At the age of twenty he received a legacy of a few pounds; and soon after, having saved a little money, married a good and true woman, who helped him much throughout life.

"With the exception of a few legacies to his servants, his whole fortune is left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

That knowledge is, I suppose, a legacy from our mothers.

In taking the bag, and thanking him most warmly, I added, 'This will make a nice legacy for my little Tom, who shall astonish the latter days of the nineteenth century with it.'

And even if he has not perpetuated a faultless character, he has yet bequeathed a noble example; and, more, has transmitted a legacy in the richness of which we forget the faults of the testator,a legacy of imperishable thought, clothed in the language of imperishable art,a legacy so valuable that it is the treasured inheritance of all civilized nations, and one which no nation can afford to lose.

This, of course, entailed a loss; but Bessie had been left a legacy by her godmother, which gave her an income of her own, and a large portion of this she continued to devote throughout her life to helping the blind.

Octavius therefore sold what remained of his uncle's property, raised money on his own credit, and paid all legacies with great exactness.

But if you are married you had better have your legacy at once.

Our Lord and Master, When he departed, left us in his will, As our best legacy on earth, the poor!

It must have been divinely ordered that she should leave such a precious legacy behind her.

It was strictly a shock; it upset his health for several days, and not for a week or two could he realise the legacy as a fact.

If we don't smash it, the islanders will cheerfully take the legacy off our hands.

In Washington the tax to relatives in the direct line is but 1 per cent, but to others it may go as high as 12 per cent on legacies over $100,000.

But surely no legatee ever found himself in possession of a queerer legacy than that which my poor friend Challoner had bequeathed to me when he made over to me the mortal remains of some two dozen deceased criminals.

She was struck by the fact that those ruthless victors of Wall Street had not sold the hundreds of worthless acres, which they never took the trouble to visit; and by the still more significant fact that as the older ones of the family died, the Austins, the Pages, the Woolsons, the Hawkers, and as legacy after legacy of more worthless mountain acres came by inheritance to the financiers, those tracts too were never sold.

(3) In exempting legacies below a certain amount. (4) In having rates progressing with the size of the legacy; (this feature is less general, but is prominent in most of the later laws).

" "I thought you said Mr. Morten had a legacy about the time of his second marriage.