Both Uses of
bequeath
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- After a brief period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we learned that she had bequeathed me to her sister's daughter, a child of five years old.†
Chpt 1 *bequeathed = give or pass down
- Miss Emily Flint, the little girl to whom I had been bequeathed, was now in her sixteenth year.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
give or pass down -- often upon death in a will