estate
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"I wouldn't want to bring my three children up next to this industrial estate," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
She was buried on an island in the Spencers' Althorp estate, rather than a graveyard - and the book describes how a bishop was brought to consecrate the ground to make it possible.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The aim is to pass wealth to the next generation, while using little or none of the $15 million lifetime gift and estate tax exemption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Of course it could be frustrating,” said her daughter Brigitte, an elegant, soft-spoken scholar of Semitic languages who has managed Caland’s estate since her death in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Penelope did not turn back even once to look at the ramshackle estate, but kept her eyes fixed on the road ahead.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Led by trained volunteers and held over coast paths and garden estates to town parks, the walks range from 10 to 90 minutes and are aimed at all abilities.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The tiny village is nestled along the southern shore of Lake Erie and offers a mix of multimillion-dollar estates and more modest residences.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
He believes there is no silver bullet which will prevent a wildfire starting or spreading but that estates "need to build up layers of defence".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
But now there were more and more “free” workers—those who had moved off the estates and lived in their own houses, splitting their time between sugar work and their own businesses.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
"I don't exactly see to what extent we should have been liable—whether only the estated property, or also all funded moneys."
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
"Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!" said Mrs. Guffern.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
When Barrington was a great estated gentleman with a vast fortune at his command, it cost him wonderfully little thought to contract a loan, or even to sell a farm.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
Darby: You letting on to be an estated magistrate and my own cousin and such a great generation of a man.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.
From Three Plays by Padraic Colum
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