heritor
Example Sentences
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A new call in 1769 was signed neither by heritor, elder, or head of family.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
And, after some farther concerted arrangements, the heritor left his affianced, and proceeded to Cauldshouthers, to report to Grizelda what he had achieved.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
"Ah! hadst thou liked me less and loved me more, Through all these summer days of joy and rain, I had not now been sorrow's heritor, Or stood a lackey in the House of Pain."
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
Then shall ye be an heritor of bliss, Where all joy and mirth is.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
