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coming from the past or left to the future — especially a gift left in a will- I remember the look on Daddy's face the day Mr. Wyatt handed him the keys to the grocery store; Mr. Reuben and all those pictures on his walls, showing years and years of a legacy he's built; Ms.Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give
legacy = something passed from one generation to the next
- The Legacy of the Amistad Trial can be seen at the New Haven Colony Historical Society in New Haven, Connecticut.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- Then there were a number of small legacies.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- A house fire consumed all of his Civil War memorabilia, leaving almost no legacy other than his autobiography to set his wartime record straight.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- My body throbbed with the legacy of the border crossing, but the pain could not forestall sleep.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- This was his legacy: nothing is ever escaped.James Baldwin -- Notes of a Native Son
- I hear his grandson continues the legacy.Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- 3): The Legacy of TK: Scorched Earth and Scorched Hearts CHAMBERLAIN-Prom Night is history now.Stephen King -- Carrie
- She had dedicated herself, weeks ago, to making sense of what Inverarity had left behind, never suspecting that the legacy was America.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- Then there were a number of small legacies.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- I asked Joe whether he had heard if any of the other relations had any legacies?Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- She speaks of building a John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, so that people from around the world will know of her husband's legacy.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
- If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- Blood was coursing from black, festering slashes across several of the faces and throats, grisly legacies of Max's last encounter with the demon.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- He talked about the reaction of his fellow marines and the legacy of their distrust.Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
- As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain unknown.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- My legacy" "You were with him?" asked Max.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- Corones ... Blanche: Legacies!Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Yet these were the areas Mayor Schmoke knew would determine his legacy of success or failure.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
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