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
There is a law to control the spiritual, and a law for the material, and it is by observance of these two laws, that man's first estate is to be regained.
From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill
Our career in the spirit world is often spoken of as man's first estate.
From A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Widtsoe, John A.
While treach'rous Fortune with slight honours fed My first estate, she almost drown'd my head, And now since—clouded thus—she hides those rays, Life adds unwelcom'd length unto my days.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
