All 12 Uses
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Absalom, Absalom!
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- Though the aunt was gone, she still managed to bequeath and invoke upon each of these expeditions something of the old flavor of grim sortie, more than ever now against a foe who did not know that he was at war.†
Chpt 3 *
- She possessed two now, this one likewise bequeathed to her by the aunt who taught her both to keep house and how to fit clothes by climbing out a window one night, though this second gift developed late (you might say, repercussed) due to the fact that when the aunt left, Miss Rosa was not yet large enough to be able to use the discarded clothing even by cutting the garments down.†
Chpt 3bequeathed = give or pass down
- that other something which has bequeathed not even name for sound of bee or bird or flower's scent or light or sun or love;†
Chpt 5
- It can be told; I could take that many sentences, repeat the bold blank naked and outrageous words just as he spoke them, and bequeath you only that same aghast and outraged unbelief I knew when I comprehended what be meant; or take three thousand sentences and leave you only that Why?†
Chpt 5
- —Yes, Rosa Goldfield engaged at last who, lacking the fact that her sister had bequeathed her at least something of shelter and kin, might have become a charge upon the town: and now Rosie Coldfield, lose him, weep him; found a man but failed to keep him; Rosa Goldfield who would be right only right, being right, is not enough for women who had rather be wrong than just that who want the man who was wrong to admit it.†
Chpt 5bequeathed = give or pass down
- For a time, during the first days or weeks or months, the woodsman's instinct which he had acquired from the environment where he grew up or maybe had been bequeathed him by the two brothers who had vanished, one of which had been as far West as the Mississippi River one time—bequeathed him along with the worn-out buckskin garments and such which they left in the cabin when they departed the last time for good—and which he had sharpened by boy's practice at small game and such, kept him oriented so that he could have (so he said) found his way back to the mountain cabin in time.†
Chpt 7
- For a time, during the first days or weeks or months, the woodsman's instinct which he had acquired from the environment where he grew up or maybe had been bequeathed him by the two brothers who had vanished, one of which had been as far West as the Mississippi River one time—bequeathed him along with the worn-out buckskin garments and such which they left in the cabin when they departed the last time for good—and which he had sharpened by boy's practice at small game and such, kept him oriented so that he could have (so he said) found his way back to the mountain cabin in time.†
Chpt 7
- And as for a little matter like a spot of negro blood ' not needing to talk much, say much either, not needing to say I seem to have been born into this world with so few fathers that I have too many brothers to outrage and shame while alive and hence too many descendants to bequeath my little portion of hurt and harm to, dead;†
Chpt 8
- all right, who had had so many fathers as to have neither love nor pride to receive or inflict, neither honor nor shame to share or bequeath;†
Chpt 8
- this flesh and bone and spirit which stemmed from the same source that mine did, but which sprang in quiet peace and contentment and ran in steady even though monotonous sunlight, where that which he bequeathed me sprang in hatred and outrage and unforgiving and ran in shadow what could I not mold of this malleable and eager clay which that father himself could not—to what shape of what good there might, must, be in that blood and none handy to take and mold that portion of it in me until too late or what moments when he might have told himself that it was nonsense, it could not be true;†
Chpt 8bequeathed = give or pass down
- Because he knew exactly what he wanted; it was just the saying of it—the physical touch even though in secret, hidden—the living touch of that flesh warmed before he was born by the same blood which it had bequeathed him to warm his own flesh with, to be bequeathed by him in turn to run hot and loud in veins and limbs after that first flesh and then his own were dead.†
Chpt 8
- Because he knew exactly what he wanted; it was just the saying of it—the physical touch even though in secret, hidden—the living touch of that flesh warmed before he was born by the same blood which it had bequeathed him to warm his own flesh with, to be bequeathed by him in turn to run hot and loud in veins and limbs after that first flesh and then his own were dead.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(bequeath) give or pass down -- often upon death in a will
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)