post-obit

Example Sentences

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I propose that you execute in my favor a post-obit on your uncle's life, giving me—well, we may have to wait a long time.

From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Here, wealthy misers to inter,   We've shrouds of neat post-obit paper; While, for their heirs, we've _quick_silver,   That, fast as they can wish, will caper.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

It had never occurred to him that, by redeeming the post-obit bonds, Mountjoy would become capable of owning and enjoying any property that might be left to him.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony

Here misers may their bones inter In shrouds of neat post-obit paper; While, for their beirs, we've quicksilver, That, fast as heart can wish, will caper.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 by Various

I won't leave the place till I've set things right—not if I've got to give him a post-obit for five thousand—I won't!—Nobody there?

From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George