Word Finder - deeds

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An action or act; something that is done.

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A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.

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Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.

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I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed.

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A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.

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I inherited the deed to the house.

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To transfer real property by deed.

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He deeded over the mineral rights to some fellas from Denver.

A man takes ownership of his deeds and acts responsibly.

Wolsey must be judged by his deeds and not by doubtful intentions.

Howie continued to tell all of us exactly what we did, relating our deeds and writings with absolute perfection.

A little later, when the rush and heat of achievement relax, we can begin to expect the appearance of grand men to celebrate in glorious poetry and prose the deeds and triumphs of the last few centuries.

Nor did he shrink from deeds of bloodshed and revenge; the assassination of his father-in-law, Niccolo Borghesi (1500), is an indelible blot upon his name.

His own children, who sign deeds along with him, use every mode except Napier, the form now adopted by the family, and which is comparatively modern.

From it have been transferred to the fireproof building of the Registry of Deeds many interesting historical documents, among them the records of the Plymouth colony, the will of Myles Standish, and the original patent.

It may be noted that it is still common to insert in mortgage deeds what is called an " attornment clause," by which the mortgagor "attorns" tenant to the mortgagee, and the latter thereupon acquires a power of distress as an additional security.

Expiating his sins was not so much his aim as to accomplish great deeds for God.

The good deeds of a just man were a natural consequence of his justice; whereas a bad man was no whit the better, because he now and then deviated into doing right.

By all real estate deeds the sale of intoxicating liquors is for ever prohibited in the city; and an act of the state legislature in 1909 prohibited the sale of intoxicating liquor within r z m.

In some of the following psalms there are still references to deeds of oppression and violence, but more generally Israel appears as happy under the law.

In some deeds relating to the parish of Chiddingfold, in Surrey, of a date not later than 1230, a grant is recorded of twenty acres of land to Lawrence " vitrearius," and in another deed, of about 1280, the " ovenhusveld " is mentioned as a boundary.

In many passages his work gives the impression of being not so much an imitation of the ancient Germanic epic, as a genuine example of it, though concerned with the deeds of other heroes than those of Germanic tradition.

I could touch it, and perhaps that made the coming of the Pilgrims and their toils and great deeds seem more real to me.

And the exile, separated from the beloved France so dear to his heart, died a lingering death on that rock and bequeathed his great deeds to posterity.

The unspeakable deeds of this animal who held us were well known to me, vicariously, through the notes of Howie's visits to his past.

His usual signature was "Jhone Neper," but in a letter written in 1608, and in all deeds signed after that date, he wrote "Jhone Nepair."

The county officials are the sheriff, a coroner, a treasurer, a register of deeds, a surveyor and five commissioners, elected for two years.

As regards the first point, it is now generally held that miracles are exceptions to the order of nature as known in our common experience; and as regards the second, that miracles are constituent elements in the divine revelation, deeds which display, the divine character and purpose; but they are signs and not merely seals of truth.

The deeds tell you who owned the place, but not what use they made of the property.

All her information is on that woman, all the good deeds she did, with nothing about the real Annie.

Perhaps, he thought, we are all owed contemplation of our actions, as a parting gift to those who succeed us so they might somehow learn from our deeds and mistakes.

He is said to have baptized the emperor Philip and his son, to have done some building in the catacombs, to have improved the organization of the church in Rome, to have appointed officials to register the deeds of the martyrs, and to have founded several churches in France.

The so-called " contracts," including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts and, most important of all, the actual legal decisions given by the judges in the law courts, exist in thousands.

By their sufferings no less than by their deeds of daring, her citizens showed themselves to be sublime, devoted and disinterested, winning the purest laurels which give lustre to Italian story.

He is the leader of a host of monkeys who aid in these supernatural deeds.

Russia had given him deeds, not words; and to Russia he committed himself.

Nezigin (" damages "), also known as Yeshu'ath (" deeds of help ").

They say we can only do many good deeds to make up for our bad deeds.

They wanted to keep it secret, they wanted to hide their evil deeds from the populace at large.

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Do people use to for wicked deeds, or for happy times?

The title deeds also describe the precise extent of the property.

Most mortgage deeds prevent you from letting without your lender's consent.

Revenue for state, county and municipal purposes is derived principally from taxes on real estate, tangible personal property, incomes in excess of $1000, wills and administrations, deeds, seals, lawsuits, banks, trust and security companies, insurance companies, express companies, railway and canal corporations, sleeping-car, parlour-car and dining-car companies, telegraph and telephone companies, franchise taxes, poll taxes, an inheritance tax and taxes on various business and professional licences.

He sang of war, and of bold rough deeds, and of love and sorrow.

Rejoice, for thou didst suffer many sorrows for these deeds !

Was he truly the only person capable of doing those wondrous deeds?

Was that it – pretty words and gentlemanly deeds?

Tunstal was as good a Catholic as Bonner; he left a different repute behind him, a clear enough indication of a difference in their deeds.

Romagna had continued a prey to anarchy ever since 1831; the government organized armed bands called the Centurioni (descended from the earlier Sanfedisti), to terrorize the Liberals, while the secret societies continued their propaganda by deeds.

Sometimes he would pass hours thinking of a certain illustrious lady, devising means of seeing her and of doing deeds that would win her favour; at other times the thoughts suggested by the books got the upper hand.

Coptic papyri mainly contain Biblical or religious texts or monastic deeds.

There is evidence to show that in the Toth century papyrus was used, to the exclusion of other materials, in papal deeds.

He calls himself most frequently manthran (" prophet"), ratu (" spiritual authority"), and saoshyant ("` the coming helper" - that is to say, when men come to be judged according to their deeds).

According to Jordanes (the epitomator of Cassiodorus's History of the Goths) at the funeral of Attila his vassals, as they rode round the corpse, sang of his glorious deeds.

His well-beloved Florentines were true sons of the church, but must crown their good deeds by despatching the criminals to Rome.

As it belongs, however, to a man's thoughts and not his deeds, it often can be proved only from suspicions.

The two deeds are similar, and the impression left by them is expressed in David's last charges to Solomon (i Kings ii.).