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bequest

[bih-kwest] / bɪˈkwɛst /


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Photograph: Tate/Trustees Of The Chantrey Bequest How many ways are there to tell the story of British art?

From The Guardian • May 3, 2013

Besides, the words Legacy, Bequest, go side by side with the words, Death, Funeral.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

A Bequest of His Heart HENCE, heart, with her that must depart,   And hald thee with thy soverane!

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Time Implied, or made it manifest,    Bequest of a forgotten clime.

From A Father of Women and other poems by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

Her picture called the "Morning Bath," exhibited at the Academy in 1896, was purchased under the Chantry Bequest and is in the Tate Gallery.

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement




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