All 24 Uses of
legacy
in
The House of Mirth
- If I inherit, I shall have to be careful of my figure," she mused, while the lawyer droned on through a labyrinth of legacies.†
Chpt 2.4
- In Gerty Farish's sitting-room, whither a hansom had carried the two friends, Lily dropped into a chair with a faint sound of laughter: it struck her as a humorous coincidence that her aunt's legacy should so nearly represent the amount of her debt to Trenor.†
Chpt 2.4
- The need of discharging that debt had reasserted itself with increased urgency since her return to America, and she spoke her first thought in saying to the anxiously hovering Gerty: "I wonder when the legacies will be paid."†
Chpt 2.4
- But Miss Farish could not pause over the legacies; she broke into a larger indignation.†
Chpt 2.4
- "My dear Gerty, you wouldn't have me let the head-waiter see that I've nothing to live on but Aunt Julia's legacy?†
Chpt 2.4
- That obligation discharged, she would have but a thousand dollars of Mrs. Peniston's legacy left, and nothing to live on but her own small income, which was considerably less than Gerty Farish's wretched pittance; but this consideration gave way to the imperative claim of her wounded pride.†
Chpt 2.4
- In her ignorance of legal procrastinations she had supposed that her legacy would be paid over within a few days of the reading of her aunt's will; and after an interval of anxious suspense, she wrote to enquire the cause of the delay.
Chpt 2.4 *legacy = a gift left in a will
- There was another interval before Mrs. Peniston's lawyer, who was also one of the executors, replied to the effect that, some questions having arisen relative to the interpretation of the will, he and his associates might not be in a position to pay the legacies till the close of the twelvemonth legally allotted for their settlement.†
Chpt 2.4
- The strangeness of entering as a suppliant the house where she had so long commanded, increased Lily's desire to shorten the ordeal; and when Miss Stepney entered the darkened drawing-room, rustling with the best quality of crape, her visitor went straight to the point: would she be willing to advance the amount of the expected legacy?†
Chpt 2.4
- Did she think that only the payment of the legacies had been delayed?†
Chpt 2.4
- That she was living alone like this because there was no one else for her to go to, and that she really hadn't more than enough to keep alive on till the wretched little legacy was paid?†
Chpt 2.6
- "Of course, you know, it hasn't come to the employment agencies and the painted blotting-pads yet; but I'm rather hard-up just for the moment, and if I could find something to do—notes to write and visiting-lists to make up, or that kind of thing—it would tide me over till the legacy is paid.†
Chpt 2.8
- And she is very poor—you know Mrs. Peniston cut her off with a small legacy, after giving her to understand that she was to have everything.†
Chpt 2.8
- "You show such an intimate acquaintance with my affairs that I suppose you mean—till my aunt's legacy is paid?"†
Chpt 2.9
- "But Gerty does not happen to know," Miss Bart rejoined, "that I owe every penny of that legacy."†
Chpt 2.9
- But I understood you got a legacy from her——†
Chpt 2.10
- I got ten thousand dollars; but the legacy is not to be paid till next summer.†
Chpt 2.10
- Unfortunately I had spent the money before I discovered my mistake; and so my legacy will have to go to pay it back.†
Chpt 2.10
- She knew that to Gerty and Mrs. Fisher she was only passing through a temporary period of probation, since they believed that the apprenticeship she was serving at Mme. Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.†
Chpt 2.10
- But to Lily herself, aware that the legacy could not be put to such a use, the preliminary training seemed a wasted effort.†
Chpt 2.10
- And the realization of this fact brought her recurringly face to face with the temptation to use the legacy in establishing her business.†
Chpt 2.10
- 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.†
Chpt 2.13
- The legacy, then, had been paid sooner than Gerty had led him to expect.†
Chpt 2.14
- A rapid glance at the stubs of the last cheques, all of which bore the date of the previous day, showed that between four or five hundred dollars of the legacy had been spent in the settlement of bills, while the remaining thousands were comprehended in one cheque, made out, at the same time, to Charles Augustus Trenor.†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(legacy) coming from the past or left to the futurein various senses including:
- in law -- a gift given through a will -- "She left a legacy of $10,000 to her niece."
- of a situation -- resulting from the past -- "Today's debt problem is a legacy of profligate spending by prior administrations."
- of culture -- a practice passed from one generation to the next -- "The city has along legacy of bribes and corruption."
- of technology -- something that still uses old technology -- "We're using a legacy software that only the old-timers know how to update."
- of a member or potential member of an organization -- the child of a previous member -- "She is a legacy candidate."