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    1. He could sell, rent, lease, bequeath, or do anything else with his land that an owner could do


    2. “The head of authority cannot live without the effort and support of the body! All of the body! Within him, lives the skill and wisdom of our master builder who had, while he was still with us, chosen him to bequeath his legacy to


    3. I must have him beside me, if I am to bequeath my legacy to my posterity!” She raised herself to the maximum elevation that her slender stature would allow


    4. And found them such heaven that I bequeath them my


    5. 24 And Eliezer answered Ishmael and said, Surely Abraham did throw you away with your mother, and swear that you should not inherit any thing of all he possesses, and to whom will he give all that he has, with all his treasures, but to me his servant, who has been faithful in his house, who has served him night and day, and has done all that he desired me? to me will he bequeath at his death all that he possesses


    6. 24 And Eliezer answered Ishmael and said Surely Abraham did throw you away with your mother and swear that you should not inherit any thing of all he possesses and to whom will he give all that he has with all his treasures but to me his servant who has been faithful in his house who has served him night and day and has done all that he desired me? to me will he bequeath at his death all that he possesses


    7. ‘Was he not a victim of human dishonesty as well, including mine and the inequity of life in general? Are not the Prasads of the world having the cake and eating it too? Do they really, in a way? Why, for all that, I’m no less a beneficiary of deceit, although by default, is it not so? Is it possible that Tara’s life is the radical answer to make it equal to all? But is it really? Well, it appears that life tends to manifest itself only in ironies, doesn’t it? Oh, while I married Sathyam in the hope of becoming a doctor, didn’t he bequeath me a fortune to build a clinic! How fate has taken off at a tangent in my life


    8. In a final letter to her he wrote these words: To you I bequeath the two candlesticks which are on the mantel


    9. “As we were told,” Continued my mother, “the cult lords initiate their sons into the fraternity so they could bequeath their cult-induced legacy to them upon their death


    10. " He gave him a letter and ordered him to give it to his sons and to bequeath it until they deliver it to the seal prophet

    11. “A daughter is to be born to Lady Tara and I! She will be called Buddhi and to her I bequeath my hidden estates on planet Mercury


    12. house at his own expense as a museum for his works, which he would bequeath to


    13. Nor does it make any sense to selectively bequeath that giving only to a small circle of close friends and relatives while walling off the rest of society from that giving


    14. So likewise in regard to the use or abuse of its surplus wealth, or to generous, free handed cooperation in good public uses, or to unabated efforts to accumulate and hoard to the last, or whether they administer or bequeath


    15. Their citizens who travel will send to it rare and costly things from every quarter of the globe they visit, while those who remain at home will give or bequeath to it of their treasures


    16. Springer, who was not content to bequeath funds from his estate at death, but gave during his life, and, in addition, gave- what was equally important-his time and business ability to insure the successful results which have been achieved


    17. the fortune of my surviving sister, that I could have wished; but I had prevailed on him to bequeath her two thousand pounds, and she determined to marry a lover,


    18. "She was," continued the housekeeper, "Her affection for him was still the chief sentiment in her heart; and he spoke without anger: he spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid that he could bequeath to guide her


    19. But the inheritance consisted in this only, a scrap of paper on which Spada had written:—'I bequeath to my beloved nephew my coffers, my books, and, amongst others, my breviary with the gold corners, which I beg he will preserve in remembrance of his affectionate uncle


    20. ngle in the second; which treasure I bequeath and leave en

    21. "I bequeath to Maximilian Morrel, captain of Spahis,—and son of my former patron, Pierre Morrel, shipowner at Marseilles,—the sum of twenty millions, a part of which may be offered to his sister Julia and brother-in-law Emmanuel, if he does not fear this increase of fortune may mar their happiness


    22. "Well, if you die," said she, "bequeath your fortune to others, for if you die I shall require nothing;" and, taking the paper, she tore it in four pieces, and threw it into the middle of the room


    23. “The guy who said, ‘The greatest gift I can bequeath mankind is to avoid procreation at all costs


    24. “Young Davey ’s got the plague, and he has no heirs to bequeath the inn to, so he’ s giving all the ale away,” the man said, grinning with delight


    25. Crump sought her advice on how to bequeath her property


    26. And at the sound of the first "give and bequeath"


    27. ‘Her affection for him was still the chief sentiment in her heart; and he spoke without anger: he spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid that he could bequeath to guide her


    28. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which stand on the chimney-piece


    29. Interestingly, she also wished to bequeath her psychiatrist, Marianne Kris, with a full 25 percent of her estate and—more surprisingly—Lee Strasberg with the other 75 percent


    30. Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency; and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life, and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave

    31. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it


    32. And yours of Helena to me bequeath,


    33. Terentieff,” said Ptitsin, who had bidden the prince good-night, and was now holding out his hand to Hippolyte; “I think you remark in that manuscript of yours, that you bequeath your skeleton to the Academy


    34. Many men who are unwilling to part with their riches during their lifetime bequeath them to public institutions


    1. Zolla II was bequeathed knowledge, much of which (some claimed) could never be revealed, for it could potentially undermine the very fabric of B’tari culture


    2. But Epicurus bequeathed his gardens to his own school


    3. Later, in 1879, he resided in a home on an estate in Beauvoir, Mississippi, that was bequeathed to him by a sympathetic lady of the South


    4. What our parents have bequeathed was a generation of lingering adolescents who continue to view the world as their own private playgrounds


    5. I included this evocation in my talk because, like many other citizens of that sprightly village, I fondly and nostalgically recalled that sacred icon which our ancestors from earlier centuries had bequeathed to us and which a mayor and a priest had, just a few years ago, secretly and foolishly demolished some four centuries after concrete documents rendered evident its existence


    6. He then announced, as he gave each of the six men a large folded vellum document, that the Countess von Brechtsler had bequeathed to each of them the land that they were farming


    7. “The Countess bequeathed it to us in her will,” replied Hermann


    8. I had officially bequeathed my office to them and due to our land’s laws; it was now theirs to do with what they wanted


    9. How could Zacchaeus not be angry at what God had bestowed on him? I could picture countless hours spent in front of the mirror as a mortal child, when Zacchaeus was growing up only to be overshadowed by the love his parents and their friends must have bequeathed on Adrinius


    10. As I released my grip more wholeheartedly, I experienced a pinch of guilt, a sense of sadness for the mortal boy who was in the end bequeathed nothing by no other than my blood brother

    11. I had mingled like Dracula wished, interwoven with the vampires at my home, particularly focusing at my sire’s request on the suitable bequeathed eligible bachelors of the time


    12. 10 And when Esau saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming at a distance, he fled, and by it escaped; and Esau took the valuable garments of Nimrod, which Nimrod's father had bequeathed to Nimrod, and with which Nimrod prevailed over the whole land, and he ran and concealed them in his house


    13. 10 And when Esau saw the mighty men of Nimrod coming at a distance he fled and by it escaped; and Esau took the valuable garments of Nimrod which Nimrod's father had bequeathed to Nimrod and with which Nimrod prevailed over the whole land and he ran and concealed them in his house


    14. Because my father had no male heir James was bequeathed the estate in my father’s will so long as his grandson would inherit after James’ death


    15. Upon his death, Nuke’s father, Moussa Habeen, bequeathed ten stone tablets to him, which were thought to contain important information concerning ET/human contacts


    16. borrowed from the abundant resources bequeathed to us as an inheritance by the holy Fathers


    17. To him, all the money he earned was actually money bequeathed to him from a striking young woman he’d met on the street one Friday afternoon


    18. Government through reduction and eventual abolishment of the estate tax will be recouped by capital gains taxes that your heirs will have to pay if and when they dispose of the property bequeathed to them


    19. Jesus neither embodied the messianic ideals of the Jewish prophets nor did he sufficiently rebuke those expectations to lay any legitimate claim to the title of messiah that his followers bequeathed on him


    20. Stan had bequeathed his whole estate, after taxes and funeral expenses, to Julie, and Mr Herrington was obviously surprised that she had shown no interest in claiming it

    21. It is part of that "damnosa haereditas" which Rome has bequeathed to our Church, and which has never been completely purged away


    22. Though most avail themselves of many of society's collective benefits bequeathed as commons to each other, those who avail themselves and utilize them the most never proportionally pay for those privileges


    23. “Wisdom is not bequeathed by age, but by reflecting on experiences that change the heart, for all wisdom springs from compassion


    24. “Trust is an intimacy bequeathed, for one's nakedness can always be revealed at a later date


    25. On his deathbed, he’d confessed his crimes to his oldest son and heir, Cyrus’s father, and bequeathed the maps into this man’s care


    26. He had a small stipend as vicar and drew income from rental properties bequeathed to All Hallows


    27. Here we find a method, the spirit of which is to believe that what is sought has been accomplished in order to accomplish it: a method bequeathed upon us by the same Plato who, outside of this sphere, could never find how the ideas became realities


    28. This would enable the children to retain and enjoy the wealth bequeathed to their father by the cult deity


    29. Jennings' network is, after all, the one that bequeathed America such edifying television fare as NYPD Blue, the raucous police drama renowned for its raunchy language and for broadcasting the bare backsides of its lead thespians


