heritor

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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 Hazlitt, William Carew

A young child have I For heritor; Too young to win forth From the house of his foes.—

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

Appanage of time put in your keeping For my far-off heritor to hear.

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford

In case o' failure, I fixed upon twa—May Walker, the dochter o' Gilbert Walker, an auld cattle-dealer, wha rented Langacres frae a chief heritor; and Agnes Lowrie, the dochter o' Benjamin Lowrie, feuar o' Muirbank.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

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 Cooper, James Fenimore