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

Indeed it is consolatory to reflect that he has never done anything else but make mistakes, from the moment that he left his first estate down to the present moment.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)

When God determined to save man, did that volition necessarily imply a positive determination not to save the angels who kept not their first estate?

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

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