    30. Karl Henderson’s estate, are writing to you, to inform you that the following property and monies have been bequeathed to you

    31. ” Peter took a deep breath, and composed himself before perusing what had been bequeathed to him


    32. Karl had bequeathed to him, all his money from three Swiss accounts and Blake Hall


    33. generation because they bequeathed us greater mistrust than what they inherited from their


    34. bequeathed to others and especially the generation-next, one has to work his or her way around


    35. To Lea, he bequeathed the villa in Geneva, the two cars in the garage and a large amount of money for its upkeep


    36. In it, she bequeathed a respectable sum of money to Iason, Stratos"s son, and twenty paintings to me


    37. A legacy of the emperor who built it; the kings and czars who bequeathed gifts; of the conquerors and crusaders and prophets who protected it; of the scholars who enriched it with their knowledge, wisdom and manuscripts and finally, but principally, of the lowly tens of thousands who lived in it across the ages, served it and assured its existence


    38. And what did the church do, when a dying terrified soul begged to be allowed to give his confession of his sins before he died? The church refused to even listen to their confession… unless he bequeathed all of his worldly possessions to the church


    39. To atone for a sin: great lords had churches built, they bequeathed woodlands to the church


    40. It can be left to the families of the decedents; or it can be bequeathed for public purposes; or, finally, it can be administered by its possessors during their lives

    41. Beyond providing for the wife and daughters moderate sources of income, and very moderate allowances indeed, if any, for the sons, men may well hesitate; for it is no longer questionable that great sums bequeathed often work more for the injury than for- the good of the recipients


    42. Knowledge of the results of legacies bequeathed is not calculated to inspire the brightest hopes of much posthumous good being accomplished by them


    43. We have many such institutions,-Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Packer, and others,-but most of these have only been bequeathed, and it is impossible to extol any man greatly for simply leaving what he cannot take with him


    44. The owner of the leading paper there bequeathed its revenues forever to the city, to be used in beautifying it


    45. bequeathed me this poisoned chalice


    46. kindness that was bequeathed me,' he said with great emotion


    47. urge to mate had never been bequeathed them by the Source


    48. That some mad God with thought bequeathed


    49. stand and challenge that he bequeathed you, insured that as a child you strove for life


    50. Roy had bequeathed me his Kombi Van and a few thousand dollars cash, obviously his

































    1. In the end, unnoticed, they leave the stage, bequeathing their ill-gotten wealth to their kith and kin


    2. However, when they were finally confirmed by reliable sources, one bar-owner promptly jumped over his counter, bequeathing all the bottles of drink to his delighted customers, and ran off to stake his claim


    3. and he told me he was bequeathing me his work to pass on to Margot to do with what she


    4. Bequeathing hence types of athletic love,


    5. To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing, their affection


    6. The last Count of Spada, moreover, made me his heir, bequeathing to me this symbolic breviary, he bequeathed to me all it contained; no, no, make your mind satisfied on that point


    7. John Constable was satisfied with that story: outlaws were outside the law, as their name indicated, so there was no question of Sim bequeathing his property


    8. Then, wiping his tears away, he went out to them joyful and told them, “Brothers, I am your brother Joseph!” Let him read them further how happy old Jacob was on learning that his darling boy was still alive, and how he went to Egypt leaving his own country, and died in a foreign land, bequeathing his great prophecy that had lain mysteriously hidden in his meek and timid heart all his life, that from his offspring, from Judah, will come the great hope of the world, the Messiah and Saviour


    9. He was a widower, and had no relations left, excepting the prince’s aunt, a poor woman living on charity, who was herself at the point of death from dropsy; but who had time, before she died, to set Salaskin to work to find her nephew, and to make her will bequeathing her newly-acquired fortune to him


    10. The lives of the wealthy have reached that degree of security of which in olden times men only dreamed in fairy-tales, to the condition of the owner of the magic purse with the “inexhaustible ruble”; to a state where a man not only is entirely free from the law of labour for the sustenance of his life, but has the possibility of enjoying all the goods of this life without working, and of bequeathing to his children, or to anyone he chooses, this purse with the “inexhaustible ruble

    1. There had also been individual bequeaths to the Chapel of our Lady of the White Penitents of Salon, the Brothers of St


    2. billionaire of a wealth that God bequeaths to all humans at the time of their birth but they


    3. Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods,


    4. You know the affairs of the deceased are in perfect order, and her will bequeaths to Valentine the entire property of the Saint-Meran family; the notary showed me the documents yesterday, which will enable us to draw up the contract immediately


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    leave or give by will after one's death