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"Demise" Quotes from Famous Books

... moreover, the steadfast resolution of purpose which characterised their father was known by them all,—and by their husbands: they had received their fortunes, with some settled contingencies to be forthcoming on their father's demise; why, then, trouble the old gentleman at ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... Just a month after the demise of the late bishop, Dr Proudie kissed the Queen's hand as his ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... passed. The client should be protected by a fresh solicitor." On which the young author of the treatise on Demises would have something to say in his best fashion; for the cognovit might be taken to be a sort of demise. "I doubt Mr. Prosee, if your suggestion would work. As ...

— Bardell v. Pickwick • Percy Fitzgerald

... demise of three Grand Councilors whose deaths were recorded by the press as occurring from "natural causes," the other major and minor mobs were ...

— Mars Confidential • Jack Lait

... lands of the estate of the late C.L. Smith, about ten miles southwest of Winnsboro, S.C. The house is a two-room frame structure, with a chimney in the center. He has the house and garden lot, free of rent, for the rest of his life, by the expressed wish of Mr. Smith before his demise. The only other occupant is his wife, Nancy, who is his third wife and much younger than Lewis. She does all the work about the home. They exist from the produce of the garden, output of fowls, and the small pension Lewis receives. ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

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