Buffon had bequeathed his heart to a friend for whom he entertained the deepest affection.
For this purpose he bequeathed certain revenues: "but so it was that the times being unsettled, and the revenues falling short, nothing was done in order to the settling of a Professor till 1669.
Probably the little insect sitting contentedly on its blade of grass, in antediluvian times, when the liquid resin streamed over it, little thought, that it would thus be bequeathed to far-off generations.
After returning to her home, she bequeathedall her wealth to the bishop's church at Constance, on condition that a great festival in honor of St. Martin, should be held every year on the 11th of November.
How difficult it would be to learn a language, if it were bequeathed to us, merely through a dictionary, like corn in a sack, which we should first have to grind into flour, and then to make into bread.
What Leibniz bequeathed him was the undefined idea that knowledge of matters of fact rests upon the principle of sufficient reason.
Leibniz never thought of investigating the formal logic bequeathed by scholasticism, with a view to determining its adequacy as philosophic method.
A pleasant pastime, Henry Trevethlan, have you bequeathed to your children.
And you have bequeathed your hatred to your children.
Ptolemy Alexander, dying in the year 80, had bequeathed both Egypt and Cyprus to Rome; but the Senate had delayed to enter on their bequest, preferring to share the fines which Ptolemy's natural heirs were required to pay for being spared.
The father had bequeathed the crown to the two elder ones, Cleopatra, who was turned sixteen, and a brother two years younger.
After being guided to that home by the blessed sound, she presented a chime of bells to the church, and, upon her death, years after, it was found she had bequeathed money to keep up the ringing of the curfew bell for ever.
The sisters, in their will, bequeathedto the churchwardens of the parish of Biddenden, a piece of land which is known as "Bread and Cheese Land.
He was the possessor of a very fine library, which he bequeathed to the republic of Genoa.
From 1794 to his death he was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy; and some fine examples of his work have beenbequeathed by private owners to the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
There are good grounds for the surmise that in any case the wine was supplied by the son-in-law, and that the silver-gilt bowl bequeathed to Judith was used upon this occasion.
Leicester had employed this means of confirming himself in her favour, and had bequeathed it to his successors.
Grandfather proceeded to say, that, when Master Cheever died, he bequeathed the chair to the most learned man that was educated at his school, or that had ever been born in America.
So Grandfather made an end of Cotton Mather, telling his auditors that he died in 1728, at the age of sixty-five, and bequeathed the chair to Elisha Cooke.
A hundred, a thousand good deeds and enterprises could be carried out and upheld with the money this old woman has bequeathed to a monastery.
Cardinal Mazarin, by his will, bequeathed it to the college which he founded, and in 1688 it was made public.
As a mark of kind feeling, Frontenac had bequeathed to the intendant a valuable crucifix, and to Madame de Champigny a reliquary which he had long been accustomed to wear.
To her he bequeathed all the remainder of his small property, and he also directed that his heart should be sent her in a case of lead or silver.
A confessor was sent for, and he bequeathed his kingdom to his son Henry.
To Henry Walter Grey he bequeathed the gross sum of five thousand pounds, over and above all his just claims against the estate.
This was bequeathed in grateful remembrance of many years of careful guardianship of the testator's fortune in the past, and in consideration of the duties and obligations imposed upon the legatee by the will.
Her father's will being read to her, she seemed extremely pleased with the article in favour of Mr. Glanville, wishing him joy of the estate that was bequeathed to him, with a most enchanting sweetness.
That age has bequeathed to the Church a vast body of controversial writing which she could ill afford to part with at the present day.
In his testament, with the tacit approbation of his companions, he bequeathed the sceptre to the firm and intrepid virtue of Omar.
Alexander conquered with the arms of Philip, but the two heroes who preceded Charlemagne bequeathed him their name, their examples, and the companions of their victories.
The wound was mortal; and the Turkish prince bequeathed a dying admonition to the pride of kings.
A king of the ancient Bulgaria bequeathed to his five sons a last lesson of moderation and concord.
Ibrahim, the son of Aglab, the lieutenant of the vigilant and rigid Harun, bequeathed to the dynasty of the Aglabite the inheritance of his name and power.
My Uncle Manuel was not so fortunate in business as his father had been, though he saved the capital my grandfather had bequeathed to him.
When my grandfather died, he bequeathed his fortune to my father, who also inherited his title, though he gave the other two sons enough to enable them to make a start in business.
His grandfather, as though he had foreseen the future, had bequeathed him the greater part of his property, and Bolingbroke began the world under the happiest auspices of birth and fortune.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bequeathed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
