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
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 Elihu Burritt
He is man in his first estate, just emerging from the animal.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
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 E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
