His charity extends no further than to mountebanks and sow-gelders, to whom he bequeaths the seasons of the year to kill or torture by.
Next to these he affects lotteries naturally, and bequeaths the best prize in his will aforehand; when his hopes fall he's blank.
He bequeaths some pastures and meadows at Enfield to his wife.
He then transcribes the article which so gratefully mentions this nobleman, and the ladies of his family, in relation to the rings she bequeaths them, about which he desires their commands.
Each generation or decade or year manufactures its own supply of slang words, and seldom bequeaths any of them as a permanent inheritance.
Thus, he calls Guillaume de Villon his "more than father," thanks him with a great show of sincerity for having helped him out of many scrapes, and bequeaths him his portion of renown.
To readers of the poet it will recall, with a flavour of satire, that characteristic passage in which he bequeaths his spectacles - with a humorous reservation of the case - to the hospital for blind paupers known as the Fifteen-Score.
To his son Nicolo he bequeaths a silver-wrought girdle of vermilion silk, two silver spoons, a silver cup without cover (or saucer?
From the proceeds to come in from his partnership with his brothers Nicolo and Maffeo, he bequeaths 200 lire to his daughter Maroca.
Felice and his successor that Maffeo bequeaths an annuity to procure their prayers for the souls of his father, his mother, and himself, through after the successor the annuity is to pass on the same condition to the senior priest of S.
The Elder Marco Polo in his Will (1280) bequeaths to the Franciscan Friars of the place a house of his in Soldachia, reserving life occupation to his own son and daughter, then residing in it.
The rest of all my goods he gives and bequeaths to the foresaid John Drawlace and Thomas Sowrale, chaplains.
In his will dated 1430 William Stowe the elder, of Ripon, a retainer in the household of the earl of Northumberland, bequeaths his silver livery Anglice cressaunt and his livery Anglice coller to the shrine of St. Wilfrid.
Aragon bequeaths his kingdom to the Knights Templars, ii.
Matilda (countess) bequeaths her dominions to Rome, i.
The will bequeaths numerous legacies of nonches, beds, and cups of gold; and abundantly provides for chauntries, masses, and obits.
He bequeaths to the Monastery of the Carthusians--"A cup of gold, set with emeralds and rubies; also a pix of gold with XLII.
Her heart she bequeaths to the Chapel of St. Bernardin, within the Church of the Cordeliers at Angers, to be placed beside that of René.
In the Anglo-Saxon annals, an archbishop bequeaths a ring in his will, and a king sends a golden ring, enriched with a precious stone, as a present to a bishop.
Anne Barett (1504) bequeaths to Our Lady of Walsingham 'my maryeng ryng, with all thyngys hangyng theron.
In another part of his will he bequeaths to "Thomais Brews, esquiyer, my crampe ryng with blak innamel, and a part silvir and gilt.
Lady Anne Drury (1621) bequeaths 'tenne pounds a peece to all my brothers to buy them ringes, and twentie pounds to be bestowed in ringes of tenne shillinges amongest my freinds whom they shall thinke fitte.
Queen of Wurtemberg, in which shebequeaths to the Princess Augusta, among other costly objects, a ring containing a watch, set with brilliants.
By her will in 1570, she bequeaths a gold ring to William Harrington, her brother Martin's son.
And in 1535 Edmund Lee bequeaths to ‘my nece Thwartow my gold ryng w^t a turkes, and a crampe ryng of gold w^t all.
Numitor, who was the eldest of the family, he bequeaths the crown, of two brothers, Numitor and Amulius.
Proca is king; this man begets Numitor; to Numitor he bequeathsthe ancient throne of the Silvian race.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bequeaths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
