Sentence examples for A considerable estate from inspiring English sources

On the death of her father in 1887, she inherited a considerable estate.

I don't know how he supported himself". Wright said Lott "had a considerable estate he had inherited somewhere.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, having shortly before been left a widow with a considerable estate, Wittenmyer devoted herself to relief work.

At the time of his marriage Hooker had no known financial means, and yet at his death he left a considerable estate.

Reflecting, too, that he had a considerable estate, and was descended of a noble family, and had friends of great influence, he was fearful all this might bring him to be banished as a dangerous person, and for this reason meddled not at all with state affairs, but in military service showed himself of a brave and intrepid nature.

"As an organisation, we have quite a considerable estate and cover a wide geographical area.

Mr. Spitzer would probably not have trouble paying such a fine; he comes from a family with a considerable real estate fortune.

More than any other person, Ragnar Sohlman is credited with saving the Nobel Prize after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and the blasting cap, shocked Sweden by leaving much of his considerable estate to endow prizes for excellence in science and literature and the cause of peace.

He had no children, and his considerable estate will be divided among his immediate family.

Bobbi Kristina inherited her superstar mom's entire, considerable estate after Whitney Houston died in February 2012.

I had a conversation with a man not long ago who has the unenviable task of sorting through his mother's considerable estate, deciding what to keep, what to sell and what to throw away.