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Example sentences for "large estate"

  • Supposing I am informed of a large estate bequeathed to me by some benefactor.

  • He was often distressed for ready money, though he had a large estate; and his agent well knew how to humour him in his hatred of business.

  • He had a large estate, yet he was one of the poorest men in the county; for no matter what a person's fortune may be, if he spend more than his income, he must be poor.

  • The young lord need not consider such trifles now," he said, "Spychow is a large estate.

  • God has given you now a large estate, so that you are wealthier than before, and moreover the Spychow treasury is not empty.

  • It is a large estate; what of it, it is not yet his.

  • Eumenes, a young man of great abilities, inherited a large estate from a father, long eminent in conspicuous employments.

  • He was proprietor of a large estate, which bore the name of Newland.

  • Her second son was made the residuary legatee, and inherited a large estate.

  • Jonathan Amory died in 1797, leaving a large estate to his brother John and John's children.

  • Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

  • United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

  • This is the old Law; and the course of things since has caused, as was observed above, that high office to devolve almost exclusively on Persons of large Estate, or their near connections.

  • Compassionate as he was and in the possession of a large estate, he made the bliss of his wealth flow in all directions by his great gifts of charity.

  • In consequence of the excessive favour of his destiny, and owing to his own great activity, he had acquired a large estate.

  • It is righteousness that procures him great happiness, not the possession of a large estate.

  • He accumulated a large estate, and became a member of the house of burgesses and of the council.

  • Proprietor of a large estate, he suffered repeated and heavy losses from the depredations of the British.

  • When he died, in the eighties, he bequeathed a large estate, consisting of City and County acreage and lots, in the disposition of which he unrighteously cut off his only niece.

  • Repetto had really hated this brother and, in consequence, he had very unwillingly bequeathed him his large estate.

  • He was a great friend of Lord Roehampton, had a large estate in the same county, and had refused an earldom.

  • A man with a large estate is said to have a great stake in the country because some hundreds of people or so are more or less dependent on him.

  • The Lady Lidhursts, from being very small fortunes, became heiresses to a large estate.

  • At length it happened that, by misconduct like our own, a large estate, which had been purchased from us, was again exposed to the best bidder.

  • Turpicula was the heiress of a large estate, and having lost her mother in infancy, was committed to a governess, whom misfortunes had reduced to suppleness and humility.

  • A large estate, with a few people on it, obviously its bailiffs and the serfs of its landlord, constituted the alu.

  • One of the most important is that, when a favorite, or well-deserving official, had acquired a large estate, the king by charter granted him an immunity from these obligations.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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