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

As their cousins the morning glories are to this day, the dodders in their first estate were true climbers.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by Iles, George

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

Paradise will come again; this world will, for a thousand years, see its first estate; it will be again the Garden of Eden.

From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore