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 Macdougall, W. B.

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

"Say rather in your power, dame Shirley!" rejoined he, determined to cut out the Linton heritor by one bold stroke.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

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 Mackay, Charles

She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod