1 Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail.
2 I never can be thankful, Mr. Bennet, for anything about the entail.
3 The son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age, and the widow and younger children would by that means be provided for.
4 As you will readily understand, a specialist who aims high is compelled to start in one of a dozen streets in the Cavendish Square quarter, all of which entail enormous rents and furnishing expenses.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient 5 He was eager that I should break the entail, and he was of opinion that it lay in my power to do so.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 6 M Dessessart, who esteemed d'Artagnan, made him offers of help, as this change would entail expenses for equipment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS 7 Once executed, they entail no further risks beyond those implied in the nature of a princedom.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 8 The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
9 Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed.
10 Ay, sir, that is a curse, entailed on Scotland by her unnatural union with a foreign and trading people.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 11 The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that the Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever.
12 Your father's estate is entailed on Mr. Collins, I think.
13 He would be the heir to the estate because that is entailed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 14 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 15 I accepted the position, and spent a month in Atlanta in performance of the duties which it entailed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIV.