first estate
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When I attended my first estate sale in November at a Beverly Hills home, a stunning vintage Teac A-7010 tape recorder caught my attention.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2023
Anson MacAuslan was among the first estate managers to secure funding from Peatland Action — a project funded by the Scottish government to restore peatlands.
From Nature • Feb. 11, 2020
If thy owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose.
From Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Weir, Harrison
As their cousins the morning glories are to this day, the dodders in their first estate were true climbers.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George
It is the theater alone, as in its first estate a probable work of the first Hierôn, which at all connects itself with our present time.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)