It is plain that contrary attributes must needs be present in subjects which belong to the same species or genus.
Moreover, it is necessary that pairs of contraries should in all cases either belong to the same genus or belong to contrary genera or be themselves genera.
Any student can belong to it who is a German by birth.
Any student can belong to it who is European by birth.
Therefore it is that these Rhine castles thrill me with a sense of poetry; they
belong to the grand historic life of humanity, and raise up for me the vision of an echo.
Kasatsky did not
belong to the first two sets, but was readily welcomed in the others.
But by my faith do I
belong to beer, bottles 'n' bottles of it 'n' mountains of bottles of it enough to sink the ship.
Most of the animals and plants which live close round any small piece of ground, could live on it (supposing it not to be in any way peculiar in its nature), and may be said to be striving to the utmost to live there; but, it is seen, that where they come into the closest competition with each other, the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.
Asa Gray's 'Manual of the Flora of the Northern United States,' 260 naturalised plants are enumerated, and these belong to 162 genera.
They seemed more directly to
belong to the Arangi and to him.
IT WAS an high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which
belong to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that
belong to adversity, are to be admired.
'They
belong to King Grisly-beard, hadst thou taken him, they had all been thine.' 'Ah!
belong to - be a part or adjunct; "the uniform looks like it belonged to a museum collection"; "These pages don't belong"