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  • If they act otherwise without just cause, it is my will that the whole estate, which I now bequeathe to my children, shall be applied to the Reparation of the Temple of the God

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • What gives its meaning to their living and their dying, what feeds that fire but the ways their ancestors bequeathe them? '

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • The American character is now generally acknowledged to be the most cosmopolitan of modern times; and a native of this country, all things being equal, is likely to form a less prescriptive idea of other nations than the inhabitants of countries whose neighborhood and history unite to bequeathe and perpetuate certain fixed notions.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

  • "Assuredly not; and sometimes the very greatest doctors bequeathe their own bodies to the dissecting room; especially if they die of some mysterious disease."

    Medoline Selwyn's Work Hattie E. Colter

  • On we swept, leaving behind the burning rocks and dreary sands of Egypt and Lower Nubia, the green woods and thick acacias of Dongola, the distant pyramids of Mount Birkel, and the ruins of Meroë, just discovered footmarks of Ancient Ethiopia descending the Nile to bequeathe her glory and civilization to Egypt.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love;

    Walt Whitman 1900

  • "I hereby give and bequeathe unto the rector and inhabitants of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the State of New York one thousand pounds, put out at interest, to be laid out in the annual income in sixpenny wheaten loaves of bread and distributed on every Sabbath morning after divine service, to such poor as shall appear most deserving."

    Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin 1900

  • Also I gyve and bequeathe to my daughter Ales, the thyrde parte of all my goodes moveable and unmoveable in fylde and towne after my dettes and leggessese performyde, besydes that goode she hath of her owne all this tyme.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • Item, I will that the residew of all my goodes, moveable and unmovable, my funeralles and my dettes dyschargyd, I gyve and bequeathe to my other children to be equaleye devidide amongeste them by the descreshyon of Adam Palmer, Hugh

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • "I bequeathe my long gowne eggyd with velvet to my father, Thomas Arden, in recompense of the money which he lent me, whom I make the Overseer of this my will, with my father-in-law, Edward Conway."

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

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