Citations:claim


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I told him, that although all these that he named might claim kindred of me, and that rightly, for indeed they were my relations according to the flesh; yet since I became a pilgrim, they have disowned me, as I also have rejected them; and therefore they were to me now no more than if they had never been of my lineage.


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * When this was past, the old man asked me if he should put me into a method to make my claim to my plantation. I told him I thought to go over to it myself.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."