Sentence examples for unexpected bequest from inspiring English sources

40 years on, a lawyer's letter with an unexpected bequest throws up some surprises for the protaogniost.

In this Booker Prize-winning novel, an unexpected bequest forces a man to re-evaluate his relationships, present and past.

An Unexpected Bequest Phyllis Wattis, the philanthropist who died in June, was a generous donor to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Tony Webster, a cautious, divorced man in his 60s who "had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded," receives an unexpected bequest from a woman he'd met only once, 40 years earlier.

After receiving an unexpected bequest of about $200 million a decade ago from the estates of a former professor and his wife, the school, ranked in the third tier by U.S. News & World Report, raced to expand, and added a new dormitory.

Part of that cost, however, was offset by an unexpected $2 million bequest by a former resident, Doris Volland Whitlock, for whom the reading room will be named, said Jeffrey Ault, director of the Dobbs Ferry Public Library.

The first is a job at a research institute in what was East Berlin, and the second is the unexpected news that he has inherited an apartment building there, a bequest from a grandfather he never met.

Bequest secretary, Dundee University.

(The Tate Gallery now holds that bequest).

Mr. Bailey's bequest was off the scale.

His mother had made a small bequest.