He has taken the first floor of a good house, and appropriates three rooms opening one into another for a meeting-house, placing his pulpit, which is on wheels, in the doorway, so that when the meeting hour is over he can put the pulpit aside and make the rooms his dwelling.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
Who is it that selfishly appropriates what was meant for mankind?
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
The head of the family appropriates one of these branches and advances along it seriously, with elevated tail, while the others group themselves about him.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon