heritor
Example Sentences
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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
If I quit this bright and glorious scene, without thought and gratitude to that Being who, I humbly trust, has made me an heritor of still greater things, I offend wittingly and without hope.
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
A fierce, untamed girl of primitive instincts, she was the heritor of the family temperament.
From The Sheriff's Son by William MacLeod Raine
Appanage of time put in your keeping For my far-off heritor to hear.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard
Among the persons drawn to Baldarroch by these occurrences were the heritor, the minister, and all the elders of the Kirk, under whose superintendence an investigation was immediately commenced.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
