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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 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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Colonel Henry Parkman High has been endowed with a valuable new prize by the generous bequest of the late Mrs. Winifred Griffen Prior of Toronto, whose noted brother Richard E. Griffen, will be remembered, as he often vacationed here in Port Ticonderoga and enjoyed sailing on our river.† (source)
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Dumbledore left you a second bequest, Potter.† (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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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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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)bequests = gifts specified in a will (upon death)
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The Hustings—Bolger Bequest.† (source)
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I imagine there would be a few bequests to personal friends or charities.† (source)
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She'd kept the appointment she'd made before Al's accident, visiting the substantial oak-paneled office and learning the details of David Henry's bequest.† (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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Minnie loved her husband-to-be and trusted him, but she did not know that Alexander Bond was an alias for Holmes himself, or that Benton Lyman actually was Holmes's assistant Benjamin Pitezel—and that with a few strokes of his pen her beloved Harry had taken possession of the bulk of her dead uncle's bequest.† (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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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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