Which preposition to use with estates
Your correspondent who writes about "The Real Estate of Woman," will be relieved to find that the threatened dearth in husbands can be so readily obviated.
I will retire hastily to my private estate in the cave.
"Well, my prophecy is that they'll swear the poor dear old man's estate at under five thousand.
What good is such an estate to an aging bachelor like me, who can never visit it?
He had sold his commission, bought an estate on the Hudson, and married a daughter of the Livingstons.
I think that ever since the day she had entered the Stewart family, my aunt had thought me a spectre across her path, for she was an ambitious woman and wished the whole estate for her son,in which I do not greatly blame her.
Do not forget that your father forfeited his claim to the estate by his ungentlemanly conduct.
Of course the business made me rich, and I bought real estate with my extra money, and doubled my fortune again and again.
It would undoubtedly be on the estates of the lay vassals that a more definite usage would first be adopted, and knights bound by feudal obligations to their lords receive a definite estate from them.
He had no desire to oust him unfairly; he was proud of being always fair; yet he did long to engross the whole estate under one title.
He freed all the serfs on the Imperial estates without reserve.
He re-entered active political life in 1674, but retired again in 1680, and moved to an estate near Farnham; which he named Moor Park, laid out in the Dutch style, and made famous for its wall fruit.
Then he indicated remedies; first, reductions in taxation, fiscal means in which he had little faith; then freedom to will one's estate as one pleased, which seemed to him more efficacious; a change, too, in the marriage laws, without forgetting the granting of affiliation rights.
That the leaders of a popular movement should suggest an appeal to the Estates of Lower Austria was therefore an unexpected sign of a desire to find any legal centre for action, however weak in power, and however aristocratic that centre might be.
He only longed for the time when he could take Etta freely into his confidence and engage her interest in the object of his ambitionnamely, to make the huge Osterno estate into that lump of leaven which might in time leaven the whole of the empire.
Now where could be found a more worthy recipient of such estates than Hunyady, to whom the public treasury was besides a debtor on account of the sums he disbursed for the constant warfare he maintained against the Turks?
Why should I tell of how my trade prospered mightily, and of the great house we built at Middle Plantation; of my quarrels with Nicholson, which were many; of how we carved a fair estate out of Elspeth's inheritance, and led the tide of settlement to the edge of the hills?
The elder a bold, frank, impetuous, chivalric adventurer; the younger a gentle, studious, book-loving recluse; they lived upon the ancestral estate like mated birds, one always on the wing, the other always in the nest.
Listen: I bequeath to Jane Merrick, my affianced bride, the possession and use of my estate during the term of her life.
He had fallen from his high estate through loving a daughter of earth, nor was he permitted to enter again until she whom he loved had planted the flowers of the forget-me-not in every corner of the world.
But my nephew is his only son, and therefore cannot be deprived of the principal part of his estate after his death.
His whole estate within the waters lay; With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey.
He frankly acknowledged that his estates were never under better cultivation than at the present time: and he could say the same of the estates throughout the island.
Godfrey Heron's death had happened so suddenly that the news of it scarcely got beyond the radius of the estate before the following morning, and Stafford had gone to London in ignorance of this second blow with which Fate had followed up the one he had dealt Ida: and when the neighboursthe Vaynes, the Bannerdales, and the Avoryscame quickly and readily enough to offer their sympathy and help, they could do nothing.
By the discovery of this document, Magdalen became entitled to half her late husband's fortune; for, the secret trust having failed, the law had distributed the estate between the deceased's next of kinhalf to Magdalen and half to George Bartram.