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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

I told as much to Annie, who alone knew all; and her smile, inexpressibly sweet and filled with thanks, was my sole executorial "commission."

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

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

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)

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