" "In the middle counties, where he owns vast estates, and has been liberal to debtors and tenants, he carries great favor; both parties respect him for his ignorance and pomposity, which they mistake for simplicity and power, as usual.

He was connected with a family of great respectability at Royston, in Cambridgeshire, and inherited from them a moderate-sized landed estate.

And the overseeing of his little estate occupied his time very pleasantly indeed.

After his deprivation, he lived, till his death, which happened in 1665, at a small village near Chichester, upon a paternal estate, not augmented by the large preferments wasted upon him in the triumphs of his party; having been remarkable, throughout his life, for hospitality and contempt of money.

Persons not able to contract are minors, lunatics, idiots and drunk people, and married women (except in some states in relation to their separate estates).

I understood afterwards, that before the fair was over, the gamester avenged himself for this injury in the other's blood: that he then returned to the fair, secretly entered another gambling booth, where he betted so rashly, that he soon lost not only his patrimonial estate, which was large, but his acquired wealth, which was much larger.

This was Miss Catherine Gordon of Gight, a lady with considerable estates in Aberdeenshirewhich attracted the adventurerand an overweening Highland pride in her descent from James I., the greatest of the Stuarts, through his daughter Annabella, and the second Earl of Huntly.

It was further resolved that whatever moneys of silver or gold the public treasury had taken from his ancestral estate should be restored.

He was the proprietor of extensive estates in the neighbourhood; and while his lady was pregnant with her first child, as she was one evening walking in their domains, she encountered a strange looking gipsey, who, pestering her for alms, received but a small sum.

This part of the splendid estate is apparently a highly-cultivated meadow, the grass waving in the gentle breeze, like the undulating bosom of Old Atlantic.

So does the favorite's mean estate Render that great man mean, While I by him, to distance sent, Am pierced with sorrow keen.

An only son, with an immense estate, he has devoted himself to the profession of a soldier, and gained great reputation by it in the world; nor has he neglected any of his private duties as a man" "Or a Christian, I hope," said Mrs. Wilson, delighted with the praises of the earl.

His father (Joseph) was the younger son of Mr. Edward Cave, of Cave's-in-the-Hole, a lone house, on the Street road, in the same county, which took its name from the occupier; but having concurred with his elder brother in cutting off the entail of a small hereditary estate, by which act it was lost from the family, he was reduced to follow, in Rugby, the trade of a shoemaker.

The other members of the family returned to their respective estates, and Undine once more found herself alone with her husband.

" "It's a magnificent estate," said Beth, looking at her cousin doubtfully.

absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general.

Sir William was a man of handsome estate and unexceptionable character, but entirely governed by the whims and desires of his only child.

Sir Edgar had died suddenly, and the entailed estates had fallen to his successor the colonel, now Sir Harry; but the bulk of his wealth, being in convertible property, he had given by will to his other nephew, a young clergyman, and a son of a younger brother.

I'd have a clear, and competent estate, That I might live genteely, but not great: As much as I could moderately spend, A little more, sometimes t' oblige a friend.

How much had to be told to the grandfather of the happenings of the last and all former days, and Erick had to throw in a question now and then, which referred to the distant estate, for his thoughts always travelled back to that spot.

You know that there is a very valuable estate and a rather difficult will.

We know, from his own assertion, that Roundjacket was not;he had an excellent little house, a beautiful garden, every comfort which an ample "estate" could bring him, but he had no wife.

His principal estate was in Ireland, and most of that time which his duty at Windsor did not require he gave to the improvement of his Irish property.

But though it may be true that the chief families of each canton sought then, as at all times, to shake off the yoke, the epoch of their independence can only be fixed at the later period at which they obtained or enforced the privilege of not being deprived of their titles and their feudal estates.

They were mostly rural negroes from the estates adjacent to Kingston.