swim. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered whether the captive black man belonged to Tom Weylin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And it's not even strange that it feels the way it's always felt like the place we belong to. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Those things belonged to the world above, where time ran in its iron circles, day to night to day to night to day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I wonder what they are like and what it would feel like to belong to a family again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the fringe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I belong to the world of one God, one people. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow it had felt like the problems belonged to West Eighty-eighth Street. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “And they probably belong to the housekeeper. She usually takes them home with her in the evenings.'' “ The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They imagined themselves belonging to two very different societies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end they settled down for the night in a far-flung field belonging to a lonely farm, from which they had managed to obtain eggs and bread. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “The tree belongs to you, not the new family, and you’ve been here forever.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I crept out of the room that no longer belonged to Jesse, and stood at the top of the stairs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A long leg stepped over the rope, and the person it belonged to turned and walked away. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Father told me that we were living on what had once been a rich estate belonging to the Esperanza family. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t bother reading any of the names on the trophies or plaques, for I knew none of them belonged to a black person. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful night and his car was just one of a steady stream of vehicles belonging to Permian supporters making their way back from San Angelo like worshipers returning from a pilgrimage. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, the Romans burned a tattoo into your flesh, as if to say: You belong to us. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was one I hadn’t seen for a long time and that belonged to the Tommy who’d had to be barricaded inside a classroom while he kicked over desks. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The land, then the main means of production, belonged to the whole tribe and there was no individual ownership whatsoever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she felt like Crispin Crispian in that old children’s book by Margaret Wise Brown, the dog who belonged to himself. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “If I am not mistaken, miss, you are Volksdeutsche, a Lithuanian who was allowed to repatriate into Germany. Your liberty belongs to Adolf Hitler. We can certainly hand you back over to Stalin.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I hope they take something that belongs to him. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Petra didn’t think much about what racial category she belonged to—her family had let go of that way of looking at things a long time ago. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It just belongs to the man that can get it and keep it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But all of them belonged to the genus Homo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Look at how he gave away Roman lands that did not even belong to him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I didn’t know it then, but that face belonged to Phoebe Winterbottom, a girl who had a powerful imagination, who would become my friend, and who would have many peculiar things happen to her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But suddenly the house had spilled its contents into a night which now belonged to a half-comic domestic crisis. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I stood in the front of the fine as always, because the back was for the girls who belonged to cliques, girls who giggled and whispered to one another, shielded from the teachers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Presumably they belonged to venerated ancestors whose beneficent presence was thus assured. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was our secret, something that belonged to no one else. You didn’t have to show it to him. We’ve been going up there since the day we first set foot in this temple.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “The guardian of lost sheep and light. Or something. She belongs to my mother.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z It was even better than wearing this flight jacket, which—unless Joe Pepitone’s jacket turns up—is the only thing I own that hasn’t belonged to some other Swieteck before me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It does not belong to you...not to only one….How...how could you?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Call, who had always belonged to me because nobody else besides his mother and grandmother would have him, and the Captain, who finally through all our troubles and misunderstandings had become mine as well. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham thought it obvious that the territory belonged to him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There are roots, too, hanging down from the rocks above, belonging to who knows what kinda plant. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “But it doesn’t belong to you. The Fugitive Slave Law says I have a right to return this property to its owner. That’s what I aim to do.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The bracelet used to belong to her grandmother, but she had given it to Candice almost five years ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She is in a world we don’t belong to anymore. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. Horses. Chickens, too. Everything belongs to me. And Ryder. Isn’t that right, boy? Of course, maybe I belong to him and he thinks those are his chickens. Hard to say.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Land belongs to a particular clan, not to the whole tribe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The energy in all things belongs to the arcanist. We command fire and fire obeys.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The one on the right, with the explosion of toys in the dirt, belongs to Tía Inés and the twins. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Georgie’s red-brown hair was pulled up into a ponytail, and she wore sweatpants and a baggy Yankees sweatshirt that probably belonged to her fiancée, Michelle. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Still, in White’s view, Gregg belonged to that category of outlaw who was not inherently bad and who might even have “gone places” with proper training. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I don't know a whole lot about castes and subcastes, but whatever the topmost one is, she looks like she could belong to it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was black and opaque, as usual, but she felt newly aware of it, and now she wondered how she had ever not known that it once belonged to Elowen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was as though she felt that the incense belonged to them both; it was a moment of marriage. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When Monsanto, or some other corporation, invents a new type of corn, it belongs to them and they can charge farmers for the right to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She wrote, “It is perhaps foolish of me to say this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, they must have belonged to one of the other flocks on the island, because nobody in my flock is missing.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It could only have belonged to a youth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Because Harry knew who that screaming voice belonged to now. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z ‘Salim,’ Rashid said, ‘is Salim. He doesn’t belong to either of us.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterwards he waged war with his own troops, and not with those belonging to others. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The frisk of our second cell, which belonged to a skinny, middle-aged man, was also uneventful. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When she returned, the US government gave her a piece of paper saying that this land, kwe’e sikehfjn, right here where we sit, belonged to her.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Either she was not a bruja, or to their way of thinking, she had powers that belonged to the Devil himself. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It belonged to die half-grown child with the blond eyebrows and the long green braid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Oh! Jane,” cried Elizabeth, “was there a servant belonging to it who did not know the whole story before the end of the day?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I kept staring at my hands, almost believing they belonged to someone else. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It had called him in some mysterious way, because it wanted to be his, because it had somehow always belonged to him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I’m one hundred percent sure the cars in the driveway belong to King Lords and Garden Disciples. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The only way to build Göbekli Tepe was for thousands of foragers belonging to different bands and tribes to cooperate over an extended period of time. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice sounded like it belonged to a young woman. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z BREN: So, Arturo, perchance does that hook of Cuban rapper poems belong to a special someone who popped into your life the other day after so many years apart? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Her body jerked as though it belonged to someone else. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They all belonged to a girl who was short, slight, and, as Shin remembers, exceptionally pretty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Above these were three other names that belonged to complete strangers as far as Jethro was concerned. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out those belonged to none other than Sahil, who came to sit by me on the boulder. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Bigger, do you belong to a union?” she asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He hastily poured some fresh water over the parakeet and dried him off on the tail of his T-shirt, which was huge and dingy and probably belonged to his father. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sword belongs to my son,” Domingo said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The first floor belongs to Madame Manec: clean, navigable, full of visitors who come through the kitchen door to trade in small-town scandal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later he returned with the notched spear that had belonged to his grandfather. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Then you can’t say for sure that it belongs to either of my clients, is that right?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The robe did not belong to her, though she was learning its story through her work. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The blessing of belonging to this struggle, this fight. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The sea which surrounds the Island of the Blue Dolphins belongs to us,” answered my father. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a memory of it, but I can’t tell whether the memory belongs to Saturday night or to another time. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The social role of helping the poor and migrants belongs to politicians. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She was dropping things and eating food that belonged to the newly married couple and started in to worrying everybody that the deweys needed a bath and she was going to give it to them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the histories of dinosaurs, nebulas, and glaciers are generally acknowledged to belong to fields of science rather than to the humanities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It belonged to a very large, very grouchy-looking, very sweaty Clock Watcher. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They replied that the house had belonged to members of the rebel faction, and had been requisitioned as barracks for Clavering’s Regiment, the 52nd. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They all belonged to each other: the lament of those who yearn, the laughter of the wise, the cry of indignation and the groan of the dying. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I've been dressed and measured and primped so many times, I still hate the feeling in these moments that my body doesn't belong to me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The well belongs to Urd; she is fate, and destiny. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The rocks could hardly be called land, but we knew they were the beginning of the Hawaiian Islands and we knew that the Hawaiian Islands were a territory belonging to the United States. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The coats—he could tell from their medals and insignia—belonged to high Nazi officials. