And he never would have gone to work if his modest inheritance had not run out at the age he supposed his life would.

But they do have money, dividends from a family business or perhaps a modest inheritance, and they want to do good with it.

He supported his family with a modest inheritance from his uncle.

In 1883 her father died, leaving her a modest inheritance to live on.

My father had died, and I had a modest inheritance.

He became a venture capitalist, engaging in restructuring insolvent companies, and built a fortune out of a modest inheritance.

He in turn is bullied by his uncle, who controls Boris's modest inheritance.

I received a modest inheritance from an aunt and wished to give some portion of it to charity.

James died twenty years after he married Sara, and left the bulk of his estate to her, with only a modest inheritance for Franklin.

He lived as a cloistered scholar, supported by his modest inheritance.