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I am glad to say that my reëxamination of the executorial accounts, which had so troubled the poor dying gentleman, proved his fears quite unfounded.

From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various

The Duke very properly pleaded his executorial duties; but begged his guests on no account to be disturbed by his inevitable absence.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It was friendly in the squire to give me this mass of executorial accounts to arrange.

From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various

The executorial accounts, whose terrible disarrangement I had aided, five years before, in remedying, still hung over the dying man's head, like a nightmare.

From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various

Yet now the first rush of executorial emotion is over I can begin to doubt about Boon’s intention in making me his “literary executor.”

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)