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Belongings

noun

Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone. Synonyms: holding, property. "He is a man of property"

Belonging

noun

Happiness felt in a secure relationship.

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"Belongings" Quotes from Famous Books

... a very English Englishman, with an inborn love of fine horse-flesh and a guileless nature. Some years before he had fallen into the hands of a promoter, and had bartered a goodly proportion of his worldly belongings for a horse-ranch in Dakota, to be taken possession of immediately. Long indeed was the wail which went up from his home in Sussex when the fact was made known. Neighbors were fluent in denunciation, relatives insistent in expostulation; his wife, and in sympathy ...

— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... lurch the train came to a dead stop and Margaret Earle, hastily gathering up her belongings, hurried down the aisle and got out into ...

— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill

... to meet this ugly development with a masterly piece of trickery conceived in the Eastern vein. One day a carefully arranged dispute took place between him and his wife, and the police were angrily called in to see that his family and all their belongings were taken away to Tientsin as he refused any longer to share the same roof with them. Being now alone in the capital, he apparently abandoned himself to a life of shameless debauch, going nightly to the haunts of pleasure and becoming a notorious figure in the great district in the Outer ...

— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale

... and massive in the saddle, up the slope among the big-boled trees, and in a trice out of sight. She stood like one in a sudden trance. Then, with an inarticulate moan, she ran into the grove and grasped Blackie's rope, and dragged at him trying to make him run with her to her saddle and few belongings. The saddle nearly overmastered her; it was heavy, and she knew as little of it as did any city girl. But her need was sore and her young body not without supple strength. In half of the allotted time Gloria came riding up the ridge. Now King glanced toward her briefly. But less at her than ...

— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory

... noon on the following day that the Dowager left the palace, taking with her all her belongings. As she departed she turned and cast a black look at ...

— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton

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