Legacies

Examples

• Accident and disease, however, are the inseparable concomitants of human existence, and suffering and pain the ineffaceable legacies of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I should be all the better pleased if he'd left lots of small legacies. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Testamentary donations, or legacies to collaterals, are subject to the like duties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bowls and Firkin likewise received their legacies and their dismissals, and married and set up a lodging-house, according to the custom of their kind. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Did she think that only the payment of the legacies had been delayed? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But Miss Farish could not pause over the legacies; she broke into a larger indignation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• If I inherit, I shall have to be careful of my figure, she mused, while the lawyer droned on through a labyrinth of legacies. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I asked Joe whether he had heard if any of the other relations had any legacies? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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