first estate
Example Sentences
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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
Had man retained his first estate, his joy of this kind would have been full.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
Behold what followeth upon the majesty and splendour which ceremonies carry with them, and how religion, at its best and first estate, was without the same!
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
