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

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 Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

The Paduans revenged themselves by confiscating Onaro, the first estate possessed by the Romano family in Italy.—Salinguerra.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Have you ever thought of the glory of Eden, the first estate of man?

From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Taylor, Robert L.