All 7 Uses of
bequeath
in
Les Miserables
- She had a small property, which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community.†
Chpt 1.5 *bequeathed = give or pass down
- It is one of the papers in his own handwriting which he has bequeathed to us.†
Chpt 1.7
- This holy woman, too poor to wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at her death.†
Chpt 2.6
- These pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud.†
Chpt 4.10
- "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thenardiers which his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?"†
Chpt 4.14bequeathed = give or pass down
- 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.†
Chpt 5.5
- I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which stand on the chimney-piece.†
Chpt 5.9
Definition:
give or pass down -- often upon death in a will