Word: bequeath
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...make matters worse, more than half of the church's "livings" are filled by "patrons"-a custom inherited from pre-Norman times, when the privilege (known as "advowson") came to be attached to the estate of the lord of the manor, who can bequeath the privilege or sell it. Thus a priest in search of a parish is never sure to what kind of patron he must sell himself. In Acle, Norfolk, for example, it is Brigadier Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe; in Parracombe, Devon it is the Misses Nind; Colonel Pine-Coffin picks the parson for St. Andrews Alwington, Devon...
LeBlanc is no hero. He fears death, and when he senses its imminence it requires all his strength to keep from cracking up. Since he has nothing to bequeath, he is determined to leave at least a memory of uncomplaining courage. As his hour approaches, irrational hopes and fears seize him. He has a nightmare vision of yawning hell, and mistakes a grandchild for a daughter who had died at three. As his body shrinks, so does the area that absorbs his attention. The world of town and factory, of family and responsibility, gives way to what goes...
...Dominique he left an estate of 6 billion francs (then $375 million), which was promptly contested by his relatives. Under French law a widow ordinarily has the use of her husband's fortune while she is alive but cannot bequeath it to anyone save a direct heir. The Guillaumes had been childless in nine years of marriage; yet now the rumor spread that, surprisingly, the beautiful Madame Guillaume was pregnant. Ten months later a baby boy appeared in her household. In 1941 she formally adopted the child, named him Jean-Pierre Guillaume, though he was often called Paulo...
...sheerest excess, its personal accent the most rioting rhetoric. For all Wolfe's great gifts, his novel was too often diminished by a craving for size, impoverished by an orgy of word-spending, made shallow by a show of philosophy. What the book had pre-eminently to bequeath to the theater was some magnificent characters, and Playwright Frings has settled for that one bequest. She has taken the people and let the purple...
...occurs to me that the best way to promote the giving of bodies by bequest would be for each physician to bequeath his own body to the school from which he graduated. In this way, he would be repaying a debt which he alone can fully pay. Furthermore, if the medical profession would lead the way, the general public would eventually follow...