Sample Sentences forbequest (auto-selected)
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The total bequest was over a million dollars.bequest = a gift specified in a will (to be given upon death)
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His bequests are much as Red was himself—very simple and straightforward. (source)bequests = gifts specified in a will (upon death)
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The fourth paragraph contained a $50,000 bequest to Lettie Lang.† (source)
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The final two years of his college education had been paid for with a forty-thousand dollar bequest left by a friend of the family's; more than twenty-four thousand dollars remained at the time of Chris's graduation, money his parents thought he intended to use for law school.† (source)
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The school had been largely rebuilt with a massive bequest from an oil family some years before in a peculiar style of Puritan grandeur, as though Versailles had been modified for the needs of a Sunday school.† (source)
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That is another bequest from an early-dying parent, her image ever more childlike and powerless compared to your own advancing age.† (source)
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Not even a compromising bequest!† (source)
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I imagine there would be a few bequests to personal friends or charities.† (source)
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There was just such an informality in the terms of the bequest as to give me no hope from law.† (source)
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So many mulatto mistresses were left substantial fortunes in the wills of white property owners that the Jamaica legislature once passed a law capping bequests at two thousand pounds (which, at the time, was an enormous sum).† (source)
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Besides, the words Legacy, Bequest, go side by side with the words, Death, Funeral.† (source)
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Thomas L. Foster, noted philanthropist, had died and had left, among larger bequests, the modest sum of one hundred thousand dollars to Ellsworth M. Toohey, "my friend and spiritual guide—in appreciation of his noble mind and true devotion to humanity."† (source)
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Dumbledore left you a second bequest, Potter.† (source)
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According to what he said, I was, except for a few minor bequests to servants, the sole heir.† (source)
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As you may or may not be aware, any bequest in excess of a certain amount is subject to taxation by the United States government, or the IRS.† (source)
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The cheque represented the full amount of Mrs. Peniston's legacy, and the letter accompanying it explained that the executors, having adjusted the business of the estate with less delay than they had expected, had decided to anticipate the date fixed for the payment of the bequests.† (source)
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