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leave (or give by will) usually upon death- It is our duty to bequeath a better world to our grandchildren.
bequeath = leave (or give by will) usually upon death
- His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brotherWilliam Shakespeare -- As You Like It
- Divide me like a brib'd buck, ... my horns I bequeath your husbands.William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Bequeathed down from many ancestorsWilliam Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
- She bequeaths her stuffed toys to Gloria's fourteen-year-old daughter.Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
- A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother
Did ever love so dearly:William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra - We bequeath it to you.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- It was a fluke that they even had a cello; they're very expensive and fragile. But some old literature professor from the university had died and bequeathed his Hamburg to our school.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- When Esperanza, my mother, returned from her wedding trip, all that she found under the remains of what had been the ranch was this cookbook, which she bequeathed to me when she died, and which tells in each of its recipes this story of a love interred.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry
- As for my skeleton, I bequeath it to the Medical Academy for the benefit of science.Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
- ...you are probably aware I have some property to bequeath to my child?Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
- Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.Austen, Jane -- Sense and Sensibility
- Come; I'll fill your grave up: stir; nay, come away; Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him Dear life redeems you.William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale
- Before he died he handed over his pocket-book to me, and bequeathed me his boots—the same that he once inherited from Kemmerich.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- How was I to imagine the Grand Master would go to such ends to deceive me and bequeath the keystone to an estranged granddaughter?Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- And the exile, separated from the beloved France so dear to his heart, died a lingering death on that rock and bequeathed his great deeds to posterity.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- For a while, I toyed with the idea of bequeathing the entire collection to Andrea Lockerby, if only because she, too, had loved Daniel.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- They reach out to people, hosting dinner parties, bequeathing little bits of themselves to their friends.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- The uncle was blood proud and had bequeathed Holmes his estate on condition he first adopt the uncle's name in full.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
bequeathing = being left or given to another after one's death
bequeath = leave or give by will after one's death
bequeathed = left to or given to another after death
bequeaths = leave (or give by will) usually upon death
bequeath = give
bequeath = leave (or give by will) usually upon death
bequeathed = left upon his death
bequeathed = left upon death