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She was our mother and belonged to us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “What makes you think that government-owned stores are free of fourolds? That statement itself is fourolds. Didn’t you see all the shop signs that were knocked down? Most of those stores belonged to the government.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Heads of factories; directors of industries and agricultural combines who hate to be what they call ‘the Machine’s office-boy’ belong to it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A man introduced himself as belonging to the Department of Homeland Security. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z That stage, however, belonged to the early days of the Shire, and hobbit-building had long since been altered, improved by devices, learned from Dwarves, or discovered by themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “This belonged to my papa. He used to sit outside after dinner and play it.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z If those prints belonged to the thief, could he still be up there? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He belonged to a congregation similar to the one shown here, photographed in Harlem in 1929. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z "Look, man," I cried, urgently now, "I don't belong to any union." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn't care about Fielding, none of it belonged to him any more. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The blind girl did not know whom the voice belonged to. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Fates have clear ideas about what jobs belong to gods, and what has to be done by mortals. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Beneath them, the floor was polished marble, and the ceiling was a strange twisting river of names that, Aru imagined, belonged to the dead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the blame, his father decides, belongs to Enrique’s mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The table that had once belonged to Stanton—the one where the Declaration of Sentiments had been prepared—now sat in Anthony’s front parlor. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Warners stayed free in a condo that belonged to Neal Harris, Terryl’s old friend from Southern California who had been engaged to April before she died of cancer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Therefore Marx says that these natural resources should belong to everyone, not divided into little pieces but used by all the people according to their ability to work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A second backpack joins mine on the steps, and I know who it belongs to without looking up. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It told the world she belonged to the Dregs, that to trifle with her was to risk their vengeance. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The worst body belonged to a car thief from Cicero, Illinois. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Dozer, “from what we heard, you used to belong to Big Tony here.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Nobody was around but Snowbell, the white cat belonging to Mrs. Little. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z A few of the dogs belonged to the residents, but most of them had no owners. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She knew that voice and who it belonged to. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I distributed the furniture among the various tenants, except the dining-room table, which was still intact despite the worms that had got into everything, and the wrought-iron bed that had belonged to my parents. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Greenberg recognized that all Niger-Congo languages of subequatorial Africa belong to a single language subgroup termed Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The customers who saw you run past, they figured you belonged to one of the crew.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s a new law requiring all state employees to turn in a list of all the organizations they belong to. It has to be notarized and everything.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s always about what they want. Because he belongs to them more than he belongs to me. And I want to make them proud of me. It’s all I want.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They work dirt cheap and don’t, Auntie Buzz says with a happy smile, belong to a union. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper chain belonged to everybody, but he was almost the poster boy for it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Because in addition to the parking lot full of vehicles with Confederate flag emblems on them, the looks coming at us from the people said vehicles belong to? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z If my mom hadn’t packed my lunch on 18 September 2013,1 wouldn’t have gotten to the cafeteria early and sat at a table that belonged to a group of seniors, which included my brother. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Not mine. They belonged to my brother, who gave up fishing when he was injured. It’s not easy to wear waders with a prosthetic leg. If I sit on the stairs, perhaps you could...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Yes ma’am, she say, and I thought 1 had this house too, but look like it belong to your sister Nettie and you. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been different when they were out-of-doors, where the world belonged to everyone and no one. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “That pearl was supposed to be worth the Emperor’s entire fortune. A single pearl. I suppose it could’ve belonged to a dragon.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z It belongs to a different, far bigger and more scholarly book to trace in detail the development of rhetoric teaching and theory between the ancient world and the present day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “The Poet tells us that impatience belongs to small things—fleas, tadpoles, and fruit flies. You, my love, are ever so much more than a fruit fly.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The awful visitors were the women who belonged to the Animal Fanciers’ Society. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “From the minute I first seen him,” said Bryce, “I knew he belonged to you. I said to myself, ‘That rabbit is for Sarah Ruth, for sure.’ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Now let’s go get whatever belongs to you out of that attic.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The white men belonging to the power structures in thousands of communities across America know that I’m right! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And just because the last initial was C didn’t mean it had belonged to a Cavanaugh. