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

This misliked King Helgi most, that the gods were all burned up, and great was the cost or ever Baldur's Meadow was built anew fully equal to its first estate.

From The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875 by Morris, William

But the dahlia itself—what was that in its first estate, in the country in which it was first found in its aboriginal structure and complexion? 

From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu

Everywhere, man had at the beginning been innocent and happy, and had lapsed, by temptation and his own weakness, from his first estate.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert