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  • They were one more part of the legacy Timothy had left me.   (source)
    legacy = something someone created and left from the past
  • Just because my father had left me a legacy of the expectation that men would let me down didn't mean I had to accept it.   (source)
    legacy = something passed from one generation to the next
  • Jason, today, I am passing the legacy of the Golden List on to you.   (source)
  • Even a legacy of a lie is better than hate.   (source)
    legacy = something coming from the past
  • Dr. B. and I have to finish my book to help other kids! That will be my legacy. I will never have children to live after me . . . to make a difference in the world....   (source)
    legacy = something left behind for others
  • What will the legacy of this vanishing century be?   (source)
    legacy = notable thing left to the future
  • Papaw Shack was six feet four inches, and a strong legacy of basketball players continues to this day in our family because of him.   (source)
    legacy = something coming from the past
  • What would the probate judge have to say about spreading some kind of a legacy among them all, all those nameless, maybe as a first installment?   (source)
    legacy = gift left after death
  • Because it's not just Negroes, but really it's all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.   (source)
    legacy = something coming from the past
  • Well, I did beat about the bush a little and said that if I got a legacy—that's the way I put it—I'd make him take me.   (source)
    legacy = cash from a will
  • Well, Jabez told his family it was a lawyer, come to see him about a legacy.   (source)
    legacy = gift left in a will
  • ...informed me that his wife had been left a small legacy by a bachelor relative who had recently died, and that it would be necessary for her to go to Boston to attend to the settling of the estate.   (source)
  • In her ignorance of legal procrastinations she had supposed that her legacy would be paid over within a few days of the reading of her aunt's will; and after an interval of anxious suspense, she wrote to enquire the cause of the delay.   (source)
    legacy = a gift left in a will
  • Boys and girls must know the legacy of their fathers.†   (source)
  • And this commitment to charity reminds the cancer person of the essential goodness of humanity and makes him/her feel loved and encouraged because s/he will leave a cancer-curing legacy.†   (source)
  • The other heirs were too stunned by the unexpected legacy to bother him with questions.†   (source)
  • As well, she was the wife of the late Richard E. Griffen, the prominent industrialist and political figure, and the sister-in-law of Winifred Griffen Prior, the Toronto philanthropist who died last year leaving a generous legacy to our high school.†   (source)
  • They had free, democratic societies, and they left behind rich cultural legacies.†   (source)
  • Most of it's legacy equipment, built before the internet existed, and it's nearly irreplaceable.†   (source)
  • In the second, she was a nineteenth-century heiress who turns her back on her legacy to wed a blacksmith's apprentice.†   (source)
  • And this business, it's my legacy from my father.†   (source)
  • The legacy of slavery very much shaped my grandmother and the way she raised her nine children.†   (source)
  • —John Gregory, A Father's Legacy to his Daughters, 1774.†   (source)
  • He reminded them that previous tempering of Church law—the Vatican II fiasco—had left a devastating legacy: Church attendance was now lower than ever, donations were drying up, and there were not even enough Catholic priests to preside over their churches.†   (source)
  • Some stretched across the entire continent, one small part of the Rusty legacy still scarring the land.†   (source)
  • Can an Indian have a legacy in a white town?†   (source)
  • It could have been a lasting legacy of scientific research.†   (source)
  • We are certain you will honor his legacy.†   (source)
  • Invariably they were polite in their queries—the legacy of TruYou—and gracious in their ratings.†   (source)
  • Caroline and I did share a legacy, our $34,000 tax bill on the sale of the properties.†   (source)
  • The slightly problematic part of the legacy —†   (source)
  • And sometimes the girl holding one end of the rope is from the West side of Hector, and the girl on the other end is from the East side; and if you're looking for Maniac Magee's legacy, or monument, that's as good as any — even if it wasn't really a bull.†   (source)
  • The name it bore was older still, a legacy from the age of heroes, when the Starks were Kings in the North.†   (source)
  • This is my legacy, my father's legacy, and I have a duty to it.†   (source)
  • Our house might not have been as famous as the one where Dobbs Spaight was buried, but it still afforded my father some bragging rights in the halls of Congress, and whenever he walked around the garden, I could see him dreaming about the legacy he wanted to leave.†   (source)
  • They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.†   (source)
  • If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book.†   (source)
  • A legacy of tradition and heroism that stretched back to antiquity had fallen upon him.†   (source)
  • Here's to my legacy," Redd said, lifting her scepter.†   (source)
  • Chicharron and Shoshi weren't together anymore, but he held the legacy of their brief relationship in his arms.†   (source)
  • This legacy of brokenness goes all the way back to Adam, what about him?†   (source)
  • As a priest, I have spent enough time on backward worlds to see the effects of an ancient genetic disorder variously called Down's syndrome, mongolism, or generation-ship legacy.†   (source)
  • Didn't she, Dede, understand that feeling of being caught in a legacy.†   (source)
  • In the front covers of the textbooks from which he is taught to read he leaves his legacy, writing his name in number-two pencil below a series of others.†   (source)
  • From our family legacy.†   (source)
  • For years, we had to overcome that legacy.†   (source)
  • She moved our things out of storage into a plywood cabin on the piney outskirts of town, which she rented on the strength of a tiny legacy from Grandfather Wharton.†   (source)
  • His religious melancholia was a legacy from this father.†   (source)
  • It was called A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused.†   (source)
  • A winter night in New Orleans when I wandered through the St. Louis cemetery and saw my sister, old and bent, a bouquet of white roses in her arms, the thorns carefully bound in an old parchment, her gray head bowed, her steps carrying her steadily along through the perilous dark to the grave where the stone of her brother Louis was set, side by side with that of his younger brother....Louis, who had died in the fire of Pointe du Lac leaving a generous legacy to a godchild and namesake she never knew.†   (source)
  • FINAL JUNE 5 0303N AP From The Lewiston Daily Sun, Sunday, September 7 (p.3): The Legacy of TK: Scorched Earth and Scorched Hearts CHAMBERLAIN-Prom Night is history now.†   (source)
  • Taylor's legacy had led to a queasy tilting of the finances on the NFL's line of scrimmage.†   (source)
  • It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.†   (source)
  • Egypt left a legacy of art and architecture; Sumer's legacy is its megabytes.†   (source)
  • In the worst of conditions, the legacy of my teammates steadies my resolve and silently guides my every deed.†   (source)
  • Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.†   (source)
  • Even in death, he selflessly and publicly risked tainting his own legacy so that others might be inspired to seek faith and overcome their own struggles.†   (source)
  • Likewise, one of George W. Bush's few positive international legacies was a big push against trafficking.†   (source)
  • The Silver Legacy, Eldorado, and Circus Circus casinos are all connected by skyways.†   (source)
  • He taught me new phrases like "second generation" and sprouted words like "legacy."†   (source)
  • An espresso machine on a zinc bar established the class of an establishment—this was a legacy of the Italian occupation.†   (source)
  • Both of them had bright blue eyes, their legacy from Bob, but their hair was like hers and they were built like her, even to the knobby knees.†   (source)
  • His legacy to them was in blood, in heart, in vision.†   (source)
  • My legacy†   (source)
  • My body throbbed with the legacy of the border crossing, but the pain could not forestall sleep.†   (source)
  • Svensson had left a legacy in the form of a manuscript with an explosive story.†   (source)
  • She speaks of building a John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, so that people from around the world will know of her husband's legacy.†   (source)
  • The last legacy of the great ark.†   (source)
  • A legacy from my dear old father who'd earned himself a knife through the gullet in a Dublin alley.†   (source)
  • The remarkable thing, given the decades of thievery and ruination of the Pimas, is the legacy of dignity and forbearance that prevails amid their exploited culture.†   (source)
  • And he reminded the AHF's members, many of whom were America's elite mountaineers, of Sir Edmund Hillary's legacy in Nepal.†   (source)
  • The legacy today is a two-thousand-mile border between two nations with the largest income gap of any adjoining countries in the world, with continuing tensions over migration and, for some Americans, over language.†   (source)
  • How could I ever live up to my grandfather's legacy?†   (source)
  • You see, Trudy left a little legacy.†   (source)
  • In this matter, it was the father's legacy to carry on for the son.†   (source)
  • We will accept the legacy of our ancestors," Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear.†   (source)
  • The Legacy of the Amistad Trial can be seen at the New Haven Colony Historical Society in New Haven, Connecticut.†   (source)
  • Besides the physical inheritance, they left him the legacy of service to Christ-a mantle he'd worn ever since he entered the seminary at the age of fifteen.†   (source)
  • Each store would bear her name, her legacy: LOURDES PUENTE, PROPRIETOR.†   (source)
  • A lot of the writing on Rwanda's genocide can be seen as a search for causes of the violence, with some authors emphasizing one cause, others adducing concatenations of causes, primary and secondary: colonialism's legacies (especially the propagation of the myth that Tutsis were a superior race of alien invaders); past and present violence that hardened ethnic prejudice and helped to beget further violence; political opportunism that took advantage of a largely uneducated population, imbued, some have said, with the habit of obedience; overpopulation, environmenta†   (source)
  • We didn't have time to think about legacy.†   (source)
  • Today, in the early twenty-first century, as my colleagues and I follow in the giant footsteps of Edward R. Murrow and his This I Believe staff, we are constantly reminded of the legacy we have inherited.†   (source)
  • I hear his grandson continues the legacy.†   (source)
  • My fame, my honour are legacies to the living; stay behind and let the world sip its honey from your lips.†   (source)
  • In this case the Morgenstern legacy.†   (source)
  • I was to inherit them, the legacy unfurling before me this way: you worked from before sunrise to the dead of night.†   (source)
  • From my perch as the oldest son, I have had the opportunity to see the longest and greatest impact Dad's life change and legacy have had on our earthly family, our forever family, and the world we live in.†   (source)
  • It appears to be copies of copies with legacy and remnant code scattered throughout, much of it haying nothing to do with fabber operations, per se.†   (source)
  • Confederates who said that they fought for the same goals as their forebears of 1776 would have been surprised by the intense conviction of northern soldiers that they were upholding the legacy of the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • They're concerned an attack on the homeland so late in his second term will leave an indelible stain on his legacy.†   (source)
  • I even had moments of wanting to die heroically in battle to fulfill my father's legacy or to prove the Institute wrong about my fitness as a cadet.†   (source)
  • This idea, part of Jefferson's legacy to America, written down in one of the country's noblest documents, was incompatible with the idea of legalized slavery.†   (source)
  • But this legacy of the frontiersman is not a new thing.†   (source)
  • Like the last of his letters I quoted—the one about Maria Hunt—this message had to do with a death, and like the earlier one concerning Artiste, it brought me news of what might be considered something in the nature of a legacy, or a share in one.†   (source)
  • There was a rusted car up on blocks to the right of the house, a legacy from some previous tenant.†   (source)
  • You both think I should not have refused the legacy.†   (source)
  • We all accept the need for some form of socialism to enable our people to catch up with the advanced countries of this world and to overcome their legacy of extreme poverty.†   (source)
  • To me, his commanding legacy lives in the thousands of Americans he inspired to get involved in their communities, schools, neighborhoods, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Peace Corps.†   (source)
  • This was his legacy: nothing is ever escaped.†   (source)
  • And if I get that legacy, I'm going to insist on it.   (source)
  • It was incumbent, thereafter, on each and every child to live up to that legacy.†   (source)
  • "This is the true legacy of our race," said Orik.†   (source)
  • He'd built up a legacy, he wanted to pass it on, from generation to generation.†   (source)
  • But Paul—he was so proud of that business, of defending his father's legacy.†   (source)
  • She was the inheritor of a legacy of privilege.†   (source)
  • And should a teenager be worried about his tricking legacy anyway?†   (source)
  • This is the legacy of the period covered in this book.†   (source)
  • The lock only opens when we're together, and only after your first Legacy appears.†   (source)
  • The legacy of racial profiling carries many of the same complications.†   (source)
  • She knew I'd been yearning to find ways to leave a legacy for the kids.†   (source)
  • Make sure you understand who Cecil Rhodes was and what his legacy is.†   (source)
  • And now we are poised to carry out Saunière's legacy and right a terrible wrong.†   (source)
  • After a few minutes, he took up Mishka's legacy, untied the twine, and folded back the paper.†   (source)
  • I am not leaving my grandfather's legacy in your hands.†   (source)
  • Because you needed to develop a Legacy in order to activate them.†   (source)
  • It leaves out my mother's many opportunities and the importance of her cultural legacy.†   (source)
  • Your legacy from him is the realm of infinite speculation.†   (source)
  • If I have to die, I am comforted by having Alice as a professional legacy.†   (source)
  • Yet these were the areas Mayor Schmoke knew would determine his legacy of success or failure.†   (source)
  • They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy.†   (source)
  • That unfortunate misconception is the legacy of a smear campaign launched by the early Church.†   (source)
  • The legacy of apartheid was glaringly obvious in South Africa's cities.†   (source)
  • I didn't think the Legacy would be that sensitive.†   (source)
  • I think about my major Legacy, the one that will allow me to fight.†   (source)
  • Instead, the pilots could participate in a culture and language with a very different legacy.†   (source)
  • But however long it takes, your major Legacy will be the last to develop.†   (source)
  • They come Cultural legacies are powerful forces.†   (source)
  • But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are.†   (source)
  • But you just said that this isn't part of my Legacy.†   (source)
  • It almost always comes with your first Legacy.†   (source)
  • Your first Legacy developed, you were nearly in a fight, and you left your bag in a classroom.†   (source)
  • If they aren't part of my Legacy then why have you never shown me?†   (source)
  • The Garde lead the fight, their Legacies on full display.†   (source)
  • Henri said that it's usually emotions that trigger Legacies.†   (source)
  • My Legacies are growing stronger, but they aren't strong enough to take on three Mogadorians.†   (source)
  • I knew to expect my Legacies, but I had no idea it would include this.†   (source)
  • In that way I am gaining confidence in my Legacies.†   (source)
  • Those with the Legacies are called the Garde, and those without are called Cepan, or Keepers.†   (source)
  • There were ten of them in the beginning, and they contained all Legacies within them.†   (source)
  • My Legacies haven't all emerged yet, but enough of them have.†   (source)
  • Since we're no longer on the planet, I don't know if the rest of your Legacies will come at all.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they've received their Legacies.†   (source)
  • More Legacies are supposed to come soon.†   (source)
  • Don't use your Legacies; it'll weaken you.†   (source)
  • Surely they must know we are growing stronger, coming into our Legacies.†   (source)
  • When do you think the other Legacies will develop?†   (source)
  • What point is there in having Legacies if they are never used when needed?†   (source)
  • They had hoped to kill us all well before your Legacies developed.†   (source)
  • They're desperate now because they know we're developing our Legacies.†   (source)
  • I've spent many years waiting and preparing for these things to happen, for your Legacies to arrive.†   (source)
  • I'll never be able to hit the beast by throwing the dagger, and my Legacies have all but vanished.†   (source)
  • There was one time he wanted to play a joke on me, before I knew what his Legacies were.†   (source)
  • A legacy that powerful does not disappear.†   (source)
  • I want the legacy of the Morgenstern name.†   (source)
  • It seemed a poor legacy for the memory of her name.†   (source)
  • It is not just a legacy, a future, you don't get as the youngest.†   (source)
  • He talked about the reaction of his fellow marines and the legacy of their distrust.†   (source)
  • Your legacy would be discouragement, chaos, and likely ruin.†   (source)
  • Nico knew Octavian was a legacy—a descendant of Apollo many generations removed.†   (source)
  • New Rome was all about tradition and legacies; the rules didn't change easily.†   (source)
  • The legacy of Rome is on the line—five thousand years of law, order, civilization.†   (source)
  • He told me that one of the great lessons his mother had left him was the legacy of the Golden List.†   (source)
  • The legacy of Rome is dead and buried, just like Pompeii.†   (source)
  • But his legacy had lived on, and now Warden Crawford was back where he belonged.†   (source)
  • From here to the river, only bare black trees remained, a legacy of his battle.†   (source)
  • Aren is really all I have to remember him by...My only legacy of him.†   (source)
  • You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy.†   (source)
  • Language remains a formidable frontier in the legacy of slavery.†   (source)
  • He was one of our legacies that we could be proud of, in a state hurting for them.†   (source)
  • And so Allan Rosenfield's public health legacy included two more lives saved.†   (source)
  • It was Logan's legacy to Ben, and as such it held special meaning for him.†   (source)
  • We know that if something ever happens to Phil, Jase will be right there to continue his legacy.†   (source)
  • For the name and all it held would be their legacy.†   (source)
  • "The Morgenstern legacy is blood and devastation," said Jocelyn.†   (source)
  • I think they reuse legacy codes and chop, paste and occasionally alter to fit.†   (source)
  • In many ways, Little League baseball has been my legacy and its participants "my children."†   (source)
  • He was hoping to give us knowledge, but what he actually impressed upon us was a legacy.†   (source)
  • I was too dependent on our father's legacy and protection.†   (source)
  • Triple redundancy on all the...I guess you'd call it legacy stuff.†   (source)
  • I have a legacy, and I'm going to be true to it.†   (source)
  • You'd wipe out half the demigods in the world, half the gods' legacy, to heal them?†   (source)
  • In order to create a legacy for his name.†   (source)
  • Rome will be overrun, its legacy lost forever.†   (source)
  • We tend to think of Latin America, with its legacy of machismo, as a man's world.†   (source)
  • Soon, the legacy of Rome will be destroyed for the last time!†   (source)
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