entailed

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In the early 1880s, novelist George Alfred Townsend wrote, in The Entailed Hat, “My wife will be a shakester in diamonds!”

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2013

Entailed estates fix the family in one spot, and tend, by inter-marriage, to deepen any original physical excellence.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard

His wife set the Entailed Hat upon his temples.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

Entailed Puritanism being an actual impossibility, all attempts to realize it, all assumptions of success in it, have the worst features of sham and hypocrisy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

Oh, Lassalle has had many cases offered him, but he refused them all so as to devote himself to the People versus Entailed Nobility.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert