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The money she secured by unlawful means was, from her point of view, mere surplus wealth belonging to her father—wealth 328 in which she had a reversionary interest.

From The Scarlet Feather by Grefé, Will

Those powers possessed extensive and valuable holdings in the West Indies and they were rivals for the reversionary title to these remaining Spanish Islands, Cuba and Porto Rico.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

His incomes for life, his reversionary hopes, are knocked down to the speculator.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

Eminent characters do not emanate from degenerate parents; and neither is the reverse true, except as the result of adequate reversionary influences.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

Diagram to illustrate the appearance of the reversionary blue pigeon in F2 from the cross of black with white.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall