Now the wealth did not weigh on me: now it was not a mere bequest of coin,--it was a legacy of life, hope, enjoyment.
and what sort of an effect will the bequest have on you?
And, in making this
bequest, I wi sh to place it on record that I am not only expressing my own sense of Madame Lecompte's attachment and fidelity in the capacity of my housekeeper, but that I also believe myself to be executing the intentions of my deceased father, who, but for the circumstance of his dying intestate, would have left Madame Lecompte, in his will, the same token of grateful regard for her services which I now leave her in mine."
Peggotty derived a steady, though certainly a very moderate income from the
bequest of his late brother-in-law, I promised to do so.
The fifth sharer in Edmond's
bequest, was his own father."
They seemed to imply that the
bequest would be accompanied with a command that the articles bequeathed should remain concealed from every inquisitive eye and that I was very much mistaken if I thought she was the person to depart from an injunction so solemn.
The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or
bequest.
Martin has left and gone on a cruise in the South Pacific, in one of his uncle's ships; the old magpie, as disreputable as ever, his last
bequest to Arthur, lives in the joint study.
"Item, I leave all my property absolutely to Antonia Quixana my niece, here present, after all has been deducted from the most available portion of it that may be required to satisfy the
bequests I have made.
It is time that you should return to your countrymen, to deliver up some of those stores of experimental knowledge that you have doubtless obtained by so long a sojourn in the wilds, which, however they may be corrupted by preconceived opinions, will prove acceptable
bequests to those whom, as you say, you must shortly leave for ever."
Dad thoroughly enjoyed it all, so thank you to all at
Bequest for the lovely afternoon, and for all the other events that you put on throughout the year.
"The
bequest was discussed with Simon in the mid-1990s ...
