Sentence examples for small bequest from inspiring English sources

His mother had made a small bequest.

After Oxford, Reid received a small bequest from a godfather and decided "almost on the spot" not to get a job but to "have a go at this poetry business".

While most people get small bequests, a few get much larger ones, distorting the average.

The Carvel will is a monster, including small bequests to 83 different beneficiaries, most of them loyal employees.

After debts were handled, Cope left small bequests to friends and family Anna Brown and Julia received $5000 each, while the remainder went to Annie.

In his will, Hues made many small bequests to his friends, including a sum of £20 to his "kinswoman" Mary Holly (of whom nothing is known), and 20 nobles to each of her three sisters.

Read also made a number of smaller bequests.

The only consequence would be that, years from now, they would leave smaller bequests.

The bulk will go to the Save the Children fund in India, with smaller bequests to a science and religion group that is studying the effects of Buddhist practice and to a project to train Buddhist monks as scientists.

The Metropolitan Museum and the library stand to receive millions, and there are the smaller bequests to friends, like Mr. Rockefeller (a stone Buddha) and Mrs. de la Renta (several dog paintings).

Moreover, the model displays the realistic feature that unskilled individuals get uniformly smaller bequests than skilled individuals.