bequeath

• “And lastly, (for there is no end of enumerating every particular of his glory,) with one word bequeath all this power and splendor to his posterity?”

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell

• “A loophole in the rules allows council house tenants to "bequeath" their tenancies when they die.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “The dictionary meaning of "bequeath": 1) to leave (property, etc.) to another by one's will; 2) to hand down, to pass on.”

  Museum Blogs

• “I have seen many men strip, in gymnasium and training quarters, men of good blood and upbringing, but I have never seen one who stripped to better advantage than this young sot of two-and-twenty, this young god doomed to rack and ruin in four or five short years, and to pass hence without posterity to receive the splendid heritage it was his to bequeath.”

  A MAN AND THE ABYSS

• “Flexibility is nothing to bequeath," he mutters into his armpit more escape from trunk”

  Fictionaut: Of Midwest Contortionists In Extremis

• “In fact they are many of you, your children, your grandchildren and the legacy we bequeath must not be defeat and denial but glory and the celebration of their genius and ingenuity.”

  The Huffington Post: Rick Tumlinson: Apollo's Children and the NewSpace Revolution

• “If you're passing the house down to one person, you typically can give it to him or her outright as a gift while you are still alive or bequeath it in your will.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Create a Plan to Pass On the Family Cottage

• “It should be because we want to live up to the example of public servants like John Roll and Gabby Giffords, who knew first and foremost that we are all Americans, and that we can question each other's ideas without questioning each other's love of country, and that our task, working together, is to constantly widen the circle of our concern so that we bequeath the American dream to future generations.”

  The Washington Post: Obama saves Tucson memorial from the unseemly

• “We should be civil because we want to live up to the example of public servants like John Roll and Gabby Giffords, who knew first and foremost that we are all Americans, and that we can question each other's ideas without questioning each other's love of country and that our task, working together, is to constantly widen the circle of our concern so that we bequeath the American Dream to future generations.”

  The Huffington Post: Obama Arizona Memorial Speech: FULL TEXT & VIDEO

• “He also takes in a car-cleaner named Tony (Rupert Grint), who he sees as a potential apprentice, to whom he can bequeath his wealth of professional knowledge.”

  The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Wild Target

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