Sentence examples for my chattels from inspiring English sources

Here's Petruchio in The Shrew: "She is my goods, my chattels, she is my house, my household stuff, my field, my barn, my horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing".

She still, however, announces that her husband is "my goods, my chattels... my any thing", still subjects him to sensory and sleep-deprivation and, crucially, still declares that a lasting marriage is based on "awful rule and right supremacy".

The obligation of impartiality does not apply to my wife who is not my chattel," he told Westminster reporters.

("My argument is that she is not an appendage of her husband," he said. "She's my wife, but she's not my chattel").

I still have many of Crystal's 100 words rattling in my head – fopdoodle, chattels and matrix – and was bewitched by Sebag Montefiore's account of Stalin's path from cobbler's son to revolutionary via poetry and a brutal seminary.

675 (2002); Mary Anne Bendotoff and Elizabeth R. Gosse, "Stay Off My Cyberproperty!": Trespass to Chattels on the Internet (2001), 6 Intell.

My body is a Carthaginian chattel, but my spirit is yours.

I lived in a pre-war building and it chilled me to consider that when it was built, my ancestors were chattel slaves.

But when you've got Catholic bishops sitting high on their horses droning on like wheezing, out-of-touch absolutists decreeing outrageous demands and treating women of their flock as if they were chattel, my very last nerve snaps.

Chattels were more freely alienable.

"Women were your chattels," said Justice Thirlwall.