heritor
Example Sentences
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There seemed to be no direct responsibility on the part of any heritor for its upkeep, and what seemed everybody's business became nobody's.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
"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
His principal heritor was the Lord Elphinstone of the time, and unfortunately the minister and the peer were not on good terms, and always ready to annoy each other by sharp sayings or otherwise.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
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
