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Example sentences for "bequest"

Lexicographically close words:
bequeath; bequeathe; bequeathed; bequeathing; bequeaths; bequests; bequethe; beran; berate; berated
  1. The Corcoran bequest at Washington is of minor importance.

  2. In 1903 a large bequest was made to the Gallery by Colonel Temple West.

  3. The Wheeler bequest is available for the purchase of English pictures only.

  4. These letters, sire, contain the last bequest Of Posa to Prince Carlos.

  5. Smith, undertook the building of a new parsonage, and with the bequest of $500 from the estate of our departed brother, E.

  6. The history of the Pietrzycki bequest to Dayton makes up the most interesting and unique chapter in the history of the town.

  7. The bequest to the village of Waldorf has resulted in the founding of an institution that appears to be doing a great deal of good in a quiet German manner.

  8. We need not enlarge on the success which has attended the bequest for the Astor Library,--a bequest to which Mr. William B.

  9. It is a matter of the highest interest to know how it could happen that, in such a city, a bequest for such a purpose should be so monstrously misappropriated.

  10. Twenty-five thousand dollars he left to Columbia College, but unfortunately repented, and annulled the bequest in a codicil.

  11. The magnitude of the bequest was itself one cause of its misappropriation, and the habits of the country were another.

  12. And on my failing to express unbounded admiration for the purchase, I was asked if I was aware that the Academy had purchased "The Annunciation" for the Chantrey Bequest Fund.

  13. The year following John Harvard's bequest the Cambridge printing-press was set up, the only press in America north of Mexico.

  14. I wish I could, for I believe it would please him more than the bequest of a fortune.

  15. Most singular bequest that Founder ever transmitted, it has singularly been fulfilled.

  16. Goods you don't earn, but by bequest acquire, A pleasant wholesome house and constant fire.

  17. To the bequest of Bishop Sparke the Cathedral is indebted for the East windows, and those in the clerestory of the Choir, and the fund is not yet exhausted.

  18. The painted windows, which have been supplied partly by individual donors, partly by a bequest of Bishop Sparke.

  19. The public bequest is the popular atonement for large fortunes, but such atonement does not efface the sufferings of poverty and want they entail.

  20. When only death can conquer selfishness, its noblest bequest merits but little praise.

  21. The case related to a bequest by one Nadir Baxter for the political restoration of the Jews in Jerusalem.

  22. The Countess exhibited a mourning-ring on her finger, Mrs. Bonner's bequest to her.

  23. Mrs. Bonner's bequest had been a severe blow to Sir Franks.

  24. This rich bequest was disputed by Aristonikus.

  25. So the first portion of Helen's bequest went to Aberdeen University.

  26. She was gratified to learn that the Special Bequest was no bar to the participation of the Association in the general advantages provided by Mr. Gardner for the blind.

  27. On six successive Sunday evenings, beginning twelve Sundays before Christmas, the old parish church bells are rung for one hour, complying with the terms of a bequest left by a merchant named Gofer, over two centuries ago.

  28. No statement is given of the process in our Saviour's mind, that led him to make the bequest of the Cross, that legacy of love.

  29. It guarantees to every family the liberty so dearly prized by the old parent races of the Germanic North, whilst it gathers them into a great nation under the guidance of that law which was the bequest of the Roman empire to the world.

  30. London; a species of benevolence silently handed from generation to generation; a bequest not inforced by forms of law, and parchment and seals.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bequest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bequest; birthright; codicil; devise; donation; endowment; entail; grant; heirloom; heritage; inheritance; legacy; patrimony; primogeniture; probate; reversion; succession; will