heritor
Example Sentences
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"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
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
So you see, madam, this gentleman is the true and sole heritor of all the land that your father possesses, with all the rents thereof for the last twenty years, and upwards.
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
This Herod knew one born should be, One born should be of true lineage, That should be right heritor; For he but by the Emperor Was made by usurpage.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
