Verb (used with object) : She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece. From Dictionary.com.
From these lower steps of the ladder the young man would certainly rise to the higher ranks of the administration, possessed of a fortune and a name bequeathed to him in. From Wordnik.com. [Bureaucracy] Reference
‘You don’t want that horrible expression bequeathed to posterity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
I mean, the child ` s no longer living and she did, you know, kind of bequeathed that responsibility to the parents. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2009] Reference
The previous tenant left her machines and kind of "bequeathed" them to the guy downstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Random Meanderings] Reference
Duke had bequeathed this affinity for wood to him. From Wordnik.com. [s do something with this] Reference
He bequeathed an honest fortune to his widow and his son. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It can't be easy watching your job bequeathed in the media on a dail. From Wordnik.com. [Step Right Up] Reference
Seems this is yet another gift Tony Blair bequeathed his successor. —. From Wordnik.com. [Media Matters: Why Britain’s P.M. Is Popular Abroad But Hated At Home] Reference
And there's big money on the way, bequeathed by the World War II generation. From Wordnik.com. [What Works] Reference
All this and more was the legacy that the Puritans bequeathed to American culture. From Wordnik.com. [Do We Need Satan?] Reference
If Torricelli had his way, he would never have bequeathed Frank Lautenberg to the voters. From Wordnik.com. [Tony And 'The Torch'] Reference
So you can see why Ma and I were surprised that Pa bequeathed his body to medical research. From Wordnik.com. [Ordinary People] Reference
Cæsar had bequeathed his magnificent gardens on the opposite side of the Tiber to the public as. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Never mind those silly stories about the little old lady who bequeathed millions to Fluffy the cat. From Wordnik.com. [Remember Me] Reference
He frowned, obviously considering this fundamental truth I had bequeathed, as he chewed on his find. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of Harvey (Chapter One)] Reference
The residence that Omar unwillingly bequeathed to Harzai is hardly as austere as the Mullah's ideology. From Wordnik.com. [The Scene In Kandahar] Reference
His money and other properties he bequeathed to the little fair-haired prattler now playing at my knee. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Humans knew that the language applications bequeathed Borgs, worked on permutation and frequency analysis. From Wordnik.com. [If IT Were YOU] Reference
She takes the cattle bequeathed to her and sells them off, then uses the money to start her detective agency. From Wordnik.com. [Put On a Happy Face] Reference
The re-form process, he writes, "took place without moral values, and it bequeathed to Russia a moral vacuum.". From Wordnik.com. [Going Nowhere Fast] Reference
Only a miracle can save this beautiful country from the inevitable lot that the United States has bequeathed us. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Seoul’s Leader] Reference
Mr. EGAN: Consider this: Roosevelt basically bequeathed us with an area about the size France that every American owns. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy Roosevelt And The 'Burn' That Saved Forests] Reference
He compensated for his short stature (a trait he bequeathed to his eldest son) by referring to himself as the "Short Me.". From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Dean's Pain] Reference
GladWare won't withstand as many trips from freezer to microwave, and it's not meant to be bequeathed to your grandchildren. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Of Innovation] Reference
Michael wonders if this is a learned behavior or if her mother has bequeathed her with the dissembling and manipulation gene. From Wordnik.com. [Lover of Beautiful but Unstable Women] Reference
While leaving Virginia unmentioned, the will bequeathed Franklin's entire estate to his second wife, Louetta Chassereau Bennett. From Wordnik.com. ['Sellout'] Reference
Samuel Pepys, an important but second-rank player, bequeathed the best surviving account of life and government in 1660s London. From Wordnik.com. [Merkel Is in Europe's Driving Seat] Reference
Because the JTWROS ownership is extinguished upon a person's death, it cannot be left to someone in a will or otherwise bequeathed. From Wordnik.com. [Before going to settlement, learn the basics of all that legal mumbo jumbo] Reference
Eugenie Gontier was, it was said, the natural daughter of a great foreign lord, who had bequeathed to her a certain amount of money. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Named after first benefactor John Harvard, a minister and Cambridge alumnus who bequeathed his library and half his estate to Harvard. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge ousts Harvard as world's best university] Reference
Along with railways and a swollen bureaucracy, it may be that British rule bequeathed something else too: a taste for hereditary power. From Wordnik.com. [Survival of dynasties in south Asia attests to the legacy of British rule] Reference
We can however take solace in the impressive roster of classic films which both of these beautiful and talented ladies bequeathed to us. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud] Reference
Ancient Greece bequeathed Euclidean geometry, Ptolemy's map of the solar system and Aristotle's classification of living organisms, which served biologists until Darwin. From Wordnik.com. ['How The Heavens Go'] Reference
Her visits were virtually the only contact Nelson Mandela had with the outside world, and this access to the oracle of resistance bequeathed upon Winnie a Delphian magic. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From South Africa] Reference
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