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  • Jasper Innes made a hopeless list of his other saleable assets, none of which were unentailed antiques or portraits.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • But if it were unentailed, to whom could his cousin have left it?

    The Claverings 2005

  • He was an English earl, and as such known in some unfamiliar fashion to those who know all earls; but he was a man never seen in Parliament, who had spent the greater part of his manhood abroad, who had sold estates in other counties, converting unentailed acres into increased wealth, but wealth of a kind much less acceptable to the general English aristocrat than that which comes direct from the land.

    Lady Anna 2004

  • First, because any genuine form of historicism is already presentist in its very challenge to an unentailed, objectivist historiography.

    Presentism and the Archives 2002

  • Perth, and Kincardineshire, comprising the greater part of those counties, and the coal-mines in Lanark, as well as the enormous estate within the city of Glasgow, were unentailed, and went to the

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • The property is unentailed, you see, and he and Percy had been estranged for a number of years before his death.

    Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003

  • It was one of his smaller, unentailed holdings, he said.

    No Man's Mistress Balogh, Mary 2001

  • Jasper Innes made a hopeless list of his other saleable assets, none of which were unentailed antiques or portraits.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • He had wished to raise a sum of money on the Vavasor estate, which, as it was unentailed, he could only do with his grandfather's concurrence.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • "If your son hadn't been born, the money would all have been left to you, unentailed, and you could have sold it to an offworlder and gone."

    Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

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