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

He might possibly have merely, when renouncing his toil over the up-grade of life, slipped back to his first estate, and thus have experienced in one sense no change at all.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

This work would have been incumbent on man had he retained his first estate.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

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