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Just inside the front cover, spidery handwriting proclaimed, “This book belongs to me, Lilian Willis.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I feel like it doesn’t belong to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Alter, this farm wouldn’t happen to have belonged to a Mrs. O’Leary, would it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, not all these clubs and those who belonged to them were in favor of granting the vote to all women. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Do you know what Native nation it belongs to? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z All these names, each belonging to a young person, a young person who might be lying dead somewhere right now, or worse...“Aha!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It belonged to a large Man-like, almost Troll-like, figure, at least fourteen foot high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His eyes seemed too bright, too full of fire for the old body they belonged to, and they stared at Pong, full of meaning that he didn't understand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She could forget that Wash belonged to the twins first of all. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Please . . . she said. “You took something that belonged to me,” Buddy Ray said, looking directly at me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She knew he had taken the front so he could pretend the car belonged to him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The sheep, the horses, and the fields—everything belonged to them, including the good family name. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Either he didn’t know which bell it belonged to, or he was a really good liar. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It enraged her, the way he held her body—as though Sarai belonged to him, as if she could be more precious to him than to her own family. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, through this experience Wang Lung learned what the young men had not taught him, that he belonged to his own kind, who have black hair and black eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was accepted; and from that period Jane had belonged to Colonel Campbell’s family, and had lived with them entirely, only visiting her grandmother from time to time. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Change meant land was taken away, houses now belonged to the state, servants gained power as fighters. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “This home belongs to my wife. I stay here from time to time.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Then she could read the three thin lines of type: This object belongs to Mrs. Lorelei Granger, and she may call it any name she chooses. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he turned away and said: “Go get your gun. It doesn’t belong to you. It needs returning.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z With bright eager eyes he groped under his bed and brought forth the waist pouch that had belonged to Shadow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It is a barely visible eight-legged creature belonging to the group that includes spiders, scorpions, and ticks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But before she crossed completely to the world of electronic computing, Katherine Johnson would tackle one last, very important assignment, using the techniques and the tools that belonged to the human era of computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The house belongs to a woman whose children went to Washington, D.C., and sent her the money to build it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It didn’t look as if it belonged to anyone: no collar, not an ounce of fat on it, nothing to suggest it had a caring owner. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Last winter, Grover had heard a voice in his head: I await you—a voice he was sure belonged to Pan—but apparently his search had led nowhere. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Tayo realized then that as long as Josiah and Rocky had been alive, he had never known Robert except as a quiet man in the house that belonged to old Grandma and Auntie. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And all the world knew that the Sicilians belonged to the Black Hand and that the Black Hand Society always kidnapped little children and held them for ransom. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s as though we were all sworn to the same secret covenant, so secret we don’t even know what we belong to. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She belonged to I don’t know how many different clubs; she was a leading light of local so-called ‘ ‘black society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, I would go out and play soccer with boys who did not belong to gangs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now was the third time in all the years I had belonged to this library that I was on its third floor. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “You’re hiding your gift. Well, it’s not yours to hide. Whatever it is, it belongs to all of us.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sadly, Siddhartha went to a pleasure garden that belonged to him, closed the gates, sat under a mango tree, and felt horror and death in his heart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt appeared in the doorway, damphaired and barefoot with crumbs on his chin, jam on the edges of his mouth, and wearing a too-large woven shirt belonging to Thomas. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And so I think maybe I really don’t belong to this world. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The train had belonged to Dad when he was a little boy, and his own father before him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the records belonged to Antoine Thomas, but Erik Fisher was in there for the longest field goal, the highest field-goal percentage in a season, and the most extra points in a season. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured she must belong to the black shoe. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “He is the one wife belonging to many white men.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Duck had caught a glimpse of a hull that he insisted belonged to Urho the Unwashed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In words belonging to chemistry derivatives in -ic denote the acid containing most oxygen, when more than one is formed: as nitric acid. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a great big roofed room and it belonged to a worried gentleman named Horace Abbeville. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a smile that gave no indication that the person who belonged to it was a bomb waiting to go off. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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