Example Sentences

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Sound Transit will deed to the city an additional 1.6 acres behind the new station and parking garage that adjoins the wetlands.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2016

I will deed him the Reading Railroad, the Water Works,

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2014

You say, if I will furnish you the money, you will deed me the land, and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver possession.

From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)

"Andrew, go back and tell him that if he will go to California to live I will deed him that Lassen county sugar and white pine and build him the finest mill in the state."

From Kindred of the Dust by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

You say if I furnish you the money you will deed me the land, and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver possession—Nonsense!

From Lincoln Letters by Lincoln, Abraham