Read full poem →our old players, who kept most of their plays many years in manuscript as
mere play-house properties, to be chaneed and mangled by every new
actor's humour and fancy. As this was the case of most of our old plays,
Dictionary Entry
Something that is owned.
In a Sentence
“Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).”
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Poetry examples for “properties”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →DC, Murray FJ, Shinn AP. 2019. Prophylactic
properties of biofloc- or Nile tilapia-conditioned
water against Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection of
Read full poem →improbable or frankly impossible. The language is frequently archaic and
designedly unfamiliar. Much of the machinery and properties used in
carrying on the story, such as speaking myrtles, magic mirrors, swords,
Read full poem →sheep-raising has become a lost industry. Farm life in
England seems ideal. All properties show thrift and
intelligence of a high order both in cultivation and
Read full poem →had time to study them. They bind up with undisputed ethics more or
less preposterous theories concerning life and death, the properties
of matter, man, God, the universe, the laws of nature, the food we
Read full poem →IIT Whole numbers; addition, multiplication,
and subtraction defined; properties of
operations; algorithms, numeration
Read full poem →A-1 Plumbing & Heating 4143FthiBI .ANdovr 1-3200
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Read full poem →Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art;
What would'st thou say? shall both our properties by thee be spoke,
—Nothing more endless, nothing sooner broke?
Read full poem →Some ends, some means; yea plants, yea stones detest,
And love; all, all some properties invest.
If I an ordinary nothing were,
Read full poem →committed within the sacred precinct, and turned it, not upon
minute and rhetorical detail, but upon the general awful properties
of this consecrated ground. Lucan's fine description of the
