What a forebear leaves

Usage examples of legacy.

Miss Rose who had left Mrs Ascher the small legacy which had enabled her to start in business.

Cyder glared at Mary, one hand rising unconsciously to the thin scars on her face, legacy of their last meeting, when Mary had nearly killed Cyder with a single deadly song.

Young people in France were particularly repressed, a time bomb of resentment under the legacy of Gaullist patriarchy, which, according to Jane, a single spark would be enough to detonate.

Eric Stokes has convincingly shown, utilitarianism combined with the legacies of liberalism and evangelicalism as philosophies of British rule in the East stressed the rational importance of a strong executive armed with various legal and penal codes, a system of doctrines on such matters as frontiers and land rents, and everywhere an irreducible supervisory imperial authority.

There is also in this codicil a legacy of five thousand pounds and his collection of ivories to the South Kensington Museum.

The largest of these animals included an armor-plated giant ten feet long and three wide, whose only remaining legacy is a set of fossilized footprints in the Karoo, South Africa.

And this legacy had been left untouched for the heavy hand of Linge Chen and Klayus to swing like a bludgeon.

Deng Maomao, and others close to him had encouraged the 1992 tour of the Special Economic Zones out of concern for his legacy.

Colonel Le Noir was to remain trustee of the property, with directions from the court immediately to pay the legacies left by the late Doctor Day to Marah Rocke and Traverse Rocke, and also to pay to Clara Day, in quarterly instalments, from the revenue of her property, an annual sum of money sufficient for her support.

To Milly Moyle, of 12, Claremont Grove, twelve thousand pounds, free of legacy duty.

Along with the skills that would make them useful Earth citizens, the apprentices had also been taught Anglaic, the official tongue of the Nomarchies, the remaining legacy of an old and once-dominant culture, and the language the children would need if they were ever sent outside their own land.

He told of her coming to Oghen, of the life she had lived there, of the incremental yet necessary changes she had helped bring to Neyel society, and of the legacy she had left behind.

They are left with the legacy of bodies distorted by deformed healing and abnormal bone growth, and some of them eventually go deaf from otosclerosis, but otherwise the worst ravages of this genetic disorder are behind them.

La Forge frowned at the Fandrean version of a padd, on which was displayed the most recent series of yet-unexplained Legacy shield surges.

I would argue that, for neurobiologists concerned with learning and memory, the legacy of this period of experimental psychology, always excluding Hebb, is not its theoretical constructs, its painstakingly accumulated phenomenology, the minutiae of schedules of reinforcement or of conditioning chains.