heritor
Example Sentences
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A fierce, untamed girl of primitive instincts, she was the heritor of the family temperament.
From The Sheriff's Son by William MacLeod Raine
I don't speak in favour of the population generally, more than I would do in favour of the merchant, or of the heritor, were it not for the truth.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
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
In 1740, Mr Oliphant, as almost sole heritor, intruded the Rev. John M'Leish into the parish, in opposition to the wishes of a large majority of the people.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
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
